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Originally Posted by NoWave
If 99% of people like a piece of music and you don't, that's fine.
If you then think that the other 99% are wrong, congratulations, you're a tool.
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By your logic, britney spears is more talented than Wagner. If you think that, then quite frankly, you're retarded.
The majority of people will just buy what's fashionable, or whatever facile love song is popular at the moment. Devin Townsend is more talented than just about everything in the charts, but he's completely unknown outside alternative music circles. I could say this for a lot of bands. Therion for example, more talented than 90% of what's popular, but unheard of outside of metal circles.
Just look at the way most slate metal, based purely on the fact it's not fashionable. Most people overlook the complexity of the music entirely, based purely on the fact that
some metal bands use shouty vocals. Even then, many of the bands that have shouty vocals, play very complex and classically influenced music.
That's not to say that a lot of bands aren't unpopular for a good reason of course.