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Originally Posted by humndislocation
Because you don't need to be particularly musically talented to make a piece of music that someone else enjoys. Christ, the Mr. Blobby song went to number 1, that says it all.
Oh, and if you're going to claim that a talented musician is someone who WRITES a piece of music that someone else enjoys, then that rules out a lot of people in pop music, being as they don't write their own music. I'm sure a lot of the session musicians that write the music are actually talented, however they don't really use that talent particularly well when writing simple pop music. Yeah, they're using their talent to write commercial music that your average Joe will like, but they're certainly not using their talent to write an intelligent piece of music.
I don't understand why people have difficulty accepting that some people are just plain better at writing music than others. If I make a shitty photoshop that makes someone laugh, and a lot of people like it, does that mean that it's as good a work of art as the mona lisa? Of course not, and anyone who would think that it is, clearly has been smoking too much.
Hey a lot of people liked the robot costume I made for halloween, that means I'm now a great scupltor, right up there with Michelangelo. Sweeeeet.
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All you keep proving with these posts is your own arrogance. Something that is technically complex but unenjoyable is crap. There is no defence for it regardless how much musical knowledge it took to write.
Accepting that as truth there is therefore only one way of judging music. Is it enjoyed by someone? If so, it is good music. Regardless of it's technical complexity or the people who like it.
If about 10 people in the entire world like it, it's still good music because someone likes it. By the same logic if the vast majority of people like it, it's good music because people like it. Neither is superiour to the other.
Please don't interpret this to mean that the more people like a type of music the better it is. I'm merely saying it's not bad music.
And FYI Session musicians don't write Jack Shit. They perform the pieces of music that are handed to them.