Is it more common for people to almost exclusively listen to one genre or to listen to a broad range of genres? I'm not trying to put myself out as some special fucking snowflake, but I have trouble understanding those who will only listen to one type of music and that only.
>>63950340
You listen to 78 different types of rock, 5 waifu popstars AND memerap?
its particularly interesting with the contrast to movies
very common for someone to simply watch basically new releases but if you do that with music people look at you like a freak
genre whores are far more common in music than movies
>>63950361
Don't talk shit about my memerap, buddy.
>>63950362
Lots of people just listen to whatever p4k or Fantano tells them to, be it rock, rap, pop or electronica
>>63950389
>genre whores are far more common in music than movies
well do you agree that genre whores are far more common in music than movies?
>>63950426
I don't know, I don't pay enough attention to the habits of the average moviegoer to make a comparison.
3-4 genres at most, not counting some sub sub genre shit, otherwise its way too hard to keep up with new releases and stuff.
people that say they listen to "everything" have a basic taste and never dig deeper into anything so basically most people on /mu/.
Some statistics on this kinda thing would be interesting, I guess.
>>63950340
I actually prefer people who stick to one genre and know it very well. than p4k/anthony kids who claim to listen to everything but know fuck all besides what reviews tell them.
Jai paul claims to only listen to mj,bjork,j dilla and his stuff is banging.Friend of mine only listens to hardcore and he's an expert in his genre which I respect very much.
Theres nothing wrong with only listening to a couple of genres, people who use ''eclecticism'' as a badge of supposed superiority is stupid.
I see this a lot with hip-hop, metal, EDM, pop-punk, country and "screamo" fans. I have no idea why it seems to be just those genres, either.
That said, I don't think these faggots are right. I think it's fine if you primarily listen to one genre of music-- great, you may very well be an expert. But that doesn't mean that you'd necessarily have better taste than someone who regurgitates what p4k and Anthony Fanthony feed them. I enjoy MANY genres of music-- I don't care what the genre is, as long as I enjoy the music. And after listening to a lot of good music, your ear begins to perk up on those special songs that tickle your fancy. THAT'S the sensation I'm after when I listen to music. Whether that's through new-age ska punk, bebop or fucking Inuit throat singing, whatever. Good music is good music. If you have good taste, you should be able to recognize it when you hear it.
>>63951831
Insecurity the post
>>63951831
everyone has a better taste in music than people that regurgitates what p4k and Anthony Fanthony feed them desu
>>63950387
I'm not your buddy, pal.
>>63950340
Don't really know, most of the people I know listens to many genres, but I use to go with people who knows many about music and have music as a big part of their lives.
I think that the mayoritie of people likes only one or two genres
>>63951865
says the tripfag looking for attention and recognition from autists on a chinese cartoon imageboard
>>63952627
I'm not a tripfag but nice try :)
CLT (only listened to rock and then classical for appearances)
JTG (only listens to jazz)
Turny (only listens to electronic)
>>63950340
>Is it more common for people to almost exclusively listen to one genre or to listen to a broad range of genres?
THE FIRST
The idea that your musical taste is just one in a world with many different music tastes, and people need to make music for other tastes, so you will have alot of stuff that sucks, because it was made by another person.
A priest will not like porn, but porn was not made to him, it was made for people with other kinds of musical taste.
This is a thing many RYMers don't get and complain when you have many albums with a low score.
Many other guys also dont get this, and complain about today music, because there is so much stuff out there (those fuckers usually say bullshit like "quality over quantity")
>>63952712
>CLT (only listened to rock and then classical for appearances)
>Turny (only listens to electronic)
(not true by the way)
>JTG (only listens to jazz)
>>63950340
Do you mean genre or subgenre?
Rock is a genre (that includes meal, punk, emo etc) for example.
>>63951831
>mfw reading that post
>>63950340
I listen to a LOT of different genres, counting sub-genres it's probably close to triple digits.
Having said that I'm very invested in genres like hardcore punk and screamo, reason being that it has relevance to both emotional states, political convictions and social life.
Which brings me to why people listen to, say, only one genre: it has relevance to them.
Someone who lives for the weekend and is heavily invested in weeding out the best techno nights probably won't be invested in listening to hip hop in his free time. Look at the people in /bleep/, for example.
What is a possible trend is that people who listen to a lot of different genres without feeling particularly attached to any one genre haven't found a genre that has particular relevance to their lives.
Which is fine, it's simply an observation.
>>63952847
THIS desu, theres only 3 genres.
Art
Pop
Folk
>>63952899
>>63950389
>Lots of people just listen to whatever p4k or Fantano tells them to, be it rock, rap, pop or electronica
This is not what happens.
The thing is that many of those p4k readers only know the bands mtv show and usual radio show (because they dont research).
Those guys, then, discover p4k (while at the same time not user other methods of research) and so add this third place to his catalog of "musical exposure places".
So they only have those 3 places to show them music (mtv/tv, usual radio stations and p4k), this means that 1/3 of the bands they discover will be from pitchfork (actually its WAY more since p4k shows WAY more music per month than mtv or usual radios).
In the end, since you can only listen to what you know, they will listen to only stuff from those places and most of their stuff will come from stuff p4k told them that exist.
Add a bunch of guys in the exact same situation and you have something that looks like a group of p4k drones.
Also whats makes this entire thing worse is that many of those guys mostly check the top rated p4k things. Now, with that they will mostly know (and so be able to listen to) stuff p4k rated with a good score
>>63952847
No, there is more differences between rock and metal than between rock and funk or rock and folk or metal and techno... There is no point in consider punk or metal as subgenres.
>>63952918
>Also whats makes this entire thing worse is that many of those guys mostly check the top rated p4k things. Now, with that they will mostly know (and so be able to listen to) stuff p4k rated with a good score
Well there is a daily p4k countdown thread, I think a lot of the people in those threads every day really do this.
Plus if some news happens and its first on p4k, you'll get 70 threads with p4k screenshots too.
>>63952933
lol
Punk and metal are rock subs, there is objectively no other way of looking at it.
>more differences between rock and metal than between rock and funk or rock and folk or metal and techno
oh you were trolling, k
>>63951831
Spot on
>>63952974
Not trolling, I work making all of that genres playing, composing and producing it, if you take an instrument and start to play you will see that if you dont consider punk for example as a genre there is no reason to consider a genre soul, country, pop...
>>63951831
I agree with pretty much everything but I'm just a little confused: how could someone who gets their music from p4k be considered to have good taste if that's the only place they get their music from?
