What happened to diversity and appreciation for all music genres?

[ughethan]

See I have many friends who hate that I love country music. I could sit here and listen to The Dixie Chicks, Miranda Lambert, and Sugarland until I am blue in the face. Then again, I could do the same with Lana Del Rey and The XX. Or Alt-j, or XXYYXX, OR even some rap etc. My point is, I'm fairly diverse. Why is it nobody seems to be these days? I have the Essential Dixie Chicks and Lana De Rey's Paradise on a playlist right now.

[Aves]

Nothing "happened". People have always had genres they didn't like. Different strokes for different folks. I personally am not a big fan of country, but is that because something happened? No. I always have enjoyed listening to more punk oriented music. Just how I am. Everyone's music taste is different.

[ughethan]

Nothing "happened". People have always had genres they didn't like. Different strokes for different folks. I personally am not a big fan of country, but is that because something happened? No. I always have enjoyed listening to more punk oriented music. Just how I am. Everyone's music taste is different.

Yes, but look at teens. Literally nobody has tolerance for anything but what's popular at the moment. I know very few who will find music that's good and genuinely appreciate it. No, let me rephrase this. If you listen to anything outside of the strict conformation that popular music consists of nobody will listen to it. The point that I make is obviously not coming across.

[Typhlosion]

Yes, but look at teens. Literally nobody has tolerance for anything but what's popular at the moment. I know very few who will find music that's good and genuinely appreciate it. No, let me rephrase this. If you listen to anything outside of the strict conformation that popular music consists of nobody will listen to it. The point that I make is obviously not coming across. Those are the rules of pop. In the 80's nobody wanted to know about disco anymore. In the 90's nobody wanted to know about glam. Who the heck still listens to Gangnam Style? Nobody gives a damn about grunge or synthpop anymore. Nobody as in not the general population. The difference is the mass production of singles and the speed they keep popping up: people are much less restricted and so can have shorter "liking spans".

As to outside of pop, maybe they're diverse within some genre? Like rock which includes Alternative, Hard, Punk, Indie, Progressive and so on. So liking 'only rock' could mean 50 artists they listen to between 5-10 styles. I only listen to Metal, period. On the outside, that isn't diverse at all. That is, some Heavy, Sludge, Stoner, Power, Progressive, Thrash, Death, Technical Death, Djent, Melodic Death Metal... and so on. Plus, they're all very distinguishable.

[MortimerB]

Sadly, many now proclaim themselves dictators of taste, and their taste is the only one that matters and bears any weight. This is especially frustrating to someone like me who listens to - quoting of my iPod - : Eminem, Adele, My Chemical Romance, Muse, Slipknot, Metallica, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Avenged Sevenfold, Meshuggah, Robbies Williams and more! And I find it sad, how many people don't see the beauty of every music genre.

Yet again, music can be compared to food... Just because you like a japalenos, doesn't mean you like chili. Everyone is entitled to their own musical taste and small quirks in this regard but they better not tell you that your opinion upon music is of any less value than theirs.

[Syvelocin]

Yep, just history repeating itself. Although I've held the opinion that pop music is actually going in both directions. I think good pop music is getting better (compared to pop music from the previous two decades. Pre-90s pop music would be an unfair comparison methinks) and I think bad pop music has reached a record-breaking level of shit. *cough* Nicki Minaj

I hate country. Can't stand it. But I could say the same thing and say "y u no like dark cabaret?" although I don't because no one except me and the people I meet at concerts listens to dark cabaret. People aren't going to appreciate what they have never heard of or don't understand. I would ask why there seems to have been a surge in intolerance and ignorance in all areas of interest, although I think it's because people are becoming more vocal, not that these things didn't exist before.

[AlexOnToast]

I'm afraid Popularity does not encompass diversity. Always has been that way, probably always will.

[DarkHorse4eva]

my whole class and a very lot of friends hate that i love Nickelback :/

[grossgod11]

For me I only listen to rock based music and pre-rock sort of music, its what I grew up with, its what I love, and its what I stick to. I generally can't stand most modern music at all. Then again if I had to pick one modern artist who's actually impressed me would be Lorde which is weird cause I usually hate anything that uses a computer to make it sound better. She's my age and she came from a place where its hard to make it big I give props to that.

[Karkat]

Yes, but look at teens. Literally nobody has tolerance for anything but what's popular at the moment. I know very few who will find music that's good and genuinely appreciate it. No, let me rephrase this. If you listen to anything outside of the strict conformation that popular music consists of nobody will listen to it. The point that I make is obviously not coming across.

Ah, but see, older generations did this as well, just with their music instead of ours.

Remember that The Beatles were once the quintessential boy band, Buddy Holly and Rick Springfield were like the (infinitely cooler, and way less tacky) equivalent of Justin Bieber back in the day.

Thing is, this sort of thing has been happening for decades. It's not really new. Is it unfortunate? Yes. (Has the general quality of popular music gone down? Well that's subjective but it's also pretty freaking obvious.) Is it new? Not at all.

my whole class and a very lot of friends hate that i love Nickelback :/

Boo Nickelback!

Just kidding. I don't get why so many people hate them/Chad Kroeger. Yeah, they're popular. They're catchy. They may not be the greatest music ever but comparing them to Justin Bieber is just low. Come on now. Justin Bieber used to actually have some semblance of talent, and he threw it away to make godawful....Whatever his music is considered.