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It’s OK to Dismiss this Genre of Music

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When people say I don’t like ______________ music, I always cringe. I cringe because I think dismissing entire genres of music is silly. If we start with the caveat that 85% of ALL music is crap, it stands to reason that a significant portion of any given genre will also…be crap. But the truth is that there are gems to be found in all kinds of music. Country is not my favorite kind of music. But do I think there’s good–even great–country out there? Of course. I know there are people out there making country with craft and care.

Electronica is a genre I have a love-hate relationship with. Some of it sounds as if toddlers have been left alone in a room full of synthesizers. But the good stuff can range from ethereal to booty-shake-inducing. In other words, it’d be a huge mistake to say “All electronica is crap.” And I feel that way about just about every kind of music you can think of…except for hair band metal.

I am married to a spectacular person. A spectacular person with spectacularly bad taste in music. When we were on our to Arizona, hubby had control of the radio because he was driving. (I think that’s only fair: driver gets control of music.) He enjoys listening to the hair band station on Sirius. And a shittier assortment of music you will never hear. Think this is music snobbery? It’s not. I’m the person who calls out knee-jerk assertions that all Top 40 is bad. I don’t dislike music that is popular or accessible. But I guess that’s my problem with the hair bands of the mid-80’s/early 90’s–their music was simply SO BAD, so joyless, so cynical, so devoid of craft or cleverness, so replete with smarm–it simply wasn’t accessible. It’s just bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad music.

This is Spinal Tap was a parody, but it really wasn’t. Otherwise this clip wouldn’t perfectly encapsulate the work of all the hair bands of yesteryear:

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