This, in itself, is why reviews can be borderline impossible. To subjectively critique rock music is a joke and anyone who can look you straight in the face and say they know better about music is a idiot. I've more or less decided that I know what music I like and whether what I like is "good" in other peoples' minds is irrelevant. Music is about personal connection with the sound and emotion, and if its not there for you, its not there. I think most hipsters like the likes at Pitchfork miss that point completely. Music isn't about one-upping your friends on obscurity and garbage like that. It is about enjoyment and it is high time people get off their high horses and start to realize these things.
Erik Gonzalez said on June 30, 2008:
This, in itself, is why reviews can be borderline impossible. To subjectively critique rock music is a joke and anyone who can look you straight in the face and say they know better about music is a idiot. I've more or less decided that I know what music I like and whether what I like is "good" in other peoples' minds is irrelevant. Music is about personal connection with the sound and emotion, and if its not there for you, its not there. I think most hipsters like the likes at Pitchfork miss that point completely. Music isn't about one-upping your friends on obscurity and garbage like that. It is about enjoyment and it is high time people get off their high horses and start to realize these things.