What’s Wrong With Pop Music?

Music fans, ima let you finish but Taylor Swift is the catchiest pop artist in RECENT MEMORY! IN RECENT MEMORY!

(Kanye fans, ignore that joke in the caption.  I love me some Kanye West.  You will see this when I inevitably review his album.  I’ll also probably find a way to mention him in this post.  Wait and see).

Here at Nick Reviews, I pride myself on being an average music fan rather than a snobby, elitist blogger.  I freak out over albums.  I post on fansites and forums on a very regular basis.  And unlike the average blogger, I try to only post things that I like.  I mean, if I’m looking forward to reviewing something and it’s horrible, I’ll probably still review it.  But that’s very unlikely.

One thing I notice while posting on forums and browsing the internet is this distaste for recent popular music.  This is especially common among “indie” music fans.  The radio = bad.  If more than ten people have heard it, it’s bad.  (Okay, that’s a definite underestimate and not everyone is like that, but you get the point).  In this post I plan on addressing this point of view and exactly how wrong it is.  I probably just lost half of my readers with that statement (don’t leave, 10 people!  I love you!)  but I’m CONTROVERSIAL!  Not really, but click on “read more” to view my extended opinions on the matter.

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The Beauty of Musical Opinion

This should be everyone's attitude towards music.

Today I’m gonna talk about something that has been bothering me for years…and that is the issue of insulting people for their musical opinion.  Too many times on internet message boards have I been told my opinion was wrong, and that I was stupid and needed to listen to more music.  Well, not only is it ridiculous to say these kind of things, I think people need to learn to celebrate the fact that people have differing opinions, not get angry at others for feeling a different way.

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The Death of the Album

Since I haven’t been listening to much music this week, I figured i’d skip “Records of the Week” and post something different for a change.

I know I might (well, definitely) be beating a dead horse here so to speak, I think it’s worth mentioning this subject, especially my own thoughts on it.  Besides, most people who are reading this are going to be my personal friends (as, sadly, Facebook is the place that draws the most views to the blog so far) and not all of them think about this (i hope anyways) and maybe they’ll take something from it.

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