I know I’ve mentioned this on here before at least once, but I’m going to mention it again because it still pisses me off and I keep hearing it more and more nowadays.

Judging others by their musical tastes makes you look dumb.

Almost everywhere you go, especially on the internet, you’ll hear people judge one another based upon their musical tastes.

On YouTube:

On Facebook:

And on Failblog as well.

All I have to say is this: who freaking cares?

Music is subjective, people. It’s a form of art, like paintings or sculpture or pieces of lit. I don’t hear people going around berating each other because one dude likes Hemingway and some other dude likes Stephen King (okay, maybe with some of my friends I hear that, but it’s not nearly as common as “OMG u leik justn beeber ur a horable prsn go die in a fyre!!!111one!”).

Is it because music is just so exposed? It’s everywhere? Or is it because it’s something that everyone likes? I don’t think I’ve ever come across anyone who’s said they didn’t like music. Everyone likes music. Maybe it’s just something that’s so personal and so tied in with who you are that it’s easy to get overly defensive about it and kind of polarize music into “good” and “bad”.

But still, people…think about how stupid it is to judge others based on what conglomeration of sounds they prefer over others.

Unless they don’t like Sleepyhead. Then you can give them crap. ;)