We are all victims of the tendency to categorize things.
Are you a metal player? That category might make me never care to listen to your music, but on the other hand, maybe it's great and I'd love it! I can at the very least recognize greatness, even if I'm not supposedly into the genre.
Do you create orchestral or film music? I'd probably overreact in the direction of loving it, but maybe I shouldn't. Maybe the best thing to be would be 'take it with a grain of salt - not everyone needs to be John Williams?
Blues? Well, is it really necessary for everyone to mimic Albert King? Or Bonamassa, Clapton and Stevie Ray?
You see where I'm taking this. Categories can be very limiting filters that prevent us from using our ears to decide what we want to listen to. Maybe it's better to have fewer categories and more openness.
In the bad old days of AM radio, there were stations that played a little of everything: Rock, Motown, Metal, Jazzier stuff. Maybe that wasn't such a bad thing.
Then again, what are your thoughts?
Are you a metal player? That category might make me never care to listen to your music, but on the other hand, maybe it's great and I'd love it! I can at the very least recognize greatness, even if I'm not supposedly into the genre.
Do you create orchestral or film music? I'd probably overreact in the direction of loving it, but maybe I shouldn't. Maybe the best thing to be would be 'take it with a grain of salt - not everyone needs to be John Williams?
Blues? Well, is it really necessary for everyone to mimic Albert King? Or Bonamassa, Clapton and Stevie Ray?
You see where I'm taking this. Categories can be very limiting filters that prevent us from using our ears to decide what we want to listen to. Maybe it's better to have fewer categories and more openness.
In the bad old days of AM radio, there were stations that played a little of everything: Rock, Motown, Metal, Jazzier stuff. Maybe that wasn't such a bad thing.
Then again, what are your thoughts?
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