Genres vs. Fanbases.

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Ok, this has kinda plagued me for the last 8 years. I like a lot of different kinds of music, but I hate most of the pseudo-counterculturalists that make up their fanbases, like, for example: I like Slayer, but I don't like metalheads. I like punk rock, but I hate punkers. I like some techno, but I want to kill all the ravers.

Am I alone here?

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Monday, 2 December 2002 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

― JasonD (JasonD), Monday, 2 December 2002 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

what easily classified subculture IS appealing? They're all defined by their indulgences.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 2 December 2002 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Yer not alone at all, but I don't so much hate as blissfully ignore.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 December 2002 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Think about the question this way: what group of human beings, defined by a common enthusiasm, musical or not, do you find appealing? Are you any keener on humanity in general? Why should cross-sections of it based on record purchases be any better than the whole? Some people suck, yes, but it doesn't stop them listening to music.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 2 December 2002 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Helltime, I think you have answered your own question, in a manner of speaking. As Anthony points out, easily pigeon-holed people who like as not listen to music because they want its identity rather than for the actual pleasure of hearing it tend to be rather shallow and dull. I'm sure there are some "punkers" out there who simply derive no pleasure from any music without, say, jello biafra involved with it. However, I suspect that many more obvious "punkers" simply pick their music based on the number of belt-chains between band members and the baldness of the singer's head. Refusal to appreciate more than one type of music denotes laziness, narrow-mindedness and fear in my experience.

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 2 December 2002 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't understand the mechanics of questions like this -- how exactly are you engaging with these fanbases?

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 2 December 2002 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Funnily enough I started to like all sorts of people and stopped listening to music altogether.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 2 December 2002 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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