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where someone who shall remain nameless wrote this:

"What annoys me the most is people who know how the, ahem, songs go, and therefore are fooled into thinking that cause they know it, they like it. I suspect very strongly that this is the reason there's so much repetitive pap in the charts...the non-thinker has it going round in their head cause there's no escape from it, and ends up buying it."

Now, to me this is so *wrong* and makes me so mad that I feel like ripping my eyes out and eating them but I can't quite articulate why. Can someone please turn my instinctive objections to the above nonsense into a lucid argument.

― Venga, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As opposed to the thinker who has carefully worked out why they like a piece of music which has no memorable qualities and can feel smugly superior to the mindless sheep who happens to buy it because it has a tune. First rule of conning someone, let them think they haven't been fooled.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know much about art, but I know what I like. Oh, wait. That's an argument FOR the other guy. ..or IS it?

― Dave225, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, it is a statement of vast over-simplification and obnoxious hyperbole, but I'd be lying if I said that I completely
― static, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops!... make that "completely" disagree with it. It is possible. Something like this does happen, and most of us have witnessed it firsthand. Assuming that people really do care, when maybe they don't, is an equally grievous error, I should think. That said, the tone is rather unconstructive and condescending - an attitude rarely of any use to anyone involved.

― static, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)