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Jah Lush Wrote:

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> DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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> > I think prejudice and taste are the same thing.

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> Then you're sadly misguided.


Not really. prejudice can be defined as 'a preconceived preference or idea'. If someone decides they don't like a genre of music in it's entirety...so for arguments sake let's say R'n'B, then they'll never listen to any new R'n'B because they've already decided they don't like it - that's a preconceived idea.....and often that dislike isn't really based on any meaningful in depth exploration of that genre anyway. It's perfectly ok though...most people listen to music for fun and like music they feel affects them, or reflects them. That why there are so many different kinds of music and so many kinds of 'taste'...... ;-)


*crossed posts with Otta - but he/she makes the same point*

Every genre we dislike will probably have something, some example song which we'd really like, that doesn't make the genre any better than we originally thought, it just shows there's probably good in every genre. Which we know already.


But we're not all going to spend our time searching through comparatively 'low return' genres in the hope of finding the track or band which will convert us. There just isn't time, especially when you get past teenybop years.


I luckily have friends that filter stuff for me and lend me good music (in their opinion) and I can make up my own mind, meanwhile I have half a dozen genres which I'm still feverishly pursuing and where I find most of my musical satisfaction.

I see where you're coming from DJKQ and I take your point, though I think Otta put it better and more simply. It's true that some people just shut their ears because they don't like "that kind of music" no matter what "that" kind of music may be.

As to my own "taste" it is very eclectic and in that if I like something I like it. If I don't, I don't, no matter what genre it is from. I'm broad church and I'm broader than Broadway.


Anyway... time for lunch. dum di dum di dum. Have a pleasant afternoon.

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