“WE BEGAN TO DEFINE OUR COOLNESS WITH HOW LITTLE THE BANDS WE LIKE WERE KNOWN.”
So let me remind you: Sure we all have the freedom to be critics. And by all means do. I encourage it, especially that as people who are at a very vulnerable age, it would be good for us to filter which things to take in. As I have to admit that, yes, there are a lot of bad existing albums out there. There is a very huge gap between being a critic and a hater, though, and to judge music by solely basing them on a criterion that discriminates not the artist or the music itself--but the people who enjoy it--may be indicative of really bad taste. Elitism represents one kind of hindrance we encounter in our never-ending fight for progress. It spurts the growth of people against the direction
which music could lead them to. Instead of appreciating the variety and making the most out of it, we keep pushing others downward. Thus, the whole process just becomes counterproductive. This does not just hold true in the elitism we see in soap operas where the Donyas and the Dons prohibit their children from falling in love with poorer people. In a more realistic and less melodramatic situation, we see elitism here as we exhibit our most undeniable contempt towards those who are just different from who we are in terms of how many bands we know. And honestly? It isn’t very YOLO of us.
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