The evolution of your music taste

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Originally Posted by whatswiththeheadbands?

That so true. I read a YouTube comment that sums that up:

'Classic music artists made Music for Music's sake
Modern music artists make Music for money's sake

Make Music for Music's sake, not Money's sake'.

I don't agree with this at all. Again: I don't care about the circumstances of music's creation. If I enjoy a song, then I don't care if they made it for money or whatever.

Modern pop music is just the equivalent/extension of folk music 200 years ago, and no one is trying to make folk music illegitimate. Music for the masses. It's just that nowadays the masses should preferably pay for their music, whereas they didn't have to 200 years ago (I presume? I don't know, they probably did, whatever), and this commercializes music.

In the end, music for the masses always existed, and it's all fine by me. I don't like pretensions anyway. There's great art music, there's great pop music. Great music is great music, no matter the circumstances