Here’s a though for all you people who like to say, “I CAN’T IMAGINE THIS SORT OF MUSIC YOU ENJOY WILL BE AROUND IN A HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS HUUUUURRRRRR!”

Have considered how full of hubris that is? How arrogant? How completely self-centred and full of pride? To jump from I do not like this music … to … this music is not of a sort to have any lasting significance? Do you not see the only connection between those two thoughts is… you? Are you really going to set yourself up as the arbiter of what will and will not stand your vaunted test of time?

Have you also considered that the test of time is no test of greatness? It’s only a test of its supposed worth at the time, that many copies were made and thus endure. Or it’s a fluke. Maybe that piece of music from near the beginning of time was a piece of crap; you don’t know.

All you can say is that on average a more popular piece of music is copied more times and is more likely to pass into history intact.

Which leads me to this: you’re not only the arbiter of what will survive by virtue of your own taste, but what will survive from a historical standpoint is what’s popular. Can you see how you’re full of shit?

Tags: crap, dubious logic, music