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Really, I think that this can go either way. It can really open you up, or close you down. So, I suppose I'm a bit torn as to whether or not it's a good thing. For me, I feel it's turned out pretty well.
TA has managed to single-handedly open my eyes up to many genres I would have never bothered exploring before... and much of this was undoubtedly due to the overwhelming amounts of cynacism aimed at the genre that brought me here in the first place. I hate to admit it, because it makes me sound flimsy and malleable, but it's true. All the cynacism has affected my musical taste, over time... but, not because I'm trying to conform to some "elitist" group of musical snobbery or see how far off the beaten path I can go. It's because I figured that there had to be something to it all. And, there was.
However, the problem is that I got to the point where, every once in a while, I had to actually step back and examine myself, and go "am I rejecting this song because I dislike it, or because I'm not 'supposed' to like it." That, my friends, is fucking silly. Thankfully, I realized all this, and now I just listen to the music that I like. You just have to make sure that you don't get caught up in all the snobbery for snobbery's sake. I'm glad for this process overall, though, because I learned a lot from it and am now a lot more open-minded about music than I was several years ago.
It's almost like there's a process you have to go through: closed-minded, to open-minded, to closed-minded, to open-minded... though, some people never make it to that last one. Overall, I'd say that all the criticism of the genre (or any genre, really) is a good thing, so long as you end up appreciating music for what it is or what it does for you, and not for what you think you should or shouldn't like.
Now, I realize that you're probably more referring to the way trance criticized, not that it is.
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