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| quote: | Originally posted by Seandroid
I didn't say you had to like him, I said you can't say he's untalented because that's just factually untrue.
And by preemptively wanting to hate something, I mean it's just like people who hate Apple products.
You can't "hate" them because they're good products, if you like Android phones it's impossible for you to HATE iPhones because they're way too similar. You can prefer one over the other but you can't hate it. The only reason people "hate" iPhones is the same reason people "hate" Deadmau5.
They want to hate them because they're popular, and they get some kind of personal satisfaction out of being the "cool indie kids who don't listen to popular music." It's no different than the hipsters that refuse to listen to anything on the radio because they're "sellouts."
If you don't like electro or progressive house then you won't like Deadmau5 and that's fine, but not liking a genre of music doesn't give you the right to act like the producer is horrible, untalented and rapes kittens, like some people on here do.
If you don't like him, that's your prerogative, but to ask people not to talk about him on a music discussion forum is ridiculous. |
The iPhone surely is a revolutionary product and has all the features I crave for in a phone, if I only had the money, I'd personally grab one right away. I do not however have some personal conquest to attain coolness through some arrogant Indie kid image, as you stated in your iPhone analogy, (by hating something to suck up to the TA bandwagon). Even if you sent me a sample of a deadmau5 tune and renamed it with a different artist, it would recieve the same censure, so your iPhone analogy can get fucked.
My criticism is based purely on honesty and experience based on what my ears have absorbed for the past 10 years through exposure to electronic dance music. Using Bach as a comparison however, is the equivalent of comparing a grand piano to a dirty block of wood. I have lived to watch the decay of various genres throughout the EDM spectrum like many others here; most producers have gained their fame, the other passionate portion are still crawling through the muddy battlefield with one arm.
The funny thing is, when I know I could almost imitate his sound through cracked software in at least an hour, this is when I can safely confirm that he is the McDonalds of electro-house music. I have heard better. Apparently my ears tell me that, not my ego.
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