If somebody really likes music or spends time and money on it, I think what they like can absolutely say something about them.
I always thought Hornby's take was incredibly presumptive of a world without subcultures, or in which subcultures don't mean anything. Lots of people are in some ways defined by the music they like. People live e…
If somebody really likes music or spends time and money on it, I think what they like can absolutely say something about them.
I always thought Hornby's take was incredibly presumptive of a world without subcultures, or in which subcultures don't mean anything. Lots of people are in some ways defined by the music they like. People live entire lives based on this. Or spend their weekends or every waking minute based on it.
And that isn't surprising with Hornby because his musical worldview was basically a completely middlebrow 'I own an Outkast album cumbaya all genres are wonderful' with no depth or exploration in his tastes whatsoever.
If somebody really likes music or spends time and money on it, I think what they like can absolutely say something about them.
I always thought Hornby's take was incredibly presumptive of a world without subcultures, or in which subcultures don't mean anything. Lots of people are in some ways defined by the music they like. People live entire lives based on this. Or spend their weekends or every waking minute based on it.
And that isn't surprising with Hornby because his musical worldview was basically a completely middlebrow 'I own an Outkast album cumbaya all genres are wonderful' with no depth or exploration in his tastes whatsoever.
Fair enough, but I don't think liking the Beatles or Infinte Jest makes you a bad person.
Absolutely not. Judging people morally for their music tastes is dumb, I completely agree with you.