I've seen a lot of people ridiculed for their taste in drum and bass, not just here but particularly online and on youtube videos as well.
Now there's loads of people who don't listen to drum and bass at all; some listen to jazz, others hip hop or metal, so usually it's just accepted that some people will want to listen to one kind of music or another.
Most sensible people don't mock ska musicians or whatever for their taste in music, because its simply pointless to try to criticise people for having an opinion of what music is good and what is bad. Ridiculing someone for liking jazz is like ridiculing someone for liking marmite or anchovies.
So why within drum and bass should the same not apply? If people want to listen to Pendulum or Clipz I don't see what the problem is if they enjoy the music.
Indeed, I've seen many examples where someone's first introduction to dnb is Pendulum, and surely if this introduces people to the scene it can only be a good thing? There's definitely no harm in enjoying a piece of music, that's what it was made for. Just because someone wants to listen to jump up but not dark/neuro, does that make them somehow lesser to those who do the opposite? Not at all. And if they've not heard a drum and bass tune from before 2000, does that make them not 'leet' & 'hardcore' enough to enjoy and discuss the music? It shouldn't
I've seen this kind of egotism before, and I vividly remember how prevalent it was in the metal scene (and undoubtedly still is), particularly in the 'underground' black metal circles. In these cultures, people even go to great lengths to make their music obscure, hard to find and sometimes atonal, just to keep it 'grim' and elite. Any group that is too 'soft' or not evil or dark enough is simply dismissed. Music that slightly deviates from the format is classed as pussy emo music. It's pathetic and makes me sick with general distaste for the human race. I'm sorry but that's how I feel, because arrogance and elitism and two things that I find unforgivable. One could even consider the similarities between this kind of elitism and civil rights issues of the past decade.
Drum and bass is getting bigger and bigger all the time, especially here in the UK where it has already touched the mainstream and gets regular plays on radio one. There is no better way to kill what is such a diverse and exciting genre than by strangling it and forcing it to be this or that, forcing it to fit to a certain criteria. One of the reasons drum and bass has developed so well is because it hasn't been afraid to take influences from other genres.
rant over
Now there's loads of people who don't listen to drum and bass at all; some listen to jazz, others hip hop or metal, so usually it's just accepted that some people will want to listen to one kind of music or another.
Most sensible people don't mock ska musicians or whatever for their taste in music, because its simply pointless to try to criticise people for having an opinion of what music is good and what is bad. Ridiculing someone for liking jazz is like ridiculing someone for liking marmite or anchovies.
So why within drum and bass should the same not apply? If people want to listen to Pendulum or Clipz I don't see what the problem is if they enjoy the music.
Indeed, I've seen many examples where someone's first introduction to dnb is Pendulum, and surely if this introduces people to the scene it can only be a good thing? There's definitely no harm in enjoying a piece of music, that's what it was made for. Just because someone wants to listen to jump up but not dark/neuro, does that make them somehow lesser to those who do the opposite? Not at all. And if they've not heard a drum and bass tune from before 2000, does that make them not 'leet' & 'hardcore' enough to enjoy and discuss the music? It shouldn't
I've seen this kind of egotism before, and I vividly remember how prevalent it was in the metal scene (and undoubtedly still is), particularly in the 'underground' black metal circles. In these cultures, people even go to great lengths to make their music obscure, hard to find and sometimes atonal, just to keep it 'grim' and elite. Any group that is too 'soft' or not evil or dark enough is simply dismissed. Music that slightly deviates from the format is classed as pussy emo music. It's pathetic and makes me sick with general distaste for the human race. I'm sorry but that's how I feel, because arrogance and elitism and two things that I find unforgivable. One could even consider the similarities between this kind of elitism and civil rights issues of the past decade.
Drum and bass is getting bigger and bigger all the time, especially here in the UK where it has already touched the mainstream and gets regular plays on radio one. There is no better way to kill what is such a diverse and exciting genre than by strangling it and forcing it to be this or that, forcing it to fit to a certain criteria. One of the reasons drum and bass has developed so well is because it hasn't been afraid to take influences from other genres.
rant over
and not show so much negativity to each other when there doesn't seem much reason for it.
