A trend in the musical world that has been gaining in both popularity and strength in the past few years. That is not to say that it has not been present in past decades, but with the advent of the Internet and the anonymity it provides, many have come out of the woodwork to voice their opinions.
Musical elitism, simply put, is the valuing of one's own musical tastes as the standard by which all music should be made, or the standard that all others should use to choose what music they listen to. Musical elitists will oftentimes use one of the following words in their tirades against their target band: shitty, sucks, lame, terrible, or any other standard derogatory terms. Musical elitism also comes bundled with musical stereotypes, i.e., all people who listen to Linkin Park are wangsty teens, all people who listen to Evanescence are goths, all people who listen to Avril Lavigne are posers, and so on.
Disliking a band for whatever reason does not automatically make you a musical elitist; the tag comes when one begins to put their standard against others and demand that they give up their "inferior" music for much more "sophisticated" tastes.
Everyone is free to enjoy whatever music they like, from Britney Spears to Nirvana to Tool to whatever underground band you may enjoy. People's tastes will differ endlessly and said tastes ought to be respected, whether or not you like the band they enjoy. Everyone is also free to criticize any band they wish, but when one begins to demean people for what they listen to, their integrity suffers, while their standing with other elitists rises.
Musical elitism, simply put, is the valuing of one's own musical tastes as the standard by which all music should be made, or the standard that all others should use to choose what music they listen to. Musical elitists will oftentimes use one of the following words in their tirades against their target band: shitty, sucks, lame, terrible, or any other standard derogatory terms. Musical elitism also comes bundled with musical stereotypes, i.e., all people who listen to Linkin Park are wangsty teens, all people who listen to Evanescence are goths, all people who listen to Avril Lavigne are posers, and so on.
Disliking a band for whatever reason does not automatically make you a musical elitist; the tag comes when one begins to put their standard against others and demand that they give up their "inferior" music for much more "sophisticated" tastes.
Everyone is free to enjoy whatever music they like, from Britney Spears to Nirvana to Tool to whatever underground band you may enjoy. People's tastes will differ endlessly and said tastes ought to be respected, whether or not you like the band they enjoy. Everyone is also free to criticize any band they wish, but when one begins to demean people for what they listen to, their integrity suffers, while their standing with other elitists rises.
1: WTF? Why do you listen to shitty bands like Slipknot?
2: Maybe because I enjoy listening to it?
1: That makes no sense. You are an idiot.
2: Maybe because I enjoy listening to it?
1: That makes no sense. You are an idiot.
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Get the elitism mug.A person who puts other metalheads down for their taste in metal. These people will generally like and worship heavier, more extreme metal (call it the "trve metal") and any band they don't listen to is "gay" or "faggy". They love to make fun of bands like Slipknot and Metallica. Basically any band that gets popular among the metal community. Usually male, these homophobic scum congregate in the YouTube comment section and almost anywhere where metal is mentioned, these guys will appear. If they say they like a band you like, they will still try to put you down by saying their demo or debut record was the best and everything else was sell-out material. If you want to get into metal, you'll have to deal with these guys. They are the worst part of metal.
Cool Metalfan: I like Metallica, Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Death, Slipknot, and Dream Theater. I also love classic rock and some pop music when it's good. I have a very eclectic taste in music. What do you listen to?
Metal Elitist: Take absolutely no offense from this, but your musical taste is trash and you should hang yourself. You should listen to trve metal like 69Goreface.
Metal Elitist: Take absolutely no offense from this, but your musical taste is trash and you should hang yourself. You should listen to trve metal like 69Goreface.
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Tom: "You mean your swap meet editions?"
Joe: "Your loss, bro."
Tom: "You mean your swap meet editions?"
Joe: "Your loss, bro."
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Get the Swap Meet Edition mug.In short, the term is generally used to describe someone who thinks they are better than everyone else because of their taste in music. They tend to only listen to metal bands that are very obscure and will stop listening to said bands if they find out that more than 10 people listen to them, so they can be "unique". If they do happen to like a band that has become well known, (e.g Metallica) they will state that they only like their demos or first album and that everything else is crap. They usually bitch about bands like Cannibal Corpse for sounding the same on all of their records but complain just as much when a band happens to experiment or change their style on their next album (e.g Carcass, Morbid Angel.) Isn't that funny?
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