And you know, I want to say something else Everybody I knew from MY generation who was particularly stannish and obsessive about pop music in their teens? They were the most vile, snotty goddamn people. Gamers BECAME worse than them, but I don't know that they were at that age
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My contempt here isn't generational hypocrisy because honestly I cannot even begin to put into words how loathsome I found all the fucking My Chemical Romance-obsessed kids back in my day. They were just unspeakably awful to be around. Some of them still are. Sorry not sorry.
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Maybe this is my aneurotypicality coming into play but pop songs are like four minutes long, max They're very short! if your entire personality is music and you neither make your own nor engage with what you like academically then maybe there's just not much depth to you
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Okay but usually the hardcore music geeks don't think in terms of songs but of albums
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Yeah but like albums are between 45 to 90 minutes long So that's pretty much the equivalent of making a single episode of TNG into your sole interest
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I dunno conflating "length" with "depth" is verging into bad takes territory There are absolutely short stories and short poems that are more influential and deep than giant epic novels or dissertations
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Although, sure, plenty of old school nerds will be happy to yell about how declining attention spans mean no one can grasp the full power of a symphony anymore
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