Genre tourism posting is just a meme right?
People don’t really expect me to just fixate on one genre autistically and not listen to anything else right?
Iike I mainly listen to emo and rap and know one black metal album and it’s filosofem doesn’t mean I can’t still enjoy it it’s actually one of my fav albums
It's autistic to think just because you like something from a specific genre that it therefor means you must like EVERYTHING from that genre, that's literally autistic type behavior
On the other hand, it is kind of cringey when someone claims to like a style of music but only has an extremely surface level understanding of it. For example, I like Metallica and Megadeth better than most thrash bands, and they happen to be two of the most well known and popular of their era, however I do actually know enough about thrash in general and the other lesser known bands and their music to actually have a conversation about it, regardless of who my favorites are.
>People don’t really expect me to just fixate on one genre autistically and not listen to anything else right?
No, but if your favorite black metal album is Filosofem, favorite shoegaze album is Loveless, favorite ambient album is SAW II, favorite hip hop album is MBDTF, favorite IDM album is Geogaddi, and your favorite folk album is Pink Moon, then you are a filthy tourist.
Genre tourism means only listening to the most acclaimed and accessible albums from a genre and never diving deeper. Similar to how a tourist would only got to Paris when visiting France. It means you see music as a commodity. There's nothing wrong with listening to many genres, but treating them like pokemon makes your taste shit.
when did anyone say anything about fixating on one genre???
it's not about fixation, it's about being pretensious self-proclaimed expert while having surface level knowledge of genre, see
Artist tourism is worse than genre tourism
no one wants you to focus on only a single genre forever. but if you decide to say x album is the best album of y genre and the x album you choose is the one album from that genre everyone has heard and you can't demonstrate that you've actually listened to a substantial amount of music from that genre, you're an annoying tourist who contributes nothing to the board and you'd be better off chasing upboats on plebbit than bothering us here with your human centipede ass opinions
I absolutely don’t claim to be a big black metal fan however I literally only listen to mayhem and burzum yet still get called a tourist
Like wtf I literally don’t have time to find new black metal bands also I’m way more into rap and rock in general once in a while I’ll put on folisofem when I’m in the mood though
THIS
there's nothing more pleb than liking only a few songs from each artist you listen to. it shows that you lack any kind of appreciation of music beyond "this one song sounds good"
>literally don't have time
no, you have the time and choose not to check out more black metal. that's fine, but if you're posting in threads that are about black metal and spamming them with two of the most famous artists in the genre, then tourist is a shorthand for fuck off and let the grownups talk.
seriously, do you want every hip hop thread you go into to find new music filled with posts about the wu-tang clan and kanye?