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?
>doesn't have time to listen to music
>has time to make retarded threads on a music board
I'm fairly well versed in folk, but Pink Moon still remains as one my favorite folk albums/albums, period.
if filosofem was one of your favorite albums, and you were actually into music, you would have listened to his other albums and other similar albums by different artists
but youre just some redditor faggot who wants to claim that he has "diverse" music taste but is too lazy and stupid to listen to more than 1 album
the operative word in that post is "and," you obnoxious retard
pink moon isn't folk
You sound retarded.
this
>emo rap
>black metal
why are you gay
yeah its black metal lmao
dumbass
I enjoy broadening my tastes by listening to highly acclaimed stuff from different genres as an entry point - sort of like dipping my toes in to test water. In that sense, I'm a tourist. However, I don't go parading my varied tastes as if I'm better for it, and partaking in discussions on the topic. If I find a genre I enjoy (based on highly acclaimed albums), I dive into it more, and start to get more engaged with obscure releases within that genre.
Genre tourism isn't necessarily a bad thing - in fact, i think it's extremely useful for exploring new music - but don't go acting like you're in love with shoegaze because you listened to the first 2 tracks off loveless and thought they were decent.
there's 3 ways of reproducing music: folk music (through collective memory), popular music (through recording), and classical music (through writing). pink moon fits into popular music
>frogposter
>based
who knew?
Ed Sheeran confirmed folk artist.
so it means acoustic music?
Loveless as a favorite shoegaze album is a respectable opinion (though mine is Isn’t Anything), but otherwise you’re right.
you've made a mistake when you considered others' expectations to be of any importance
this
autism
>that one folk aspie
you’re still here?
>Wow you only listen to the well known and acclaimed albums/artist of this genre?
>Fucking tourist I bet you don't even know [literal who artist within the genre]
In any respect, music taste is a pretty pathetic way to measure social status, non?
Tourists are fine when you shut the fuck up. It's when you pipe up about your entry level faggotry and start fights about stuff you don't know/understand that people get upset.
Basically lurk moar but for music.
My tenancy towards being a tourist stems from my experience with how tedious it is to find good music in a genera that I don't universally like. Like, I enjoy Metallica and Megadeth but beyond that I've been unable to find anything that grabs me. Even the just below surface level bands like Pantera and Slayer don't do anything for me.
again, where do they mention fixating on one genre?
For years i’ve been a huge “genre tourist” but i think it is necessary for a little but, just until you can identify a genre you generally listen to the most. For me i started listening to mu-core shit since like 2013 and not until 2015 i found what i liked and mosty just listen to that
But surely listening to a lot of music so you can collect ratings on RYM or elsewhere is also pokemon tier? If anything the tourist has the right idea of being choosy about what you consume and just going for the stuff that's worth the trouble, it's just that they follow other peoples ideas of what that is which makes them about as bad as people who just swallow everything ever recorded no matter how crap it is. You need to form your own critical perspective so that you're neither an endlessly open culture vulture who has no opinions on anything and has this hubris of musical omniprescence or some moron with coffee table tier taste
Are you only talking about thrash metal specifically? It really doesn't sound like you've tried that hard, but, whatever, you know what you like.