I will just say this simply. It's okay to have a jazz culture, a reggae culture, a punk culture, a metal culture, a blues culture, a classical culture in anywhere. I regard them as true, beautiful and uncorrupted music.
But I'm just totally against pop and the mainstream music. The commercialization of pop is just like Coke turning the world upside down. Music has now become so saturated and everything that music does have got to do with money. I don't quite get along with this idea, because from an artistic point of view, art should never be associated with vices like money. We do it purely for the people to enjoy and to gain maturity as we grow with our music.
We hold our music in high regard and to think that pop is such a global affair with so much money involved, I don't really feel good about the music. Haven't you guys ever thought of the dip in quality of music produced as music gets commercialized? If you don't, I suggest you look at the likes of music some 40 years ago and compare them with modern music.
Of course, there are good pop songs out there. I do listen to them because I find them meaningful and afterall, pop is still somehow music. But there, it's a minority.
And to put it this way, Soft has many metalheads around because metalheads form the musicians, not the poppies! Or rather, the minority forms the music, while only a little of the majority actually do it.
But whatever it is, I really dislike pop, but I've never inhibited anyone from listening to pop in any way. I still respect pop but there, I do reason my dislike for pop.
So don't say that I diss pop.
