Before I get started, I hope you all like my new look. I was told it was a bit hard to read before, and to be totally honest, I am not sure how I ended up with the scheme I did. The way the colours change and whatever.. didn't make sense.
Also, I am not posting twice today just because I missed last week. If you care, tough.
So a couple weeks ago now I was having a conversation with a friend of mine and he told me that I should blog to explain what the division of music is from requiring the most talent to the least talent. The division went something along the lines of (from greatest to least) Jazz, Classical, Metal, Rock, Pop, Punk, Hardcore, Hip Hop (no sub genres, and that is a guess at the order.) Anybody who knows me, knows that for years I have always defended my music as being superior, more talented or better to listen to than anything else, but here is the bottom line.
You CANNOT compare music from DIFFERENT genres directly on what is "better" or takes "more talent" unless they are close enough related on a musical, lyrical and sound level that it is physically possible to do so. Its like comparing apples to oranges. Its like saying 100km an hour is the same as 100mph. It doesn't fucking work. They are completely different styles and require a completely different skill set to make and produce. Here's why;
So you're a Jazz musician, and you understand music fundamentals and you can take your saxophone and SHRED it. You can pick up a piano and SHRED it. You can DECIMATE a jazz bass. You have magic fingers and can do all these great instrumental things, BUT you can't sing deep gutteral vocals at all, you can scream high pitched vocals at all, hell, as a matter of fact you can't even sing NORMAL and play an instrument. But say some guy in a metal band can shred guitar, knows how to play drums, and can sing while playing instruments, what requires more talent? What is harder to do? Duuuuuhhh ummmm I dunno.. thats kind of a weird comparison ya know.. two totally different things.. duhhhhh....
Guy who writes hip hop, can scratch, mix beats, rap, write rhymes, great stage performance, can't play guitar. Guy in a punk band can play guitar reeeallly fast, can write excellent lyrics, has great stage performance, can't really rhyme anything lyrically, can't mix music, has no idea how to mix a beat. What requires more talent?
Some girl has the highest qualification on playing the flute, some guy has the highest qualification playing piano, WHAT REQUIRES MORE TALENT? YOU CANNOT ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS!
If somebody is good at one instrument that doesn't mean that they have less talent credibility in the music world than someone who is not as good at two. The whole argument of saying that hip hop requires less talent than someone in a metal band is absolute crap. It is all dependent on what a specific person is GOOD at and has nothing to do with what requires more talent. You can go directly across the board and say "Said Metal band is more talented for these reasons" because you can directly compare their music styles and determine what is actually better! And also, just because someone plays 3 chords in a punk band doesn't mean that the don't have the ability to play in a metal band as lead guitar, they choose NOT to.
Music is based solely on preference alone, and its impossible to denounce another persons taste in music based strictly on "mine is better than yours because they play faster." You like what you like, and thats it! No arguments! Its good to you, bad to someone else! Whats better an apple or an orange? Well I dunno, do you need Vitamin C? If so I would recommend the fucking orange!
In addition, in many cases music is a "team sport" meaning that it is comprised of several individuals all good at a specific thing. So again what requires more talent, Pop, or Metal? Well a metal drummer is good at drumming, and a lousy singer, but Michael Jackson was (arguably, not my personal opinion) a good singer. Together as a BAND though, they can be good in their own respective genres.
Now that being said, there IS music that exists that is just absolutely awful, regardless of what genre its in. Made from recycled beats, artificially recorded voices to make you sound good when you can't sing, stupid, pointless lyrics. There is TALENTLESS music out there, that pretty much any band above them could reproduce in their respective genre. We all know these types of music, no need to really get into detail.
Now, I know there is exceptions to this argument and yes some areas may in fact require a bit more talent, but the bottom line is its a stupid argument that just causes people to talk in circles and throw sand at each other. So drop it!
-Swanny
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