Taste really can be good or bad

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I think they should do tests on people who listen to their favorite music and compare it to the brainwaves of other people who listen to the same music to see who's brainwaves show a higher amount of thought. That would finally expose which music is for simpletons and which ones are for real music listeners and not just the people who listen to music so they don't have silence. You even hear people say it themselves when the radio is on "it's the radio, who cares?" They obviously don't care about music. I think this issue should be addressed and given proper attention and then maybe once we expose artists for being insipid mind numbing crap we can having a more musically rich society.

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Listen, I'm sure everyone on this thread has said this, but I'm going to say it again anyway.

Taste is entirely subjective. There is no good or bad 'taste' from an objective perspective. Do I think the music 'made' by Bieber and 1 Direction is horse shit and offensive to my ears? Yeah. But millions of teenage girls disagree with me, and why am I therefore right and them wrong?

RE: studies. I can't remember exactly but there was a study I heard about a long time ago that found a small positive correlation between activity/intelligence/openness to new ideas and those who listened to rock and classical music vis those who listened to trance and Morse code music (as I refer to it).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_...preference

I would also contend that allowing music for 'simpltetons' to exist and to be played whenever/wherever there is a market for it is more conducive to a musically rich society [defined?] than one that bans/ostracises it [whatever 'it' is] by whichever mean aside market demand.