(January 5, 2015 at 1:55 pm)Alex K Wrote: Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike AC/DC. There are just times when I'm in the mood of having fun background music, and there are times when I feel more like sitting in a darkened room, getting lost into some stuff with many layers. Beyonce autotune just doesn't do for the latter.
I dropped the AC/DC quote, but thought it would be decent to give my opinion regarding the OP.
Eye of the beholder, and by this I include personal shifts in taste and how our moods will often dictate what is appealing at any given moment as you suggest. As far as art goes, I know what I like when I experience it and I don't need professional critics, academics nor the masses to tell me otherwise.
Having to explain why I should enjoy/appreciate something is a tell-tale sign that someone is peddling what I consider shit. Andy Warhol is shit, my opinion. If others think differently, more power to them. I lose patience when people use differences in aesthetic tastes/values as tacit permission to unleash their inner snob to try and take a shit in my mind.