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Edit: Shit, meant quality. I'm rusty at my invocations.

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Why the fuck does anyone give a shit about what music other people enjoy?

You don't like Nickelback? Don't listen to them, buy their music, or go to their concerts.

What the fuck does your taste in music have anything to do with anything other than your own navel-gazing fucktardedness? Get over yourself. Some people don't give a crap about meaning in their music.

If you need music to learn something, your life is devoid of intelligence.

Fucking hippies.

How about this: "get new friends/family"

The ire portrayed in this semi-rant is (validly) directed at the stupidity/sheepishness that surrounds virtually every human, in different, albeit "unenlightened", tones...this includes (~90% of) you!

I would argue that most of us are/have been/will be overly-enthusiastic about something that "we" suspect to be uber-cool, or on the cusp of becoming a "thing", that the opportunity to be "hip" to it first, trumps reason.

Self-gain always trumps reason, or ethics, for that matter. The nature of humanity, at its base, must therefore be the drive to ...better oneself above the perceived station of ones fellow man/woman(?).

(googles Nickleback)

Except they make really good stripper songs.

This video is a small portion of a much more interesting video about Phil Fish, the infamous indie dev of Fez.

The Nickleback thing is just an analogy; he's actually talking about why people love to hate Phil Fish and what it means. Recommend watching the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w

The real problem is college dorms. What music other people like never bothered me before, and doesn't now, no matter how terrible I personally considered it to be. The two years of my life I spent living in a college dorm was a different story though. I can take bad music for a few minutes here and there in public, or at a party where the music isn't really important, but when it's in your home, on repeat, 16 hours a day--that's different. I started to hate the people playing it too. Since "they have bad taste in music" isn't really a good reason to self-justify actually *hating* someone (who I knew, really, were okay folk), I naturally had to invent some complex, sociological explanation for it.

Of course, I grew up, left the dorms, and this isn't a problem anymore, but there are still many millions of 18-21 year-olds, living in dorms, with only three hours of classes a day, spending the rest of their ample free time sitting at their computers with Nickelback blasting through the walls on repeat. Maybe it builds character or something.

To be really fair, though, I haven't had to hear Trey Anastasio playing a guitar since then, and I can't be sure what I'd do if I did.

I hate Nickleback.

Anyone know who the other bands are that are pictured in the video?

I hate that photoshop filter effect.

You visit Videosift (theoretically) because it sifts through the bullshit videos on the internet and gives you videos of merit. How is the aversion to heavily marketed BS such a seemingly unfamiliar concept to you?

If better, more deserving music was popular, then good music would be more accessible. But when music lacking merit is popular (because someone engineered it that way) then you end up drowning in terrible music in public places where popular music is played.

Every movie I go see in the theater means I'll be listening to drivel leading up to the feature. If music was popular by merit (via a sifting process) and not marketing, there would exist good music in public places. Even if it were not the genre one is most comfortable listening to, there would be greater access to the best of all possible genres.

Instead, we have bands like Nickelback playing everywhere you goddamn go.

I've seen a fair share of crap make it to top spot, here on the Sift, so don't get all elitist about the maturity level in here. Bewbs, cats, and Louis CK all have a dubious percentage of votes in here.

...but honestly, as with most "internet communities" I'm here for the people. Places like Reddit and Youtube itself are just too full of vitriol and verbal diarrhea for my liking. Far too many saying far too little.

My dislike of this person's video has more to do with it's judgmental nature. I really dislike people who put down others over something so esoteric and subjective as music taste. The "Pop" in pop music is short for "Popular". Hating on something for no other real reason than a lot of people like it is douchebaggery at it's most stereotypical extreme.

There's only one Nickelback song I like, so I'm not a fanboi. I have to say though, the fact they are still selling records and and concert tickets kinda proves this guy wrong. They have "struck a chord" with quite a few people. Otherwise, they would have been a one-hit-wonder like the chick down the street from them, Carly Rae Jepsen.

Music doesn't have to be well written, or well performed to be popular, people just have to like it.

This is pretty clearly explained in the video.