Music Fans- You are the annoyance

I guess I like most things, there's only a few genres I eschew because I just don't enjoy them. But I don't claim to like "everything," although I think my tastes are relatively diverse. I know people whose tastes are more diverse, and people whose tastes are less diverse, so I fall in the middle someplace.

Certain music fans can annoy me, though, usually the ones who assume that their tastes are the penultimate collection of the best music known to man, and anyone who likes stuff besides their favorites are complete idiots. Metalheads seem to do this A LOT. One's relationship to music is a highly subjective thing—we love the music we do because it speaks to our temperment, our experiences and memories. Obviously, not everyone is the same, so not everyone is going to like the same things.

Now, I'm guilty of faulting people for their taste in music from time to time, but not necessarily because it doesn't line up with mine, but because they don't take the time to explore. One thing that bothers me is complacency, and people who simply eat what the media feeds them without trying to find something more just strike me as lazy.

OH YEAH. That's the other group of music fans who annoy the piss out of me—anime-obsessed otaku who swear off all American/European music in favor of trite J-pop that they can't even understand, and who maintain that ALL ENGLISH MUSIC SUCKS and Japanese music is better BECAUSE IT'S JAPANESE. These people engage in the same sort of intellectual laziness as MTV-fed kids.

Jam it back in, in the dark.