🎙️been jumping between Polyphia and 100 gecs a lot in our musical fandom lately and it's wildly funny to me that dorks are still having the 'virtuosity vs. emotional content' conversation in 2023 as though that is not a completely fake distinction. flashbacks to both 'it's not punk if you can play more than 5 chords, you're just DROWNING the feelings in COLD MUSIC like a SELLOUT' and 'ugh, these Bad Religion proles are too pedestrian for my refined palate; perhaps your ear is simply not refined enough to hear the flaws'
as a music fan I am doomed to bear witness to this recursion endlessly; I will watch identical gaggles of insufferable dweebs loop this discourse forever and ever and ever, as they campaign, eternally, to shove music into ever-tinier boxes to satisfy ever-pettier personal grudges. this is my personal Dark Souls