To be honest, I'm not 100% sure why. I know I'm intelligent, and I'm also musically gifted, but this whole genre of music is Greek to me. I mean it sounds bad, and I don't usually get along with it's extreme proponents either.
In my experience, our generation is encountering a divide: EDM vs. Non-EDM.
EDM (or Electronic Dance Music) encompases everything from techno to rap, and actually includes most pop music.
Non-EDM is everything else (which can be rock, classical, grunge, emo, hardcore). Personally I enjoy EDM over Non-EDM, but I also enjoy artists that appeal to both groups (Industrial, IDM, and some rock groups like Radiohead who have electronic influences). Don't get me wrong, I also like a fair amount of Non-EDM artists (Bob Marley is a great example), but I see more and more that there are a lot of kids out there who instantly call anything that used a drum machine "trash."
I think it's easy to become sucked into a certain form of music and begin to praise the most extreme ends of it, I see it often. I think the stereotypical (keep in mind I said stereotypical, I don't know how many bands fit the stereotypes) emo and hardcore are trash, just as I think the stereotypical rap music and techno are trash, but there is no shortage of kids criticizing rap music and techno for being shallow when EMO and Hardcore seem to be in some sort of a bubble from what I see.
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