I’m more than happy to be proved wrong if it means I’m introduced to some amazing music.

Subjectively, of course, what you deal with is the fact that most people are emotionally connected to the music they listen to. And this changes their objective opinions of other forms of music. And when people who feel emotionally connected to the same type of music get together, you have a subculture. And subcultures are good for many, many reasons, and bad for an equal number of reasons.

I am proud to be a metalhead, and to consider myself part of this subculture. But I, like most other metalheads (especially those who read this blog, who astound me with their intelligence and open-mindedness on a regular basis) don’t allow “metal” to define us. We have a whole range of diverse tastes in music, art, literature, sport … sometimes, however, we like to poke a little fun at rap, or Indie. But for all the fun we poke at others, we poke the most fun at ourselves :)

I think you missed the point of this article, which was that I was trying to, in a joking way, point out that when people say they “hate” a genre of music, what they really mean is they “don’t get it”. We like to talk things up and make blatant generalizations about musical genres – I was being silly, pointing out the generalizations people make about metal – it’s “white supremacist”, that we hate hate HATE being mistaken for goths or emos, that we think metal is the one, true and only music worthy of listening to.

It’s not, of course. Just like none of these generalizations are true. That’s why they’re generalizations – they’re applicable to exactly nobody. But it’s part of the “them or us” mentality that makes up a subculture. If you read it again, you’ll notice I never said I was a white supremasist, and in fact, at the start of the article, I explicitly said I don’t hate anything or anyone, and that’s true.

Calling something foriegn doesn’t make anybody a close-minded dumbface. I always think the music that a person loves the most is the music that speaks to them on an emotional level, whether it taps into their love of fun, their anger, their pain, their love.

I am a small, shy, white girl who grew up in a TINY town in rural New Zealand. I am blind. I have my own unique range of experiences and emotions. I find metal resonates with me on an emotional level, as does folk music, certain classical composers, some new age and Turkish music, and a little bit of alternative.

I am not, nor have I ever, had much to do with street gangs, drug culture, or even lived in the bad part of an American city. I’ve never been part of the culture that rap / hip hop grew out of (or at least, my understanding of it, which is probably quite mainstream) and, as such, the music simply doesn’t hold any kind of emotional pull to me. If it did, I’d listen to it, but it doesn’t, so I don’t.

And yes, there actually ARE a couple of rap/hip hop bands I like. I think it’s exactly two. They’re both NZ bands, and very close to my own experiences of growing up in a small town in this country. I’ve only got so much time on this earth and I’m not sure I want to spend it hunting for underground hip hop bands that will change my opinion of it. I’ve still got something like 24 053 metal bands left to hear.

I hope this goes some way to answering your questions. Also, isn’t it odd to tell me to fuck off on my own blog? :)

Music essentially is for everyone. It’s such a wide variety of things and pieces of other things. No type of music is trying to “steal” from another type. If we considered different forms of music to be stealing from someone else, then shouldn’t we say that all music is stealing from jazz which originated from the beats of African drums and rituals?
I don’t know. Shouldn’t you consider things a compliment if a music is derived off the same forms of another?

We hate hip hop and rap, because it’s a culture completely foreign to us, and we’re all white supremesists.

lol everything here with “we hate” in front of it is hilarious lol

but i gotta say i Love indie music!
mostly because the sound is so awesom, but all of the sounds are different , for example the Arctic Monkeys – From the ritz to the rubble is an awesome indie song but is also totally different from something like The Hush Sound – The market , or we intertwined.
the other reason is because indie bands are relatively unpopular. and of corse everything popular is SHIT! im one of those indie fans who loves a band … until they become popular. for exdample Owl City. Owl City used to keep me up at night, catchy up beat songs for the win. but FUCKING MUCH MUSIC and MTV had to ruin it and turn it into crap pop shit.
But i also like bands like slayer, avenged sevenfold. nothing too much, pussy stuff like Atreyu and escape the fate -_-
-mike <3
p.s.. rap can suck me :)