First let me start by saying music is my life (Cliche as hell... I know) but it's true. I never did very well in school, but I made a point to do my best when it came to music class. I did well and managed to get a top grade which allowed me to go to college to study music. Again I made a point to do well in this course and so I passed it and got into a higher music class, of which I just had my induction day today and start properly on Monday.

One thing that I really liked about my first year in college was the musical diversity among my classmates. So many people having so many musical tastes. Because of this, the subject was always interesting, but one thing I really liked about the people is that they were all very tolerant of other peoples music tastes. These people were all very serious about music and instead of hating something they hadn't heard, they would be interested in it. There were a few that weren't quite as tolerant as others, but the vast majority of the class were very cool about it. I learned so much from this. I never really hated on music much anyway, but my mind was fairly closed when it came to other genres of music. I didn't hate on them, but I didnt care about them. as the year went on, I started listening to more and more music to a point where I say I have no musical taste nowadays because I can listen to pretty much anything and enjoy it.

The point of this blog is more of a rant about how annoyed the people of these forums make me when it comes to musical taste. So much bashing and hateful comments about other people music tastes, and just bashing of artists in general. I came from that thread where Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy was arrested. The comments in there irritated me so much that I had to write this blog post. It wasn't that the TC referred to him as a rock Legend that got me, it was the hateful ignorant comments made by people calling him "untalented" and other people bashing him. I'm all for opinions, but when people start hating, it annoys me. call him untalented if you want, but your standards of talent must be pretty high if you think a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and music producer is untalented. Sure his songs aren't that technical - the older ones aren't, but newer ones are much more so, but that shouldn't matter. Music is a way of expressing ones self and sometimes simpler songs can express much more than songs that are too technical. I feel this way myself. When I write music, I could go and make a song that is technical, but sometimes I feel like I'm writing a song that is technical for the sake of technical, I feel like I have to prove to people that I can write this stuff, but sometimes choose not to. I find that simpler songs for me can just say much more sometimes. If I'm writing a song to go along with a story, then it will definitely be more progressive, but if I'm writing about my feelings, then I'll keep it short a simple. I'm sure plenty of musicians feel the same.

Ugh.. I've rambled way too much and haven't even gotten to the main reason I blogged this. All of this got me to thinking back a few years when my mind was very closed musically and the only bands I listened to were Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Blink 182 and others like them. I used to get a lot of crap here from other users about how my taste in music was. I used to get insulted a lot aswell. This affected me a lot, to a point where I stay as far away from threads about music as possible. Even outside of the internet like during my induction day today, I was asked to say my fabourite band infront of my new class, and I said it was Green Day. I kept thinking the class would judge my musical ability based on my favourite band. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't.

One thing I really hate about when I write blog posts is that I ramble too much, to a point where I completely forget what the hell I'm talking about. Either way, I needed to get this off my chest. I guess I just hate it when people insult bands because they dislike their music. There are many bands I wouldn't listen to, but I'd never insult them or make ignorant comments about them unless they were genuinely bad people. It's just sad to come from college where people are so tolerant to here, where people are the opposite.

Keep in mind I'm not talking about everybody here, I've just noticed a lot of them over the years.

Also, Please don't think this blog post is condescending or anything, because it's definitely not intended to be that way.