i dont get it

>>130979064
>how to never make new friends: the post

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>>130979064
my goat

>>130979064
So just listen to music on your own but never actually discuss it with anyone else? Not sure how you arrive at asking if someone has heard of a band being "competitive" by any stretch of the imagination. This just sounds like a friendless faggot complaining that other people find enjoyment in things. An embittered, po-faced weakling.

>>130979154
There's the knee jerk reaction a lot of people seem to have to not immediately "knowing the thing." Same phenomenon that makes so many people feel like they need to watch each Marvel movie, they feel left out if they can't claim the media as part of their social parlance. Talking about music is frustrating to this sort of person because any conversation with someone who has more than a passing interest in a genre will inevitably be full of unrecognized names which read as arrogance when your only metric for discussing art is the ability to make small talk about it.

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>>130979154
Basement dwellers who have never interacted with normies

>>130979171
just letting you know that I'm saving your post
never thought about this in such way

>>130979064
Vulnerable narcissism: the post

>>130979128

This is false, but there is a fine line. Ever heard of William's syndrome? When I first read about that, I have a real life Bakula moment like "...I'm retarded?".

>>130979064
His evisceration of William Basinski was important and necessary

>>130979064
He waxes poetic and huffs his own farts but he’s able to do it in a charismatic and eloquent way, it makes me tolerate him. I like him because he’s strongly opinionated and kind of outlandish. That’s the most fun kind of human, particularly in modern times where everyone is a liberal automaton

I have the best music taste. I saw Black Country New Road before all of you. You ever heard of Mac Demarco? Heh, didn't think so kid. Did you see my status? My bank account? My instagram followers? Did you see that Wil Wheaton liked my post? I have the guy from Lethal Weapon 3 in my DMs. Chinese peptides got my jawline ascensionmaxxed. I have a car financed on credit for 36 months and low low APR. Renting a brownstone with 6 other guys while we share a chamber pot to save on plumbing

>>130979128
This guy and his brother's entire schtick is repackaging muslim beliefs for "based" western teenagers

>>130979070
Would you want to be friends with the prototypical RYM user or youtube music "video essayist"?

>>130981716
I respect it

>>130979970
lol great description of the otter.

>>130979064
What a weird thing to say. I don't suggest music to people unless they specifically ask for recommendations because I know music taste is highly personal, but I'd never take offense if someone asks me if I've ever heard of a band or record. What the fuck?

>>130984077
You're autistic.

>>130984077
Have you ever had a job before? Have you ever been forced to share your music taste with your boss and co-workers?

>>130984082
I'm actually not, but expand on that and tell me what I'm missing.

>>130984094
Of course I've talked music with co-workers before. I wouldn't say I've ever been "forced" to share my music taste with anyone, although it comes up if we're discussing music.

Anyways, there's probably a context to Ott's post that I'm not privy to, so I'm likely misinterpreting what he's saying.

>>130984077
he's being intentionally abrasive/hyperbolic i think, but its basically saying dont use music as a status symbol and dont get bogged down by these scenster types name dropping bands for their own self image rather than appreciation of the craft

Love him or hate him, you can't say Ott doesn't have a distinct editorial voice. The guy is a complete dick and you rarely get public people like him on the internet anymore.

>>130981716
>Did you see that Wil Wheaton liked my post
I would kill myself

>>130984082
Youre an ottist

>>130984094
My coworkers used to get so sick of me putting Helloween on the work playlist lmao

>>130981775
>"based"
No, brown. It's all browns.

>>130979154
Dont worry, the same fifteen roaches who still hold this loser's balls will post a discord link eventually

>>130979154
too based for /mu/

personally I love it when friends ask me if I've heard of <band I've never heard of>. It's a crap shoot but as often as not I get turned on to some music I otherwise would not have known about.

>>130979154
there are definitely people who use music as one upsmanship. probably was a bigger thing with gen x

>>130986525
no, the problem was/is always gatekeeping, not "oooh I've heard of an obscure band that you haven't"

I mean there were some hipsters that were proud of themselves for being into obscure shit but it wasn't a big deal.

Gatekeepers are always insufferable though.

>>130984094
>Have you ever had a job before? Have you ever been forced to share your music taste with your boss and co-workers?

we're hoping that 50s schizo guy doesn't play Mindy Carson tunes at work

>>130979064
Not music but I once used this trick on a guy trying to sell me an LA Fitness membership by telling him I'd never heard of LA Fitness.

He's right that casuals get unnerved when you tell them something they don't know and they feel somehow filtered and left out.

>>130986516
this
imagine getting angry at someone trying to show you a song lmao

>>130986525
>probably was a bigger thing with gen x
its a big thing among rockists and metalheads, just look how they seethed about disco/hip hop

>>130986851
i remember when i was in high school and said something like "so yeah it's like Don Quixote tilting at windmills" (the context of which i can no longer recall) and causing my sister to become absolutely annoyed because she didn't know what that was and suggesting i had some nerve using a reference she didn't get.

>>130986892
yes that's how people act when you mention a cultural thing they don't know, they become frustrated and annoyed

>>130986713
Gatekeeping is necessary if you have any sort of hobby you care about at all.

>>130979171
>There's the knee jerk reaction a lot of people seem to have to not immediately "knowing the thing." Same phenomenon that makes so many people feel like they need to watch each Marvel movie, they feel left out if they can't claim the media as part of their social parlance

I take great pride in having never seen a single capeslop movie.

>>130987098
no its not unc

>>130987380
Explain how it isn't then. Explain how it's a "le good thing" that 14 year old's who like Linkin Park also listen to Boa.