Thank you.
Musical snobbery exactly. No offense to you,
thisoldheart, but the post you wrote that opened up this whole can of worms did read to me as musical snobbery. Especially when you waxed on and on about how long you've been into music, and maybe worked in the industry, yada yada.
Well, I worked in radio. I studied theatre and have several plays and even a film to my credit. I studied voice and dance with some pretty well-known singer/actors in the city I grew up in. I've loved music my whole life too, and my first love was actually classical.
You can say Dylan and Patti Smith are the most important musical artists of the 20th century, but I reserve the right to roll my eyes when you say it, because it's soooooooo predictable as a cookie cutter example of musical snobbery.
I will admit to being snarky when I brought up Patti's hairy armpit album cover, but it's TRUE, and you and everyone else who read my post instantly remembered that! LOL [[I was being kind anyway; I wanted to also say that she is a doppelganger for Steven Tyler - complete with moobs - but refrained due to my desire for civility on internet forums.)
At the end of the day, you're free to like who you like, and I'm free to like who I like. But just because I consider Diana Ross to be a true artist and a gifted vocalist and not just a black Barbie exploding in marabou and sequins, that doesn't mean you know more about music than I do, or have better taste than I do.
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