I will assume this isn't directed at me[/quote]You're right, it wasn't. My post was directed more at DragonXero than at you, Drexle; I was just playing off the wording in your post.
I understand that. But my quote was not exactly serious, and really ought to have read "the more ashamed I am to admit to being one." I don't really begrudge that girl for sharing an interest with me -- in fact part of me is glad she has interests at all -- and I don't really care if what she gets out of it isn't what I get out of it, or if other people think that there must be similarities between us. Anyone who we get to know will find out whether there are soon enough, and anyone else is irrelevant.
Try liking punk. When I tell people I do, they may start talking about a wide range of bands, including Green Day, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, Bad Religion, the Offspring, Pennywise, Nirvana, NOFX, or even Tool. Again, some of those I like, and some I don't. But you don't hear me whining about it, or about the fact that people might get the wrong idea about me because they've watched SLC Punk. I don't take that possibility very seriously.
You have flown over my vocabulary... not in the words you've used, but in the way you've used them.[/quote]Another way of asking might be, do you think metal is a more perfect form of music or of entertainment than mallcore? I just asked this question to make people think about it; I'm not really interested in the answer. But I'm sure you can figure out what my answer would be.
It's unfortunate that you have such a narrow view of a musical style wider than '80 hair bands. It's a notion that a lot of metal fans have to dispel on many occasions.[/quote]Obviously I'm aware that contemporary metal is much different. I wrote that to illustrate a few points.
First, that most people don't care enough about metal to care what it isn't.
Second, that a greater danger to metal's good name is posed by those stuck in the '80s than by those confusing it with mallcore.
Third, that when you ask me not to call band X metal, or tell me that band Y is, that's the prejudice you're conjuring up in me. Of course it's incorrect, as prejudices generally are, which is why I don't understand this insistence on precise defintion of genres when all genres are is prejudices. And, I might add, it's not your job to evangelize about the truth of this matter any more than it's my job to evangelize about punks (as if I would know) or 'Nate's job to evangelize about his religion or the sort of people who practice it. Just act like yourself and I'll probably get the right impression of you. In time, that impression will come to be totally independent of any stereotypes I may hold. Almost everyone on this site is well along on that track.
DX's ongoing pro-metal/anti-mallcore/pro-division-of-music-into-a-million-tiny-subgenres campaign on these forums is getting to be a little tiresome, especially since it's neither funny nor relevant to the site, and no one around here has ever judged him based on any metal or mallcore stereotypes, nor found fault with his taste in music. I don't understand what he's trying to prove, why he keeps trying to prove it, or why he thinks that we're the people who need it proven to us. DX, I don't have any problem with you personally, I just wish you'd give this subject a rest.
If anyone wants to talk music with me, you know how to get my e-mail address.
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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!
