Can anything ever be objectively "generic"
Sitting in the living room with my housemate and I put Copper Blue by Sugar on. He listened to it for a minute and told me that it was just generic and average and couldn't see the point of it. Personally I wouldn't particularly call that album generic or average, but I suppose to someone listening who doesn't know the context of the album & who doesn't normally listen to that kind of thing I could see what he meant a little bit.
This made me think, can anything ever be definitively called generic. I would consider a band such as The Pigeon Detectives as pretty generic personally, but when I hear one of their songs I can kind of tell that it just sounds like them. I suppose no matter how generally similar in style to something else something is, its going to be different in some way.
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if a band made their music before it was commonplace to make that kind of music, it's not inherently generic
if they made after the point it was really commonplace, yeah, it can be objectively generic.
like, I don't think it matters if someone has never heard more than one of a kind of band/artist. it's the pre-existence of bands that have done a sound to death that create the context, not an individual's knowledge of those bands.
*creates
Your housemate is a moron!
He sounds very generic.... O_o
There is no such thing as genre / There is no text outside of genre
Nothing can ever be objectively anything
Il n'y a pas d'hors-genre
what do horses have to do with the price of eggs?
Can water be objectively wet?
alcohol is wetter than water
so, objectively, it's not *that* wet
sometimes
i think it's a criticism posited by people who don't really know what they are saying, or even that they have a valid critique.
^ generic