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[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

While you have confirmed that you didn't say what I was worried you were saying (long story), can anyone truly have better taste than someone else (in any given topic, but we can focus on music for now)? When you get down to it, it is all about opinion and no one's opinion isn't any more or less valid than another person's.

I disagree. Just like in fashion, there is good taste and no taste or just bad taste. It doesn't have to do with a statement such as "if you like the Talking Heads, you have good taste, and if you don't, you have terrible taste" but more to do with the breadth of music knowledge and the ability to see what is just simply awful music. I'm not saying that I have the ultimate taste in music because there are plenty of people who have a broad range of music knowledge and have explored a lot of genres and prefer completely different music than I do.

As with fashion or art, I appreciate people MORE when they have a decent knowledge of the art form. If they have that and continue to prefer schlocky crap, well, maybe they just have no taste.