
People who describe their music tastes as “eclectic”.
Eclectic meaning: deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources
Example: “I have an eclectic taste in music”.
So fucking what? Who doesn’t? How many people do you know who only listen to one genre of music? Why fucking say it?
People think that liking a lot of different music styles is somehow superior. Superior to what? Presumably the imaginary people who don’t. People just like any reason to feel superior. Just about every middle aged housewife who chooses the oldies at 3 on Steve Wright on Radio 2 describes their music taste as eclectic. What they really mean is:
– I don’t really, but it makes me feel slightly less worthless.
– I don’t really, but I just have the radio on all the time to drown out the sound of my own thoughts. Does that count?
– I’m old but I listen to Radio 1 because I don’t have any personality or worthwhile interests so it makes me feel like I’m somehow relevant.
– I use spotify to choose my music because I can’t be arsed.
– Someone left a classical music cd round my house.
– My mum told me I was special, so I have to believe superior things about myself.
– I let my children dictate what it on the radio/cd player when I am acting as their taxi-slave. That counts right?
– I don’t actually fucking realise that everyone I have ever fucking known likes music from different genres because it’s almost impossible not to these days.
etc.
The most annoying thing is the implicit superiority in stating you have an eclectic music taste, Well guess what monkey brains, there is something to be said for exclusively concentrating on one music genre – you get to understand it more, it’s nuances and varying styles. It takes time. It isn’t inherently inferior unless you think that plugging yourself into the huge range of bullshit music available nowadays makes you some sort of globetrotting sophisticate. Oh you’re western middle class – you think that anyway.
Fuck these cunts. Go find a sense of self worth somewhere else, I don’t want to hear your inner child screaming out to be validated by declaring itself superior.
Nominated by Cunting Rank Wags



