Are you making bad music or what?

I think everyone of us has it’s own perception of what quality music means. Did you notice that each time you speak with someone about music of high quality vs music of low quality your music and the music you listen and appreciate come as quality music?

I have even heard of really bad, kitsch music singers saying they make quality music, being proud with what they do and sing. They are artists, making good, quality music. Not like the others…

I ask myself if is there anyone out there, making music, saying that he/she is making low quality music. Really, if there are so many making quality music, not like the others, there must be somewhere “the others” making bad music…

So, what is bad music? Who could actually say which are the criteria used to judge this low quality music? Classical music artists and critics? Technical rock artists? By the way, ask Malmsteen what he thinks about Nirvana or Smashing pumpkins…go on, ask him!

Is complexity a criteria? How about Knocking on heavens door then or No woman no cry? These could not be considered very complex from a technical point of view, right?

The easiness to reach audience? Well, is it being commercial a sin? Actually I think everybody would looove to sell million of records by night and to make it big. They will probably say that they sold so many records cause their music is good. Right! So being commercial is not it. What is it then?

Man, I feel like in Seinfeld, it was one evening when he was speaking about doctors, something like “go to my doctor, he’s the top of his class!” Everybody will say the same about his/her doctors, right? But (Seinfeld was asking himself) “what happened to those finishing medical training on the last position of the class. What happened to them? Nobody will say go to my doctor, he was the last of his class!!” 

Let me hear you people!! Say it! What makes good music and what makes bad music?

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