I think “pretentious” is now synonymous with something people don’t understand. That’s the thing I don’t get. If it is anything beyond what someone is used to, it is pretentious until ten years later, and then they go back and listen, and suddenly it is “ahead of its time.” If everyone was just more open-minded nothing would be pretentious, nothing would be ahead of its time, nothing would be genius. Everything would just be enjoyable to a certain extent. There’s no doubt there is music that just sucks, and there is no doubt there is music that is better than the rest. But people spend so much time trying to categorize it around what card it would be behind at Barnes and Noble, and above that to have to always say if something is smart, pretentious, or whatever. It’s the same thing as saying something sucks. No one gains anything from that.
-Casey Crescenzo
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