Originally Posted by gianluca

Why do I enjoy music? Because it can give me this wonderful, profound, deeply emotional and intellectual experience I can't get out of anything else. Pop music, however, definitely isn't able to give me this deep experience because of its [alleged] meager musical substance; because it's so impoverished [to my ears] (melodically, harmonically, rhythmically, structurally), because [as I see it] it's so superficial, unimaginative, undemanding, predictable, full of clichés and bombast, slickly produced, inane, repetitive, one-dimensional and emotionally flat.