Originally Posted by gianluca

It's not that I feel a conscious need to analyze all music I listen to, it just happens automatically. Whether I enjoy music depends on whether I hear any musical substance in it. 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 meager musical substance; because it's so impoverished (melodically, harmonically, rhythmically, structurally), because it's so superficial, unimaginative, undemanding, predictable, full of clichés and bombast, slickly produced, inane, repetitive, one-dimensional and emotionally flat. All those youtube examples you guys have given me are no exception.