sofusja at 2024-02-02 11:29:31+00:00 ID: kokocys

Ha ha, it's way easier to define what's not good music. 

But objectively speaking, and I say this as a semi pro jazz musician, people should absolutely listen to whatever makes them happy. But i think it's somewhat possible to judge music on how much either emotional or harmonic information it contains. And its not necessarily a question about personal preferences. 

I like, and play, Balkan music very much. But Tool doesn't really resonate with me. But I can still acknowledge, that Tool contains a lot of musical information. 

I agree, that it's not easy to use an excact scale to measure good music. But most music is quite easy to judge. You can compare it to movies. A romantic comedy with Jennifer Aniston is not really a good movie, it doesn't really deliver any cinematographic information except the most rudimentary. While a Cohen brothers movie definitely is a better movie measured on the level of information. 

And information is not only technical. It's also emotional. While Leonard Cohens music might be simple, it's very complex emotionally. Opposed to Infernal. They are very rudimentary emotional. Again, the emotions in a Jennifer Aniston movie aren't really that complex, deep or even authentic, as the emotions in a Cohen brothers movie.