Style and Media

Today we talked about how we limit ourselves in media. I’m going to go out on a limb here and talk about music for a little bit. When people listen to music they almost always listen to it for entertainment and not for quality. Take music by Mozart or Beethoven and compare it to the techno/dance genre.

Many people would say classical music puts them to sleep and is boring. Others could say techno gives them headaches. It’s all a matter of perspective. A certain audience can consider music good but to recognize both to be good would be completely insane, wouldn’t it. Unfortunately that isn’t that uncommon because I’m like that ­­— I enjoy almost all types of music from classical to rock, and jazz to electronic.  This parallels to film as well because most people might not like long elaborate movies like I do because they can’t handle the type of film. 

There may be some absolutely terrible movies that have been made just for the purpose of creating revenue. People will still go and watch it even though it isn’t a good movie.

Just because something isn’t high quality doesn’t mean someone won’t enjoy it. In my opinion enjoying a piece of media is all about the amount of exposure to the style of media.