• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    Poster: ZILtoid1991

    Commentary from post: Does not know what excessive gatekeeping did to the metal scene


    Based on their username, I bet OP does know what excessive gatekeeping did to the metal scene though!

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    9 months ago

    There are a lot of elements to a musical piece, regardless of genre. So if someone says not metal enough, ask them exactly why. Maybe they’re right, or maybe they’re wrong. But calling them gatekeepers without discussing composition, arrangement, thematic elements etc. doesn’t help maintain genre quality in the long run. If they’re using 1 or 2 favorite bands as a barometer, then that’s just stupid.

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      I often asked them. Things often brought up were use of guitar effects, no guitar solos, wrong type of vocals (with rapping was the most criticized back in my days, nowadays it’s harsh vs. clean vocals mainly), being popular, making more money from merchs/endorsements than record sales, and my personal favorite: not understanding music theory and how music is played so much you think only losers play power chords in the genre dominated by power chords.

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      9 months ago

      I just wrote a number there, but a pretty big former friend of mine started to go really bad at that point. He started to post fashy stuff on his timeline (especially LoTT), deleted it before the Hogwarts Legacy drama (likely to claim he was made fascist by the impending drama), he suddenly became a big fan of Silvervale (he previously hated VShojo and their talents), also became a fan of Pipkin Pippa. However, he somehow realized they weren’t actual nazis (both are… complicated…), so he entered an interesting arc, where he basically gradually stops liking every geeky stuff he did in the past, because he realized they’re “woke”.