Did it ever occur to you that maybe they simply mean what they said? That JB’s music is objectively crappy music?
I happen to like Justin Bieber’s music okay. It’s easy to sing along to–most of his songs are in my singing range–and he has a pretty boy-church-choir sort of voice (I used to be in a choir.) I’m not sure how you can define his music, or anything that is the subject of aesthetic preferences, as “objectively crappy” given that, obviously, some people find it enjoyable.
Did I seriously just get downvoted on Less Wrong for pointing out what music I like? And making the point that you can’t define something as ‘objectively crappy’, only as ‘subjectively crappy on average’ based on how many people like/dislike it–in fact, JB likely fails this test based on the sheer number of pre-teens and tweens who like his music. I think it’s just that a lot of people who aren’t tweens don’t want to signal affiliation with them. I would expect this of the commenters on a site like mlia, but not here.
I happen to like Justin Bieber’s music okay. It’s easy to sing along to–most of his songs are in my singing range–and he has a pretty boy-church-choir sort of voice (I used to be in a choir.) I’m not sure how you can define his music, or anything that is the subject of aesthetic preferences, as “objectively crappy” given that, obviously, some people find it enjoyable.
Did I seriously just get downvoted on Less Wrong for pointing out what music I like? And making the point that you can’t define something as ‘objectively crappy’, only as ‘subjectively crappy on average’ based on how many people like/dislike it–in fact, JB likely fails this test based on the sheer number of pre-teens and tweens who like his music. I think it’s just that a lot of people who aren’t tweens don’t want to signal affiliation with them. I would expect this of the commenters on a site like mlia, but not here.
To the extent that anything in aesthetics is objective, I think we can agree that most of these movies probably are, in fact, objectively crappy.
“Subjectively crappy on average” based on the sample population who has evaluated them.