Pop music and your opinion about it.

In other words, if a baker bakes delicious bread using their skills properly, wouldn't I be able to tell that the baker is skilled?

No, you wouldn't. :) After all, delicious bread can be made using a very simple recipe, which even a beginner can handle. An example from life: I learned to bake pizza the first time, and it was very tasty. But the recipe is extremely simple, and of course, I'm not a culinary master.
Essentially, this is about how even simple music can be beautiful - see Oxygen's comment about Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"; the same can be said for Bach's immortal "Prelude" and "Fugue," which are also well-known and very simple.

But if a baker selects 49 types of flour, yeast, wheat varieties, and so on, carefully and meticulously gathering and preparing them, and then bakes bread that turns out to be garbage, then the baker is more likely to be a *nasty word hinting at extreme incompetence* than someone who created something complex.

I agree, there are examples of that too. Try not just playing, but even listening to this:


I assure you, it sounds terrible. But the complexity is incredible, yes. 49 types of flour. :smile11:

And that's exactly what most metal bands suffer from, sometimes sacrificing the music itself and just shaking guitars in crazy 49 fifths per minute of the song. And there's absolutely no desire to rank such bands even one step above pop music.
No matter what, the main goal is this: "it's delicious"

That's exactly what I was talking about. :smile01: And Oxygen's post was also about that. Only with the caveat: we both love music, regardless of genre. And although we go to Metallica concerts, we don't feel ashamed that we also like Eminem. :smile04: