What the fuck is a "genre tourist"? Is this a new meme

>>75202200
t.toe-dipping genre tourist

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Someone who only listens to the albums in the top releases sections

>>75202235
t. embryo

>>75202235
t. sycophant

>>75202257
Stop using this word without knowing what it means just stick to saying everything's pretentious.

As someone who has never seen the term before just now, I'll attempt to understand it. Is it someone who does just a bit of research on a genre, listens to only the most notable albums, and then says they're a fan?

someone who just listens to the top 10 releases of every genre on rym rather than actually developing their own interests and exploring them like a normal person might do

>>75202200
>>75202235
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>>75202297
t. genre dilettantes

ITT: Incels talk among themselves

>>75202334
I like this one. Only a true patrician would know the word dilettante.

i'm a scaruffi-core, p4k-core, fantano-core /mu/core and reddit-core genre tourist and trend hopper AMA

It's someone who's never been in a scene AKA people with no friends.

Someone who thinks he is a music fan with a diverse musical taste but really can only do so because he is constantly alone and never has to find music that will appeal to his group of friends also.

Someone who knows less than 50 artists in his favorite musical genre.

Someone who doesn't have a favorite musical genre.

>>75202425
do you like death grips

>>75202512
yes, feeling a light to decent 7 on their discography overall

>>75202482
I fit this description for the most part, but my music collection probably contains a little bit of something for everyone, and whenever I talk to someone on the subject of music, I can carry the conversation extensively. I'm not part of a scene, or anything, I don't know many local or lesser known artists, but I listen to music that I and many others like. Is that so wrong?

So... what's the opposite of a genre tourist then?

>>75202663
being a trve kvlt METALHEAD \m/

>>75202586
Nah, you are okay, but autistic genre elitists will say otherwise.

Genres are just tools for categorization, better to judge every artist/band on an individual basis.

>>75202663
A genre colonist?

>>75202586
>Is that so wrong?

No, everything I said came out of my ass and I mentioned lonely people knowing I'm on 4chan and I'd get an answer instantly. Scenes are garbage and are only good to score cheap drugs and pussy.

>>75202663
a genre connoisseur
Someone who knows about a certain genre much further than what's top rated on RYM and what's occasionally shitposted on /mu/
You won't find much of these people here.

>>75202663
genre connoisseur of course

Term snowflakes made so they can sort out their inferiority complex.

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>>75202663
a local

>>75202334
t. pseud

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>>75202681
Connaisseur isn't the opposite of tourist you dips.
>>75202694
There you go! This guy is right. A local is a guy that stagnates only on one genre and never explores outside of what he knows.

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I just like music that sounds good

What am I?

>>75202749
a pleb, everyone knows you can only like music that makes you look cool

>>75202749
A pretty cool guy.

>>75202714
>A local is a guy that stagnates only on one genre and never explores outside of what he knows.
A genre connoisseur can very well be educated on other genres. He just avoids being an absolute basic bitch that listens to the same 10 albums as everyone else.

>>75202773
maybe people like those albums because they're good

>>75202749
Don't do that it could lead to renal failure.

>>75202779
I'm not saying popular albums are bad. I'm saying that only listening to those popular albums is the very definition of being a toe-dipping genre tourist.

>>75202792
no

>>75202792
eh i'm ok with being that then, i'd rather listen to all the music that's popular (and therefor probably good) before i have to sift through shit to find more good music

but that's everyone on this shithole lmao
you faggotrons barely step outside /mu/core
do you people have no curiousity or what?

>>75202806
not an argument

>>75202663
Subterranean

>>75202809
you moron, how are you going to know what's good or not if your concept of good only depends on what you're being spoonfed?

>>75202810
Why do you come here then?

lads....................

>what kind music are you into anon?
>oh you know a bit of everything
>what have you enjoyed lately
>Marvin Gaye, Buyer's Market, Dordeduh, the list goes on

....................tourism

>>75202826
What's the point of knowing what music is good or bad.

>>75202826
my concept of good only depends on my ears, lol

>>75202827
to shitpost, waifupost and shit on people's tastes

>>75202862
Patrician.

>>75202826
it's one degree separated from poptimism. why think for yourself when others can think for you?

>>75202857
clearly it depends on what's popular

>>75202871
And they're proud of it lmao. /mu/ needs elitism back.

>>75202891
I blame theneedledrop

>>75202891
Poptimism is elitism.

>>75202891
this. I'm sick of mu nu-males calling everyone who doesn't like their bland p4k/mucore contrarian poseurs.

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>first let's try out this jazz place, oh this post-rock place sounds really nice! this classical place has good reviews but i think we have to dress up

>>75203054
KEK

>>75202891
Keep whining about it, it's surely the way to make this happen. What about you make a thread with your obscure taste and see what happens. No one will reply to it and the thread will hit page 10 and die. Since 4chan's popularity increased, it's impossible to maintain a thread about something that doesn't already have a following. If you want to discover lesser known stuff, /mu/ isn't the place anymore.

Here's a thread chock full of them: >>75180023

>>75202905
Poptimism is not exactly elitist. It simply argues that shitty pop singles can be held to the same standards as art music.

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if bands tour, does that make them tourists?

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so many people here are jealous of me..it is quiet sad

>>75202276
worse, someone who only listens to the most popular modern stuff and starts acting like an expert
imagine if i listened to x's last album and acted like a hip hop authority. that's tourism.

>>75203509
No one does this though

>before /mu/
pink floyd, led zeppelin, queen, the list could go on

>first year on /mu/
neutral milk hotel, king crimson, kanye, the list could go on

>second year on /mu/
death grips, oneohtrix point never, can, the list could go on

>third year on /mu/
exuma, merzbow, LRD, the list could go on

>>75203643
ever checked any metal forum in history?

>>75203024
this

>>75203643
>>/rym/

>>75203655
accurate

put Radiohead in first year too

>>75202663
someone who only listens to non-critically acclaimed music, <6/10 only.

>>75203655
>>third year on /mu/
>exuma, merzbow, LRD, the list could go on

/mu/ barely gets on this level these days. it's stuck on the first year as more reddit indieheads come visit

>>75203054
saved

>>75203655
That's an awful progression

>>75203655
what the fuck are you retarded? did it seriously take you two years to listen to fucking CAN and death grips? I've been here for less than a year and I've listened to that shit before I even came here. Faggot.

>>75206304
death grips wasn't very well known outside of here a few years ago you moron

>>75206353
Lmao I remember seeing them get mentioned a lot back in 2013 on /r/music. Even fucking reddit knew about them ya pleb.

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>>75202878
I'm pretty sure interesting elements, presentation, cohesiveness, and replayablility make an album good rather than bad