Originally Posted by Lacrymas
Originally Posted by LordCrash

You know that this is quite insulting? People have many different reasons why they prefer certain music. There is genuinely nothing wrong with that. I don't think that there is any reason to look down on others just because they don't share your preferences.

Edit: I would also be careful when I use words like "serious" or "professional" in an environment in which I only want to devalue and dismiss certain stuff. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean that it's technically bad or unprofessional...


I'm not insulting anyone, I didn't say they *are* inferior, I said it makes them feel inferior. Serious music doesn't have the connotation you think it has. It's used to differentiate between Unterhaltungsmusik (U-musik) and serious music. U-musik is popular music that isn't done purely for art (like commercial music). It has no negative connotations.

Don't opt out so easily. You also said professional. And I'm pretty sure most Unterhaltungsmusik is pretty professional as well.

Also people don't automatically feel inferior if they don't understand what a composer wants to tell with his music. You can consume music on many levels. Many people stay happily on the melodic level and there's nothing wrong with that. If they don't like certain music it doesn't mean they feel inferior. That you imply that IS in fact insulting, sorry.

And it also becomes quite off-topic, since the music for Divinity was never supposed to be serious music (as you like to call it) but pure support for content that happens on the screen. You might not like the idea of that but that's just how it is. The only purpose for this kind of music is to support emotions and the action and content that is visually displayed on the screen and told by characters and sound effects imo.


WOOS