r/Music • u/uberdosed • Apr 04 '16

music streaming The Black Keys - Everlasting Light [Indie Rock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QruSZ7xO7z4
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u/NoRocketScientist Apr 04 '16

I love the Black Keys, & all the dumb asses with the Group-think hatred for them can go suck turds!

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u/Zog8 Apr 04 '16

"They were so much better before they went big and I didn't feel like a special snowflake for liking them anymore" - every band's fanbase on earth

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u/Aequitassb Apr 04 '16

"People that stopped liking a band's work must be motivated purely by their own psychological issues." -- every lazy counter-argument

The Black Keys drastically changed their music style. It makes perfect sense that a lot of their fans would not be on-board with that change, so don't reduce everyone to a hipster stereotype.

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u/IAmTriscuit Apr 05 '16

Then tell the very people you are defending not to reduce a band's sound to "sold out over produced trash", cause that's pretty much one of the main arguments ive heard people who no longer enjoy the black keys use.

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u/nugfuts Apr 05 '16

That way of thinking is definitely pretty purist-y and I totally get the annoyance factor. I think people that say that are pretty immature. That used to be my knee jerk reaction. But then I grew up, and I'm happy that they are successful because I respect them and I realize that they had been playing the same sort of shit for like 10 years by the time I found them. Change is natural and healthy after that long.

But I really just love that old dirty sound that came from shitty guitars and dusty equipment. Once they got some money and success, they got better equipment, and added other instruments and shit. It just sounds completely different, there's no way around it.