I chose mainstream pop. Almost all music has its pluses and its minuses. As long as it was made with a little soul, it can be some good music. Pop music, by and large, is a carefully-controlled formula for success, and lacks that passion, that soul, that makes true music good. It's less of a belief in what they're doing,then doing it at the behest of a few marketing heads and producers. Bleh.
Watching the Re:Generation Music Project last night, (really cool, check it out, by the way) and one of the projects was Skrillex teaming up with the surviving members of the Doors. While a lot of people would frown on his music, watching Sonny and the Doors begin to jam out and just have some damn fun making a crazy dubstep track brought a smile to my face, and made me like Sonny a little more than I did. There was fun, there was passion, there was soul, and it shows in that crazy-ass track they coughed up. Some would say that stuff is over-rated and not music, but watching the collaboration in that studio made it patently clear that music is music is music, and this bridges all genre and age.
No music should really be considered over-rated, but damn it if pop music doesn't come the closest. It fits the criteria, what with being the most popular kind of music (hence the name, eh?) but often the least interesting.
