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[Night Owl]

Took the words right out of my mouth. All music is CATALYST, whether or not is it then polarized positively or negatively is dependent on the individual. The lower triad centers are NOT STS, and they also need to be energized, balanced and empowered. Receiving a charge in one of the lower centers has absolutely nothing in the slightest to do with being or experiencing STS or STO, it is how the charge is used within the self that determines what polarity results from the catalyst.

An entity can even have their attempts backfire if they're trying to inspire a certain polarity by an individual whom is already choosing their polarity.

In my opinion, people who struggle with any type of music are really just struggling with emotions. They don't like the emotions which the music brings up in them and unable to accept this they villianize the music as being the "cause" behind the feelings when really I think the feelings were already there and unaccepted with the music merely drawing them out.

I am someone who struggle to like pop music not because of the emotions but because of the ideas cultivated behind it. When I hear it I feel bad physically and energetically. When I think about pop music it seems pretty negative. Do you think I have or am the problem?

Pop music is mainly about sex, power and self expression or peer acceptance. I have no problem with those emotions as they are certainly normal for most human beings but I just am not looking for that when listening to any music. So far I don't think I would be categorized under what you described.

Pop music seems to cultivate ignorance, a lack of effort into any step of the music creation process, a tendancy to priorize fame, money, fast and cheap production, quantity over quality and great disrespect for the many geniuses that have worked hard all their life to further advance mankind knowledge of the many aspects of music. Since the days mankind has discovered music some people have brought immense contributions to instruments crafting quality and features, composing techniques or pushing the boundaries and limits of music genres and it has been an ever complexifying structure toward greatness. But since pop music exist it seems like it's going backward and the quality criterias are constantly going downward.

The more it goes the less people are involved and the less they care, the less instruments are used, the less lyrics have meaning and the less people are aware of the existence of quality music. In the 60s-70s radio used to play what people thought was good until MTV showed up and it became about visuals and sexy looking girls dancing and radio started to decide what would be popular. Now few people make the difference between what is popular and what is good.

Being that good is a really subjective thing, I notice how people who doesn't make the difference are simply not aware that there are other kind of musics than what is thrown at them by the radios. Of course most people just don't listen to that much music but the fact that the target audience for radios are the people who really just aren't that much into music seems to indicate that their priority is money. I have studied at a music school and I think I can safely say that those who have music as one of their interests whether they like classic, jazz, rock, funk, blues, metal or else all agree on the fact that pop music is a downgrade from any other genre. Even though they are not all my cup of tea, they all have my respect and I think after that it really comes down to preferences of what you want as an interaction with music as some musics are made to energize the heart, some are made to energize the mind and some to energize the body. I like when I can find all three of them in one genre but I totally understand how some people just prefer one of those aspects in particular and don't like the others to be stimulated by music and prefer an other medium.

It is simply a tendancy and I can say I have liked many albums from bands that really aren't pop that have tried a more catchy or radio-friendly approach. But overseeing it's evolution from the creation of pop it really seems to be more harmful to the music industry than anything else. There may be positive effects as the bands who do make a living out of their work have to do the best they can to remain there but the fact remains that fewer people can make a living out of it. Now unless you make 3 minutes catchy songs with a cool looking attitude there is really few hope that you will be considered by music distribution companies. Unless you come from the US or UK it is easier to make money by doing covers or doing replicas of popular bands. Where I live that's almost all there is. Maybe that's not as obvious for someone who lives in those big economic centers.

I think I am blessed to be able to know how to search and find good music and that I can listen to what I want but if I didn't knew how to I would end up partaking in the what seems to be the destruction of the music industry. I am actually really surprised how much good music continues to come out but from what I see most of the best bands I know just don't make a living from their music and it is a shame because they deserve to be rewarded for such hard work.

I really try to see both sides of the coin but I've been really much in contact with music and even though I try to stay open minded I have never succeeded at liking pop music. Even country which I disliked all my life I have succeeded at finding something that I like at some point. I think there is good and bad in everything but I don't find positive things to say about pop music except that it can be positive catalyst. I have liked a couple of michael jackson songs which I think is pop but really when I see how much the visual aspect of this kind music takes so much space it's not something that's gonna end up on my playlist often and I'm not even sure it can still be considered pop as pop has come a long way downward since he was popular. But he is an excellent exemlple that even among pop music the quality of composition has deteriorated significantly because his songs really groove and are very melodic and you don't find this kind of quality pop today.

So yes when I think about pop music in general I have a pretty dark picture of it. According to you am I the problem or is my idea of it really distorted? Have I a problem to process something? Do I miss a catalyst? Of course I can still find love for the individuals but the fact remains that even though the sound coming from the speaker is not STS it seems like their work is done out of ignorance or really self centered. Even if I try to see it in a positive way it just seems to me like pop music is neither done out of love and neither out of wisdom. Maybe it is done out of humor to the creator. Maybe it is done so that some people learn to let some people do whatever they want out of STO catalyst. Maybe the universe needs to explore the infinite opposite of quality to create a chain of reaction to explore infinite quality.