like the spice girls! which one is your favourite?

Nobody does it for the money, c'mon. It's all about the hoes amiright?

I submit that it is TOTALLY ok to be in it for the bitches.

ooooOOOOoooOOO im tellin your wife!

wait.

so its not ok to be in it for the bitches.

crap.

Ok, I feel ya ESC haha

thanks bit shifter for picking up on the importance of the full caps "ONLY", you guys should know by now that i hate capital letters ( i dont even use them in my name, ever), so me using them for an entire word means massive fucking emphasis....i just hate fakers, and if you make music ONLY because its easier than a day job or you think youll get rich, famous and fucked by supermodels and you have no passion for making music, youre a fake in my book

I would like to draw the attention of this thread back to this photo:

In that specific scenario I agree Josh.

The key factor is the listeners interpretation of the piece. Some people hear Lady GAGA and think its the greatest music ever made, full of depth and vast meaning. Others dont lol

" artist's intentions (which, you're right, are rarely knowable for sure -- but you can often guess pretty well) "  How can you say you cant confirm anything, but assume your guess is right? Maybe im not following you?

I guess I just feel like the end result is only part of the picture. That's just me. Different people have different affinities for music, and that's fine. To me personally, an artist's intentions (which, you're right, are rarely knowable for sure -- but you can often guess pretty well) are almost as important as the musical result. If I feel like I'm being pandered to by a song, a band, whatever, I'm basically going to lose interest instantly, and that's a reaction having very little to do with how catchy a song is, or how well it's performed / produced. So that's one example of what I mean by artistic intentions, context, and so on. On some level I feel like most people -- especially people passionate about music -- have to feel somewhat the same way, no?

You would never know the motivation. Humans add meaning to everything, especially to things that have no obvious meaning. That's what we do best. That's why some people see "Mary" in Toast and "Elvis" at bus stops.

You may or may not like the song, but if you didnt know a robot wrote it, you may try and figure out where the writer was coming from based on your experience of the piece.

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

While I agree that we'll never know why anyone does anything, I think the reason does matter. We all know of genres and acts that really are style over substance, and many are all the better for it. It's not all about the end product, at least in my opinion.

I see what you are saying here. I agree. I also add "Why does it matter what the reason was the artist did it?" You will never actually know why. So why bother discussing it.

If people enjoy the end result, I think that is what matters.

This is what I want to do, and I want to do it because I enjoy it, not because of the money. The only reason I'd do it for money, is becauseI wouldn't have time to do that, and have a job.