A Letter From A Not-So-Mainstream Person
March 30, 2014
There's nothing wrong with having a special interest in things that are from the past.
Old music, old movies, old clothes, old books, old stories, old historical people, anything.
It's the way we explore the world.
It's the way we keep us updated.
It's the way we find pleasure.
It's just the same as what you do with the presents.
There's nothing wrong with being a fan of stuffs that only a few people know about.
Indie music, not-so-popular movies, books from I've-never-heard-of writers, unpopular actors, whatever.
What if they have way better qualities than the popular ones?
What if they gain much praise than the popular ones gain?
It's really a shame if you only can appreciate the mainstream stuffs,
you're dumb if you keep your door closed for the unpopular.
There's nothing wrong with loving non-English-language stuffs.
Watching non-English-language movies, or listening to their music, just do it.
Yes, English is an international language almost everybody learns.
But is that a guarantee for you to understand every single word spoken in an English movie,
or every single lyric sung in an English song?
Or is it just you being so disrespectful toward the non-English-speaking-countries' creations?
Or is it just you underestimating every stuff they make just because they're not in English?
A Spanish movie?
Go watch it first, and then you can say whether it's good or bad.
A French song?
Come on, listen to it or else you can't say a critic.
It's wrong if you judge something just by its language.
Being a person who likes to keep himself surrounded by not-so-mainstream stuffs is not a sin.
Most people don't find our things pleasurable, that's totally fine, everyone has their own taste.
They say that we don't understand music or cinema, oh it's okay.
We've been told by many people that we have a strange taste of artwork, well they might be right.
But, there's this one thing that's been inside their souls that they haven't seen;
They only can appreciate common things, things that the majorities know and like, they've been used to enjoy those things so when they catch something unfamiliar, they don't care if it's a good one or not, they reject them straight away just because they have never heard of those things before. They are programmed to accept only the mainstream stuffs. Truth is, they're the ones who don't understand how to appreciate artworks. Because when you refuse to watch a movie just because it's in Spanish, or refuse to listen to a '60s song because it's old, or refuse to check out an alternative rock band because oh the genre is not so familiar, then you're a pretty subjective person and no you don't have a great taste of whatever it is because when you do, you must have seen them objectively.
I'm not here to persuade you to also put interests in rare things.
I believe that everyone has their own taste of music, movies, books, etc.
But it bothers me a little bit every time I see a person judging something subjectively,
saying something isn't good just because it's not popular,
just because it doesn't fit their taste,
or seeing a person refusing to check out on something just because a stupid subjective reason.
Just..., please, people, learn not to be a close-minded person.
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