First Nicki Minaj, where even her own fans on ATRL are terrified by her pop and dance music success because they see it as "low-brow" (unaware of the irony), and now Taylor Swift. It's very odd to see "meltdowns", when really at the end of the day all that should matter is one thing: is the music any good?

I'm just very curious why this is. Logic dictates that a forum full of homosexual men would celebrate diversity, instead of actively trying to demean and put people into boxes.

I honestly have no idea. I don't know why producers like Max Martin and Dr. Luke get labelled as being generic on here. I mean, we stan for the most famous pop stars in the world for crying out loud. How much more generic can you get? We don't stan for obscure, niche, rock bands that not many people know about, or undiscovered EDM producers that you personally found on SoundCloud.

I honestly think it's just used as a form of shade when people don't have anything else to use. If a song like 'Part Of Me' or 'Die Young' is a bop that everyone is singing and enjoying, and it charts well, the only insult that can be used is "oh well whatever it's generic." News flash: generic is just another way of saying popular. Popular music might as well be called generic music if you want to put a negative spin on it. If songs sound similar in 2014, it's because that's the current, popular sound that is currently "in" - if a song "sounds like early 90s hip hop" or "sounds like "late 70s disco" then that's because that was the popular sound at that time. If you people existed back then, you would would stan for those artists while being the same uppity hipsters low-browing that sound as being "generic" just because it was popular.

Realise how ridiculously hypocritical you're being. You're low-browing successful producers while stanning for pop stars.