Welcome to my twisted meme

i want to first say that all of this i say out of love and thirst for truth. i know there’s going to be major issues after what i have to say, and i accept that. please know that i am the same person you’ve liked and respected. i consider myself a seeker of truth and all i want is to raise consciousness. this is going to be difficult to read but i urge you to read the whole thing, think about what i’ve said, and come to your own conclusions. there are a lot of questions i’m asking that have been forbidden but they need to be asked, and when questions are forbidden in a movement something is extremely wrong. 

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as “the greatest or most significant or most influential” rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. 

Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. 

The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.

In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians.

If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. 

This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.

Less opinion, more information. ORIGINAL VIDEO THAT STARTED IT ALL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgiJJpPTqg0 LEAFY’S INITIAL REACTION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShbBDjQ7zpA The drama could’ve easily ended here. Pyro steps in and most likely accidentally fucks things up (explained later): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRpljepxhS4 H3′S RESPONSE TO PYRO WITH CONTEXT PROVIDED ON PRIVATE MESSAGES: https://www.reddit.com/r/h3h3productions/comments/4birmk/in_response_to_pyros_video/ MEANWHILE, LEAFY UPLOADS SECOND VIDEO ON H3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqVAfuq48tY People think it ends here, that Ethan is roasted, and Leafy is the one who wins. No. It continues with: ETHAN GIVING MORE INFORMATION ON LEAFY: https://www.reddit.com/r/h3h3productions/comments/4bqz7f/in_response_to_leafys_video/ PYRO IS MAKING A 20 MIN VIDEO ON ALL THIS: (to be added) Would be great if you reblogged this for everyone to see additional source. Now, if you want an observation of what happened and somewhat justification from what we’ve got: