The Universe, Summarized

                So, recently, I have been thinking a lot about musical tastes. Specifically, musical tastes between generations. First, let me give a little back-story. While perusing YouTube, I stumbled on a video from around 3 years ago , in which a mom rants for some length about the song “ Norf Norf ” by Vince Staples. She reads through the lyrics of the song, remarking that she is horrified that music like this is being played on radios (even if it is censored,) and that she would never let her daughter listen to such an unwholesome song. At a few points she really breaks down, and completely rages about music these days and how bad it is. Needless to say, the video went somewhat viral on Facebook (this was like 2013 or ‘14 so people still used Facebook,) and she got roasted by a lot of people on the internet. After that, the guy that made the song ended up coming out and defending her, saying that everyone is entitled to their opinion, an...

                Movies, TV shows, books, video games, music, and pretty much all forms of entertainment have tons of internal variation, and are also subject to close critical scrutiny. We all have our personal criteria for what makes a movie good or bad, and a lot of times, these criteria are vastly different. For example, there were a lot of people who liked the 2012 adaptation of The Hobbit, but there were also a lot of people who hated it. What’s interesting is, a lot of people liked and hated it for a huge amount of different reasons. Some people said that it was way too far from the book, others thought it was overly long, and still others simply did not like the book in the first place.  Now, we have all been told “everybody’s different” or some variant of that, so me saying that everyone has different taste probably sounds pretty obvious to you. However, in my opinion, it is actually shocking how similar our tastes really are. Let me...