This music speaks to me... to you, not so much

[Undertoad]

When it comes to music, what we think is "genuine" is totally a product of our upbringing and experience.

I personally cannot abide anything with a banjo in it, but that's because I was abused by a step-parent and he used a banjo in the act.

No, I don't know why it is that I cannot stand a banjo. I feel like I'm not alone in this. But it's not really a mature, considered opinion. There should be nothing wrong with a banjo. Fine folk instrument, for those people who like that sort of thing, of whom I am not one of 'em.

And I'm not sure why I'm allergic to genuine folk. I was exposed to enough of it as a child. But I think there's something generational about it. Dylan went electric in 1965. I was two. Well, it seemed like a realistic move to me, at the time.

The point is, we all have a different take on what is "genuine" to us, what gives meaning to music for us, and when we say the music that we like is "better" we are actually just trying to confirm our experience of what we think is genuine.