Reddit reviews Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (33 1/3)
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You may be interested in the 33 1/3 title Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. Really great read about the subjectivity of taste... I think it should be required reading for this sub.
If you guys like his style, I would highly recommend his 33 1/3 book on Celine Dion's "Let's Talk About Love". It more or less breaks down subjective taste in a really entertaining way. Best of the series, for sure.
Taste is a huuge subject-- there are books devoted to it. It's not something easily covered in a Reddit thread.
But I'll say this-- taste is social, right? It's built from the things people value together, based on past experiences. The random notes you bash out on a keyboard might impress some contemporary classical community if they've truly never heard anything more compelling, or if they value the sorts of things that make random notes interesting to them.
The contemporary classical community, though, isn't made of just one set of values. You'll see fans of artists like Jennifer Walshe, who are more interested in spontaneity or creative expression than harmonic tricks. Or you'll have the New Amsterdam Records crowd, which values accessibility and naked emotion.
When you find yourself confronted with a piece that's unfamiliar to you, it helps to ask questions like this: what might fans of this piece value? And how successfully does this piece deliver those things relative to other pieces with a similar aesthetic ?
A really great read in regards to this is Carl Wilson's book about Celine Dion. He talks a lot about why Pierre Bordieu's notion of culture and media production can be related to tastes in music.
If you'd like to know more I can go into more detail.
This book would fit exactly what you're looking for: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Celine-Dions-Lets-Talk-About/dp/082642788X
It basically asks fundamental questions about taste and sentimentality. Also how taste is linked with class.
You should read Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson. It explores this question, and, more specifically, why do so many people hate Celine Dion?