Know anyone who actively dislikes film scores?

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

As a kid, I received a lot of dismissal and discouragement from family members who found my interest in film scores an annoyance and maybe even a hindrance to my development. My older brother was particularly resistant to my interest, demanding to know why I never gave a hoot about the Top 40 charts and could be a plain arsehole about some of the more overtly dramatic film scores I liked. He even insisted I was a homer sexual because of it!

 

A publisher I worked for years ago ran a film related magazine, so I queried him on his favourite film scores and noted I was an avid collector, and he just looked down his nose at me and asked why I would listen to something that's meant to be part of the "collaborative process"? His attitude was rather dismissive and snide, so I never really spoke to him in a casual manner again.

 

Anyone else know someone who actively dislikes film scores?

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

Not outright dislike, just those that are baffled by the concept of listening to music outside of the film, or "music without lyrics? Doesn't that get boring?". 

Not to mention the sheer number of scores I own from films I've either never seen or don't care about...and then there's Robert Folk's A Troll in Central Park. 

[Brundlefly 2,385]

1 minute ago, kaseykockroach said:

"music without lyrics? Doesn't that get boring?". 

This. But honestly I never listened to lyrics, even when I was a huge Queen fan.

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

The only time I care about lyrics is when I'm listening to Muppet or Disney albums. 

[Brundlefly 2,385]

It is, however, marveling that so many people don't get the concept of enjoying dramatic music. I mean, dissonances are what makes music music. What is their point? That the emotional range of the music I listen to is too big? That it is not boring enough?

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

I do still feel an inherent embarrassment when I see a score album at Half Price Books and go up to buy it...I doubt the cashier cares, it's just my meek nature acting up. If I recall correctly, the last time I bought an album in person (rather than online) was Inside Out. 

[Holko 9,526]

One of my friends always says "Why are you listening to sound effects?"

[A24 4,337]

You should answer that with: "Why are we friends again?"

[Docteur Qui 1,544]

I did a bit when I was younger, but after I decided I would be a professional musician/composer I thankfully didn't get any weird looks any more. 

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

Why wouldn't you want to listen to sound effects?

 

 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Just for clarification, this is more about people with a real chip on their shoulders about film scores, not necessarily your own anxieties about buying scores in a shop.

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

I know, I meant to elaborate that I was referring to how I expect weird reactions to score fans in public. Especially if I'm buying a score to a film I've never seen and such.

[Thor 7,506]

4 hours ago, kaseykockroach said:

Not outright dislike, just those that are baffled by the concept of listening to music outside of the film, or "music without lyrics? Doesn't that get boring?". 

 

Yup, that. But I used to encounter this reaction far more often years ago than today.

[crocodile 8,017]

4 hours ago, kaseykockroach said:

Not outright dislike, just those that are baffled by the concept of listening to music outside of the film, or "music without lyrics? Doesn't that get boring?". 

 

I am baffled by my own hobby, to be honest.

 

Karol

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

1 hour ago, crocodile said:

I am baffled by my own hobby, to be honest.

 

Karol

 

Ditto. What kinda person latches on to the background music in a movie anyway?

 

 

[A24 4,337]

It's like giving attention to the soil and not the flowers.

[Bespin 8,483]

My husband always says to me : "MY GOD, THIS IS SOOO DRAMATIC what you listen to!!!"

 

[NL197 368]

Actively dislikes composers and takes the time to crap all over them like a hobby? Absolutely...though I don't know them personally. Just in places like this online. 

 

Know anyone who dislikes film scores? No. I don't really share it with anyone and the few who do know about my interest, they think it's kind of cool and sometimes they'll pay attention to what they hear when they watch movies. 

[A24 4,337]

58 minutes ago, Bespin said:

My husband always says to me : "MY GOD, THIS IS SOOO DRAMATIC what you listen to!!!"

 

 

Why did you marry him?

[mstrox 6,651]

9 hours ago, Denise Bryson said:

Anyone else know someone who actively dislikes film scores?

 

 

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[Bespin 8,483]

9 minutes ago, Alexcremers said:

Why did you marry him?

 

For many reasons I can't tell here!

[A24 4,337]

[Kasey Kockroach 2,344]

-looks at previous post and discovers typos and missing the point of the topic-

 

Wow, lesson learned. Don't post at 4am, kids.

[Richard Penna 3,692]

Even the most extreme 'anti-score' people I've met really just find it weird that someone can be interested in 'background' music that has no lyrics. Never come across anyone who actively doesn't like it.

 

Although when I go on my group trips in the States and select a playlist for when I'm minibus DJ, the only soundtrack cues you're going to hear from me will be those that are instantly recognisable to everyone (Indy, JP, Potter).

[Cerebral Cortex 3,357]

16 hours ago, Holko said:

One of my friends always says "Why are you listening to sound effects?"

 

I haven't actually listened to Dunkirk since it came out. Probably should revisit it soon. 

 

I kid, I kid...

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

As an addendum, my brother, being the rigid conformist twat that he was, would often react as if I'd done something really "naughty" if I dared venture into popular music from previous decades.

 

If he caught me listening to Michael Jackson or Duran Duran, he'd be like "why are you listening to that for? It's so 80s!" Same reaction if I wanted to spin something from the 60s or 70s.

 

I remember this being a culturally significant characteristic of the 90s while growing up in it, the arbitrary importance of being up-to-date with popular culture, especially music, or else be branded "old" and "not with it", as well as a collective shame and embarrassment of styles and fashions of previous decades. This attitude seems to have faded out a lot over the last decade, probably due to the strong online nostalgia movement, but I haven't been around teenagers for a long time, so maybe that warps my perspective.

[Cerebral Cortex 3,357]

38 minutes ago, Denise Bryson said:

I remember this being a culturally significant characteristic of the 90s while growing up in it, the arbitrary importance of being up-to-date with popular culture, especially music, or else be branded "old" and "not with it", as well as a collective shame and embarrassment of styles and fashions of previous decades. This attitude seems to have faded out a lot over the last decade, probably due to the strong online nostalgia movement, but I haven't been around teenagers for a long time, so maybe that warps my perspective.

 

I feel that this generation currently is very musically open-minded and receptive, perhaps because of how much more readily available music is now. Whatever the reason, it is something that is great to see (or hear, I suppose).  

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

No.

[Cerebral Cortex 3,357]

Now, that is quite true. I hadn't considered that, if I'm being honest.  

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

49 minutes ago, Cerebral Cortex said:

Now, that is quite true. I hadn't considered that, if I'm being honest.  

Oh, I was answering the topic question though I suppose it does look like I was snarkily replying to your post (which I agree with for the most part, despite the fact that I know plenty of musically closed-minded people in my generation (some in the film score world!))