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I have an idea for a new reality TV series. We gather 10 different personalities & 3 judges to comment on the contestants’ taste in music. Good idea? You know, since these days there are many over-confident people going round condemning other people’s taste in music so why not have a reality show for them to show off their fantastic good taste? Bodoh kot. Firstly, who are they to tell other people their music’s crap? Secondly, have they written good songs played on air? Thirdly, what level of intelligence gives them the thought that they listen to good music? Lastly, ada ke definition of good & bad music?

For starters, music is universal. There’s no such thing as noise. Even trucks hustling down a rocky pavement with drivers screaming in suara katak is music. Music is an expression of auditory communication. You may think ketuk-ketuk pinggan mangkuk kat belakang dapur is noise, but some people think it’s a song. Just because you lack the depth to appreciate something, doesn’t make you a person with good taste to judge others.

And what’s this about labeling girls who listen to hardcore songs? Salah ke? What, listening to mental impairing songs makes us less feminine? But wearing skimpy clothes, getting drunk & groping a guy all over without the sense of guilt does? Wtf? And listening to metal makes a person morally deficient? But being judgmental & throwing baseless comments on a person’s interest makes you morally supreme? Gila pe?

And so what if people listen to the Backstreet Boys? I listen to boy bands and adore Britney Spears. So I’m lame la? What is lame in the first place? Bila pulak you were made editor of the Webster Dictionary to define what’s what? Lame is a person who doesn’t know what’s going on. That’s lame. So instead of me, a boyband listener being lame, it’s you people who don’t even know the meaning of the word but label people who don’t fit the definition who are lame. Malu sangat nak admit they listen to pop. Tapi sibuk gila nak tell the whole world they listen to underground. Kira cool la if you listen to underground? "Ooh, I listen to underground. I’m so cool! My cicak roommate listens to Click 5. Gila High School Musical dia tu. Lame! Hihihihi!" Prft.

Look, if you’re afraid to admit who you are because you fear what people might think of you, why not you stay in a sangkar burung & never budge? Only then no one would know of your existence hence make no such judgments on you. This world is real la. Pretenders don’t last long. So what if your friends think you’re stupid for listening to music they don’t listen to? What, your sense in music determines where you’ll end up in life? "Ahmad dengar dangdut, sebab tu dia tak hensem-hensem".

Even if you really hate a certain genre (I admit I don’t like dangdut) but there are moral guidelines you should abide by as educated people.

1. Don’t label a person lame, immoral, unfeminine solely based on the music he/she listens to

2. If your fat mouth really can’t hold in the comment, don’t comment when the person is doing you a favour laaaaa e.g. serving you drinks, giving you a ride, entertaining your lonely grampa.

3. Don’t comment when you yourself lack a strong musical background.

The music you listen to doesn’t necessarily mould you into the image the music brings e.g. listening to A7X makes you goth, Rock Kapak makes you Mat Rempit, Marilyn Manson makes you anti-Christ, Britney makes you bald, Good Charlotte a father to a bastard and Mawi a Jawa. It’s all up to the listener if he/she wants to be easily influenced.

Just because you stand on the other side of the brink, it neither means you’re on higher grounds nor it means you have the privilege to splash water onto the other side. You think you’re so good? There are others better than you la dude.

Respect others man. Face the music. Baru boleh capai Wawasan 2020.