Bad Opinions II: Badder Opinions • Page 23

I don’t speak Spanish either. The music still sounds fucking great.

 

Be positive about Benito instead of negative about Taylor! It’s more fun!

 

I didn't really like the album, but I like him. I'm positive in plenty of other threads, I'm good!

 

damn i only got 119...

 

BUILT DIFFERENT

 

I know that convo is a joke but I do think that the letterboxd logging of movies and music causes people to care more about how much they consume vs actually thinking about the things they consume. A person who has seen 65 2026 movies this year is so much less interesting to me than a person who is going back through the decades.

 

I'm at almost 100 new albums from previous years too, don't worry bud

 

(built different)

 

Albums don’t bother me as much as films honestly. You can crank out 5 albums in the morning. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen someone confidently saying dumb shit about movies and when I click their LB (always linked in bio) they’ve watched 4 movies before 1997.

Here is where i will get pretentious or “bad”: You could come out of the womb and listen to the new Olivia Rodrigo album and I would put as much weight on your opinion as anyone else, but I truly do think that people need to be educated on the history and grammar of cinema before I can really pay attention or trust in what they are saying. @Morrissey can probably weigh in here too.

 

listen to every oh sees and king giz record before posting imo

 

Seems fair to me

 

I've listened to every single Beatles solo album and collab albums, is that good enough

 

I simply cannot imagine consuming a triple digit quantity of albums in a year and being able to appreciate them, and like actually take them in. Simply not how brain connects to music. I prefer to just sit in certain albums/artists that I have in heavy rotation for a time.

Movies I do want to consume more widely and regularly. But, my current home setup isn’t ideal for that. Need to get some things moved around and figured out and shit, so it’s easier to just throw a cool movie on in the evening.

 

(I’m pretty sure I’m still sitting on a Criterion subscription that I haven’t been able to make proper use of in forever, lol.)

 

I mean I'm definitely not fully appreciating all of them. It's a triage operation to some extent

 

I just do both, I have a lot of daily listening. I'm in the middle of my 11th full album today and none were a first-time listen

 

How conscious of these albums are you as you listen to them?

 

Today specifically, 3 hours is my commute and the rest while working. 100% engaged in car, 60-80% at work depending who comes by to bother me at my desk

 

Why stop at movies, tv, and music? People should go through the decades (/the centuries) with books too. Resonating with art from across the world or from a totally different era is a uniquely human experience, and everyone should know what that feels like.

 

It's an effort for me to keep a decent rotation going tbh, i am still finding an equilibrium i think

 

good doing a lot of heavy lifting here

 

Ok I guess that makes sense? Still not how music would work for me, but I get how that’d work for others.

 

six albums today hope that doesn't offend

 

6 plus the currently going Phish show

 

I obviously agree with the basic idea of encouraging people to read more.

Just responding to the framing that opens the post, though. To be fair. A lot of people don’t have it in them to go deep on too many mediums simultaneously. I think it’s reasonable to have different relationships to different mediums, some more casual and some more active.

(For example, I watch basically no television regularly these days, lol. And I’m ok with that.)