CronoDAS comments on Empirical claims, preference claims, and attitude claims - Less Wrong

5 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 15 November 2012 07:41PM

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Comment author: Swimmer963 14 November 2012 09:10:17PM 0 points [-]

Did it ever occur to you that maybe they simply mean what they said? That JB's music is objectively crappy music?

I happen to like Justin Bieber's music okay. It's easy to sing along to–most of his songs are in my singing range–and he has a pretty boy-church-choir sort of voice (I used to be in a choir.) I'm not sure how you can define his music, or anything that is the subject of aesthetic preferences, as "objectively crappy" given that, obviously, some people find it enjoyable.

Comment author: CronoDAS 14 November 2012 11:20:07PM 1 point [-]

To the extent that anything in aesthetics is objective, I think we can agree that most of these movies probably are, in fact, objectively crappy.

Comment author: Swimmer963 15 November 2012 08:16:47PM 0 points [-]

"Subjectively crappy on average" based on the sample population who has evaluated them.