At what age did you grow out of genre tourism?

No, it's listening to only the surface level, most well known albums of many different genres. It's perfectly fine to be a tourist in some genres but you should have at least one that you are more knowledgeable about if you actually are passionate about music

If you're a dilletante who listens to albums purely for the sake of checking off a list for social clout sure. You're not going to remember anything out of the album though.

Funny thing is if you look at intervews of your favourite artists/bands their tastes are quite tourist. Almost all of them will mention the beatles, along with a bunch of other big names you're bound to find on the Yas Forums essentials chart. These guys grow up listening to the same bunch of albums from a couple of artists over and over again 'till they have every single riff and lick commited to memory, not sitting around checking off a list of top most underground (and derivative) thrash bands with under 1000 scrobbles.

as a jazz student i never did

>there’s no way recognition and popularity are signs of top quality
cope

who are you quoting?

oh okay, that's cool. I guess I'm not a tourist. The mindset behind calling people tourists is kind of lame though, you can't expect your average joe to take music is serious as you do. Enjoy what you like and let simple people be simple however, when simple people pretend to be knowledgeable is when I can't overlook it.

the guy I quoted

nice strawman faggot, go back to r/eddit

Most of them will name drop popular artists in interviews because it's appropriate and usually someone is there trying to make a comparison, but I would bet most artists enjoy a lot of music beyond that of the average listener and simply aren't name-dropping every obscure artist they can think of in interviews for clout with journos.

agreed, it would be pretty lame if someone asked an artist I like or myself what my influences are and I start spouting the Yas Forums copypasta that starts with Merzbow.