Nickleback > The Beatles?!

True story... I can't make this stuff up!

I am sitting at work when I overhear my boss say that he is going to Vegas in a few weeks. I stand up and let him know that if he isn't planning on going to Cirque du Soleil that he should. Tessia and I went to a show on our honeymoon and it was amazing!!! I then let him know that if anything, you get to hear The Beatles in surround sound, and that's just rad.

Then...

A co-worker that sits next to me laughs and tells me that the Beatles aren't any good anyway and that there is much better music than The Beatles out there. I took the bate...

Me: "What could possibly be that much better than The Beatles?"

Coworker: "Nickleback..."

Me: "..."

I didn't know what to say, I threw up inside and just froze, so then I said...

Me: "Oh yeah, Creed and Three Doors Down are pretty sweet too!!!" super sarcastic!

CW: "I love those bands, they are the best bands ever..."

I crap you not... like I said, I can't make this stuff up.

Then, I laughed, rudely... and just said that Nickleback was aweful and that we obviously were on different pages when it came to talentless 2 chord jock rock bands...

It gets better...

CW: "I like jazz too..."

Me: "Like who..."

CW: "Kenny G."

Me: "That's not even jazz... it's elevator music."

CW: "You obviously have no taste..."

Me: "I'll take my Grant Green, Nels Cline and Sam Rivers records over that junk any day."

CW: "Whoever that is."

I don't even know what to say. It's sad what people listen to... I don't care if "they enjoy it"... maybe I am an elitist, but the music business is falling apart and I now believe that most consumers are to blame. Quit buying crappy music, it isn't fair to the people that actually enjoy art to have to deal with the crap on the radio... because it's not my fault that it's there. It's yours.