What is "good" music?

Apparently you can't like mainstream/popular music because it makes you a "sheep" or have "bad tastes". Yes it's a very retarded mindset.

*And why isn't this in the Speakeasy or even Entertainment section? This is far from a spam thread.

Have a feeling it could be derailed rather quickly. Otherwise I would have put it in Speakeasy.

What I think of music is just our instinct to like things we are used to. And that thing is our own heartbeat. Something steady, that tends to be constant, yet with armonic changes when your state changes.

That's what I like about music. With a mix of different sounds, it brings a huge variety of emotions.

Now look at Lady Gaga's Judas, and tell me what it brings you.

I completely agree with you about the bolded section. That's also my answer to your final question about Judas. Though I am one who listens to Gaga outside the club, when walking around campus or things like that, I'll say that the one place I'd have to say is my favorite to listen to that song is at the club. It brings me the kind of emotion I want to have while dancing in a dark room with pulsating colored lights and smoke machines. But again, that's just one genre for one locale. If I was sitting inside staring into the rain falling against my window, I'd probably turn on Fragrance of Dark Coffee.

What I love most about music is, again, what you said, but also the vice versa of what you said: the idea that music can both create/inspire/build an emotion in you, and/or an already existent emotion can be underscored by particular music, enhanced and magnified to a degree that allows for more introspective reflection on the emotion itself.