PRETENTIOUS PRETENSION???

Why is it that as soon as people don't understand something they refer to it as pretentious? AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

True, there is definitely pretentious stuff out there, but much of what people refer to as pretentious couldn't be further from it. In fact, it's a god damn polar opposite most of the time!

This word "pretentious" has become to easily utilized. It's too liberally applied, like the term genius. As an artist I consider the long and difficult road to expression a deeply soul-searching and spiritual experience, that can help find the truth about my own personal existence as well as have me wanting to kill myself. Looking for honesty, clarity (when possible), emotion, etc...is certainly NOT pretentious.

Why the fuck would someone put themselves through that shit? Swim through a cesspool of ego battling physical and mental exhaustion? To put on a charade? To turn up one's nose and refuse the basic desire of making a connection with someone out there? What a fucking JOKE.

Let us examine the definition of the term:

PRENTENTIOUS - attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed

So that would imply that the creator of this "pretense" doesn't know what the fuck he is doing. For example, I hardly think that Ligeti's music is pretentious. After all, he was a master at conjuring complicated emotions and capturing a modernity 100 years into the future. He was being true to himself and not giving into compromise.

I think there should be a second definition added:

PRETENTIOUS - One who pretends to dislike something in order to cover up his lack of understanding of it and to protect his ego from honesty and truth.

Motherfuckers...Don't group the good stuff in with that fucking bullshit school art like they have at PS1 all the time or all the poser musicians that don't even know how to fucking play...