the one word that's ruining music 

Mid The Snare (I haven’t watched the video)

L + mid + ratio + disliked + you’re a nerd + the part about “mid” music reminding us of our own personal failings and the trappings of our society really got to me. Music has the power to temporarily make us forget about the hellhole we live in, and I assume that when we see our real fears start to leak into our own mental bubble, we get defensive. Music itself doesn’t have the power to change the conditions of our world, but it can inspire people to start looking for solutions to build a better future + unsubscribed + mid

Mid has not only ruining the music discourse, it has also ruining movie discourse. I only know one truth. It’s time for the use of mid to end.

I mean, mid is being used for everything not just music. Just art in general. Video games and movies also get mid applied to them.

"the banal horror that is people loudly sharing their opinions online" can't believe you summed up the entire internet in one sentence, Mic!

I'm a metalhead. I respect all music. Just because someone dislikes certain genres doesn't mean that they don't respect it. I wish more people had that mentality.

People should start using the term "holographic meatloaf" to describe boring music more simply because it sounds funnier.

One thing I disagree is the "you criticize because you're jealous" argument (a formula similar and easily confusable to "what if what we don't like about music is what we don't like about ourselves"). Yes, the spammers that put "MID" on everything could be that, but extrapolating every criticism about others as a mirror to what we see about us is just minimizing what criticism could be. Cultural critique is important, and people should try it, and criticism is important when it's done fairly (no one is the judge to say criticism could be done "right"). The discourse is key to understand how communal any artistic manifestation is in this day and age, so we gotta be responsable and do it fairly. Thanks for the thoughts and analysis, Mr. T. Snare.

The fact that it sometimes totally replaces meaningful discussions is the most infuriating part. Just a one-word consensus and that’s it

I love all the "mid" puns. Applying it to any artist or band names (even to the ones I like) makes me giggle all the time.

For me, a truly "mid" piece of music is something that technically has all the required pieces to be called a song, but is so banal and unmoving that it's the auditory equivalent of a boiled potato. I think what annoys me so much is that it almost feels wasteful, like someone put all this time and money into making a song--not an easy thing to do--but then couldn't fully complete it into something that actually makes an artistic statement. To go back to the boiled potato analogy, it's like how a potato needs all this time, sunlight, water, and soil to grow, then it has to be picked, loaded onto a truck, and sent to a store, and at the end of all that it doesn't even get seasoned or added to soup or anything, it just gets boiled. I guess I got a little sidelined by the potato analogy but I've made my point

i think when ppl call songs "ad music," i think they're really frustrated at good music becoming used for advertisements to the point that it ruins a song for them bc it reminds of them of having to watch ads. i think the hatred of it comes from the fact that we all hate ads and don't want music we like to be ruined by it. todd in the shadows' video abt thunder by imagine dragons makes a rly good point of this

Here's a life rule I remind myself of occasionally; "Don't yuck on other peoples yums". You don't have to like what other people like, but there's also no need to ruin their enjoyment of the thing. Whether that's food, music, movies, style, whatever. Just let people enjoy what they enjoy, even if it's "lame" or "basic", or "mid".

My problem with sushi restaurant is that harry not once mentions actual sushi, i want to hear about an amazing omakase, locally fresh caught uni, snapper and hamachi, something dammit!

My opinion on this is that "mid" or "L" or "trash" are not actually opinions. An opinion has to be a statement. Mid can be used, if it also includes the formation of an opinion. Mid is an empty reaction that is used as if stating that the offending object isn't worth formulating an opinion.

I had a friend who any time I asked her what she thought of an album, artist or film, she would just say “meh” as a way of telling me she didn't like it. That soon got annoying because she was using that word as a replacement for an actual formulated opinion and any kind of discussion. I see this a lot with people on the internet who use “mid” as a way to shut down any thoughtful discussion about not just music, but art in general. And that's kind of a shame.

I don't think the word "mid" itself is a problem, it's just a slang term for "mediocre." The problem is that online discourse has basically just been reduced to snappy one-liners thanks to shortform social media platforms like twitter and tiktok.

Finally someone says it! I hate this word so much. It has ruined any discussion about music. I hate it so much I hate it I hate it. If I hear it one more time…..

Mid the Snare has a nice ring to it now. Better get used to it

“mid” is the cop-out word of someone who wants to have a visible opinion about music but isn’t actually prepared to critically engage with it. people call music mid because they don’t like the music and either can’t or don’t want to explain themselves. the fundamental problem is that social media makes people want to constantly be getting in on The Discourse, but sometimes they really do just have nothing to say.

I'd say that mid being on the discourse is actually helpful since mediocrity is a far better descriptor for most music than calling it terrible. The only problem I have with mid is that people use it as a substitute for bad instead of being mediocre and people who tend to use it are the ones that won't elaborate why the thing they called mid is mediocre in the first place which kills discussions. To be fair, mediocrity never warrants that much of a discussion anyway since it all boils down to "it's competently made but it doesn't illicit a strong enough reaction to be either called good or bad".

I think the really sad thing about “mid” is whether the word falls out of use or not, its driving impetus of people simply making no attempt to engage with music (or any art) they don’t immediately have some visceral connection to is going to persist. “Mid” is a textual shrug, an admittance that “I don’t get why this is a thing, and I’m not going to attempt to because it’s a waste of my time.” People that commonly call things “mid” were likely to just stick to their preferences anyway. Perhaps the real benefit of it falling out of use is that no one can be of that mindset and then masquerade as having meaningful contributions to discourse. Come to think of it, I should clarify that’s not to decry people for having favorite bands or sounds, frankly it’s mentally taxing engaging with unfamiliar art and trying to parse the human element of it and I can’t blame anyone for just not wanting to go to that time and effort because they have more taxing things going on in their lives. In that case, though, a frame of reference for unfamiliar varieties of art would be lacking, and broader perspectives would have to be taken with a grain of salt. What I’m getting at is, “mid” bypasses a person’s need to present a compelling argument that’s also reasonable and nuanced because of the ubiquity of the feeling - we all know how it feels to hear something potentially competent and it do absolutely nothing for us, so it’s easy to automatically read someone calling something “mid” as a person that probably has something of substance to say, when in reality it’s probably just someone completely mentally disengaged from a thing that they didn’t immediately click with writing the thing off wholesale.

I never would've thought that complaining about music was just complaining about a projection of our own insecurities onto others but holy shit that's a revolutionary idea. Thanks to sussy chungus 6000 for inspiring this video

What i've noticed is that the people that go around calling stuff mid when nobody asked for their opinion will tell you that every single song or album they listen to is an 8/10 or above, they really can't entertain the idea that it's ok to like a song because u liked one thing about it even if the rest is "just ok", that it's fine to really enjoy an album and think is nothing that crazy, maybe it's just fun, maybe acknowledge that there's something very personal that makes you like it "more than you should" Basically: If they like it = it has to be "objectively REALLY good"... and that mentality sucks.

I set up my own little music club to combat that whole rift of understanding between a music enthusiast and casual music listener. Difference in approach, environment and mindset when it comes to consuming it. Unwritten rule is that no one can just call an album "boring" or ofc "mid", and instead find justification in your reasoning for calling it that. Great video, Mr. Mic :)

I think the difference between personally disliking something and thinking something is actively *bad* is that saying something is "bad" is basically a way of saying "I can't imagine how someone would enjoy this." In that way, thinking something is bad in some objective way is almost a problem of empathy or imagination.

Thank you for this. I've had this theory in my head for years. You can tell so much about someone from how passionate they are about invalidating someone else's enjoyment of a project, someone in the comments or even music reviewers. Like, is it actually that bad that Lorde or Twenty One Pilots recent outputs saw a pivot from a depressing tone of music to one where they are happy, or do you just not like seeing people grow out of it and develop as people, something you don't wanna do?

I'm so glad someone finally made this video. "Mid" is the worst trend of a word that came to the internet music community.

thank you mic the snare, great video! Really gave me a new outlook on this word, I did not run over a family of 4 in 1984 that is just a rumour.

The overuse of the word mid is a product of saturation of art in the digital age. Too much supply of art and shortened attention span made us to categorize value in the most simplistic way.

In my opinion, mid music is music that does not have a defining sound or an actual dedicated fan base…it’s a soulless cash grab that is all over the radio or advertisements but in no one’s playlist or music collection, you’re very right in saying it reminds us of our mundane lives because the only places we here this type of music are in ads, at work or in shops…we only know of it because we are forced to listen to it

I can’t believe my favorite dated late 2000s electro-clash and dance punk album is considered mid by a YoungBoy pfp on Twitter

7:46 You did not give Beyon-mid any credit, but it was far and away THE BEST ONE.

IDK summed it up best in one of his tweets "Imagine putting your heart and soul in a song just for people outside of arts and crafts to call it 'mid', sometimes they only say it because someone else said it not because it's their actual opinion."

so refreshing to hv a music essay ytuber as funny and insightful like you

The word “mid” does get at the worst thing music can be: Elevator music, hold music, the background music in corporate trainings, and the music on reality tv. These can all be rightly described as mid. They’re not designed to make people feel or think anything, just fill empty space

I just don't really get the point of this video, it's either preaching to the choir or its really just being optimistic about how the general populace functions. It's a reductive word, because people are trying to be reductive. No one is going to make a long tik tok or a long twitter post breaking down their criticisms of an album, that's not what most people use social media for (or how most people converse in general). It is, and I can't emphasize this enough, literally in the same vein of statements as "this album is good" or more appropriately, "this album is bad" which is just what people said before "mid" was a thing. It's a 10 minute video critiquing the word mid but really it's a 10 minute video complaining about the lack of proper discourse in social media. And well hey, welcome to social media. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I mean 40 years ago it was some dude that says "this song sucks" at the bar. 10 years ago it was just the same thing of people shitposting going "album bad" on /mu/ or your uncle going "new music sucks" on facebook. People saying "mid" aren't trying to generate discourse because they don't care for it, and social media is inherently reductive by design. You're really just arguing against lot of fundamental ways in which people and social forums function, which is to say you're pushing a rock up a hill.

I really love the term mid. I feel like people are finally criticizing artists for being run of the mill and playing safe. For me art should not be safe and convenient, and way to many artists have gotten a pass because their music sounds "nice". Nice is just not enough and I love that the worst thing you can be now is "mid" and not plain "bad". I would much rather listen to bad music than ok music. I would much rather credit an artist for taking a chance and failing, than one playing safe.

Someone called this man's channel mid and he made a whole video ranting about the word lol

When i think to the Word ‘’Mid’’ I always think about the midi files

Me, reading the title: oh boy, Mic is jumping on the "mid" bandwagon because not every Harry Styles song on the last album was a banger, oooh boy, I'm really gonna watch this? Me, starting the video: Phew, that's why I watch him. He's saying the word mid is running music, which is so true considering the climate of music discorse we are- AHHGGH WAIT YOUR THE RU-vidR HERE, GO ON~

I only just now looked through your channel which seems to revolve around the *discussion* of music which is why I see you made this. At that point, the only problem I have with the video is the title as it’s just a blanket statement and isn’t true as a whole but only affects a portion of it which is the discussion. That said, you have to keep in mind that people have always had useless criticisms like saying “bad”, “boring”, or any on worded opinions.

That was a bad leap indeed. The problem with mid music is that it is so unimpressive that all it impresses on is the cynical, rational mind - usually, in a way that exposes the song as what it usually is, an attempt to manipulate ur emotions by a big record label. It's this *failed* attempt at manipulation that triggers people - because when it doesn't, they like the song. It penetrates their defenses and imprints, makes them feel something - when it doesn't, all they see is the failed attempt. If objectively music is sound organized in time, subjectively it's noise that triggers feelings. When it doesn't, it's just noise. And nobody likes noise. PS. I never saw the term _mid_ anywhere but here, so I'm taking its definition objectively. If people are using it to just say that they don't like X or Y songs then they are just using the term (that they probably invented) wrong

Music For A Sushi Restaurant is my favorite song from the album. Great energy, groovy bassline, and the jazz elements are just killer

I think we just live in an era where this is just SO MUCH content including music and the need for music that’s just ok is dwindling. Why would I listen to an album that’s ok and forgettable and mid when I can listen to the best music ever made. We just have so much content now that wasting our time on something okay has become just as bad as wasting our time on something bad.

I feel like 'mid' is primarily used by those who actually liked something previously done by the artist and then don't feel that spark with the newer thing. something is 'mid' if there was something before that set high expectations. 'mid' is the feeling that your favourite might not be as good as before.

The first time I heard this term applied to music it was in the sentence "The Beatles were mid", and I think that says everything that needs to be said by itself.

Always great to watch an analysis on a discourse word I didn't even know existed.

This video is complaining more about general online music discourse rather than the use of the word “mid”. I think using the word is just fine, but if people ask you to elaborate you should be able to sensibly explain why you think so; just like plainly calling something “good” or “bad” isn’t a very thorough expression of your opinion.

At some point, I started trying writing out my actual thoughts about albums to try and use more than simple short phrases to describe them and I still end up falling into the trap of hearing a really really bad album and just saying "no." I almost would describe it as something you just don't want to put the energy into describing because you want to think about something else, or had almost no impact on you, which I guess you did say at the start so yea. Wish there was a less confrontational way of saying that... wait.

Personal opinion. Music, as an art form, usually expresses some form of emotion, or is used for storytelling or what not. In the process music usually elicits a response from the audience. Whether or not the response is reflects the artist’s intention or not is another issue. In my terms, mid music is just music that I don’t feel anything from. It’s so generic or played out that I almost don’t feel anything from it. The beat or instrumental isn’t engaging, the vocals are droning or lifeless, the artist isn’t trying to say anything of substance or interesting, the artist isn’t breaking the mold for trying some new technique or way of mixing, it’s not catchy/memorable, and the music is out of my system in a couple minutes. The issue is it’s usually not too difficult to find or buy good beats or instrumental these days, so mid music means the artist purposefully chose the most generic instrumental and wrote the most generic lyrics, then delivered it in the most boring way possible. It’s a whole different breed of bad music.

I have nothing to contribute but I still wanted to leave a comment for ~the algorithm~ I really enjoy your way of talking, it's soft and very well enunciated. And your editing style! And your script! Basicall I'm that person that doesn't care nearly as much as you do about music but watches every single video of yours anyway. I love hearing people speak about their passion, especially if their medium of choice is as refined as yours.

One thing I can at least fully agree on with these crowds is how most mainstream music truly is just something made real quick for it to just get popular quick, then die out soon after

Thank you dismissing me at 2:30, bruh it ain't that srs fr fr 😭

mic youre the best music-video-youtuber-producer for the time were living and i truly hope you keep like this for as much as you keep doing these videos, i love your work and plese keep posting videos for us, ur the best

I'm so glad I gave this a chance because I've been missing your comedy.

Maybe I just haven't seen the right twitter threads but I really don't get this. Given the inherent hyperbole of the internet discourse around things, which for so long declared everything a "masterpiece" or "trash" I for one view the introduction of "mid" as progress. It's a fact that there's a lot of music (some might argue most of music) that is in fact middling and it's a good thing that there's a cool word to express that. As to the rest of this... eh, seems like an odd attitude for an ostensible music critic to have. There are presumably plenty of albums this dude "complains" about and I doubt he thinks he's really complaining about "people." The fact that he's doing it in something that's officially designated a "review" does not suddenly mean that he's more enlightened than the people just "complaining" about bad music on social media.

There is also mid's like middling weed. Thats where I heard the term from first years ago. IE "ima go smoke some mids"

my biggest issue is that, like you said, it's basically a catch-all term for "bad" but nobody ever really explains what they mean. they use it dismissively and can't articulate any finer points which really doesn't make a strong argument

Great video across the board, the last 2 min were very powerful... Well said. Awesome!

sometimes, the real mid are the friends you made along the way

tbh I have called music 'mid' in my mind before, when I heard a song or an album that was produced or written with low effort (in my opinion; obviously) I feel like there is a lack of effort in writing, composing and producing 'memorable' and 'outstanding' songs. A lot of the artist that were prominent in the charts the last few years, were on top of these 'most successful' lists just because of their name and not because of their work. Take Adele for example. She has released outstanding songs, that have had an impact on society. Not only was everybody singing 'Rolling in the deep' and 'Someone like you' but simply could recognize 'Hello' by the first piano chords instantly. But what about hear latest release? I literally had to look up the title of the song because I simply forgot. Does that mean she is any less of an artist? Heck no. But her latest release is imo just that: 'mid' Where are the memorable choruses, the interesing sound patterns? There absolutely were songs I didn't like but was able to recognize why they were popular. Nowadays I hear popular songs and instantly forget them, no matter if I 'like' them or not. I absolutely love sitting down with my headphones on and completely immerse myself in an album. But I can think of just a hanful of releases that really stuck with me lately and I was actually excited for. Is it really just me, who got a little bit older and has changed in the pandemic and expects other standards and has trouble remembering barely any song on the charts? Have barely any desire to listen through their albums with non-descript filler songs? Or is it also the artists and producers, who have settled for an unmemorable release with low effort because it is so dang easy to be on top as long as a famous name is attached to it? Release albums with an overhyped single, that has a forced chorus that can be used as TikTok sound bytes? idk

I suspect the fear is less the suspicion that the music WE love is "mid" (it can't be! we love it!) and more the realization that there are experiences - like the strong emotional responses we have to both the music we love the most and the music we hate the most - that we simply cannot share with other people - or at least, not with EVERYBODY. It exposes a gulf between us at precisely the level of our most intense feelings. Likewise, the intimacy of enjoying music together can make us feel linked to others on a level that seems spiritual.

Dawg. That’s the realest statement you made at the end. My ex-fiancé she did not care about music but I loved talking to her about music because of what you said, it gave me a new perspective. She would say things that was unimaginable in my mind. Sometimes I disagree but still new perspective. Sometimes I would agree and yeah it’s phenomenal. TY for your content. Hope all is well [+]

It’s just a word. For me, it’s a very simple way of describing something that leaves no impression rather than explaining why a song is bland or generic. It’s a word that lacks nuance and that’s really it. It’s not ruining music, the industry itself does that on its own.

You’re the only music critics whose opinion I’m not quick to dismiss, thank you for existing

glad that there's a video on this topic

Really love that random awkward Michelle Branch clip @8:35. Weirdly fit the dialogue well

mid is a word i used to describe albums like TVU&Nico (fight me) but i never really use it anymore because people think im calling said albums bad, instead of simply C tier.

Bro, when you don’t like a music it’s cause the chorus is boring, chords progression is cliché, lyrics are uninspiring… not because it makes you face your inner demons and you don’t like this or shit like that. Sorry but that quote is BS, if a track by an artist I hate is awesome, I’ll admit it’s good. If a track by an artist I love sucks, I won’t try to psyche myself into liking it, it will still suck just as much, nothing to do with the personalities of those people.

I like the idea of this video. I think you could zoom out and make another video analyzing how music has changed with the rise of music criticism, and where we’re at now that everybody is a critic

I did not expect such a deep analysis of the word. Granted I actively avoid most social media, but I always thought it just meant a song was: boring, passable, inoffensive, and/or forgettable

....*tonight*

The whole "L + mid + ratio" thing is the worst part of Generation Z. Twitter is a cesspit of toxicity and mindnumbing infantilism.

Love the chibi-robo ost you have playing in the background

THIS! THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO!!! NEVER LIKED THAT WORD NEVER UNDERSTOOD IT AND COMPLETELY DONE WITH IT! THANK YOU!!!!!

I'm not entirely sure I 100% agree with your psychological analysis... I am not a user of the "mid + L + ratio" stuff btw... but I think there is something to be said about the growing (well maybe not growing, perhaps prominent?) amount of internet users who love to live in their misery. I can totally write a lot about this, but I feel like people (especially people who have a bit more external privilege) tend to wallow a bit too much in their ironic detachment. Becoming so ironically sad and negative to the point where they become genuinely nihilistic and doomer; hating everything the world has to offer. I say this cause I was once them. I had such a perfect little life but had nothing to show for it. So, I became enamored with this idea of being a tragic figure. I became so intensely negative that even my parents had to step in to tell me that I was being an asshole. The hater still lives in me, but I had to actively fight against this viewpoint in order to find a crumb of happiness. I think one of the things missing from this analysis is that people on the internet (especially Tik Tok) are, for whatever reason, looking to incite discourse. Whether they mean to or not. I think there comes a validation in that. I have seen the most heinous opinions on the inter.net and often times there'll be at least 5 or 6 people who agree (and I mean, HEINOUS... like genuinely harmful). There's even validation in hatred! My point in mentioning all of this is that I think people are searching for meaning in this fucked up lil life we all live. And they want to gain some sort of reaction from it. They don't care for cultural context or personal opinion. It has to objectively flawless or objectively terrible. In reality, they never care about the piece of art they are critiquing, all they want is someone to react to it. Because if someone can validate their little life in this big ol' world, then everything will be worth it. This issue goes so much deeper, but I think I want to leave it a that before I continue to essay into the discourse void. This is still a great primer into internet music discourse! Thank you, "Mid" the Snare. Unsubscribed.

as a fellow person whom cares about music much more than those around me, i think the reason you say some of the best conversations about music you've had are with those who don't care about it as much as you is that... those are all that's available to you. i know that i care about music more than EVERYONE i know and regularly talk to. there is one person who i can have a real, deep, philosophical and technical conversation about music with, one in which neither of us runs out of things to say or responses to what the other one has to say, and we can really only have that about David Bowie. other than that, pretty much no one is on my level about music, or even close to it. but i should stress that THAT'S OKAY. depth of thinking about music or a love for music analysis is not something that everyone needs to have, and it has no qualitative bearing on a person's worth or importance. but for both of us, the best conversations we've had about music were with someone not on our level because that's the best we can have. so... you wanna talk about music? 😂

when mic combined those quotes :0 lost my mind. So concise

The best bonding with people I had was always through sharing the music we like. When you find someone who likes the same stuff you do it hypes up both self-esteem so much it's almost like a therapy))) It's all very selfish if you try to break it down but it's still works. Also, I've never called anything mid in my whole life, you can call quality good-mid-bad only if you're an actual expert on hat (and I'm not). Other than that, it's just very subjective. Like I love everything Harry Styles does and I don't really care for the rest of artists menioned in this vid but I'd never call them mid just because my perfect self doesn't feel it lol. In any case, it's been great food for hought, thank you for this a lot, keep up the grea work you do!

I wanna make a point that kinda supports your argument: I think a lot of people, especially people who are passionate about music, have a clear idea of their taste in music. Often, we mix up cultural relevance and the general greatness of something with what we personally acutally enjoy. Say I'm sure of being a full on punk person, I might be mad at the comercialist way Britney Spears appeals to people, but I might also be kind of mad at myself for just loving that damn lick on toxic so much! I think building up appreciation for music that is considered great can lead to a conflict between liking something and not want to like something and therefore calling it mid. Like this video from mid the snare.

The one mid I endorse is midcity by clipping., relisten to it

I’m too sober for this video

great video! one thing about chase atlantic: i tagged along with my girlfriend and her friends to see them live and the audience was BLOODTHIRSTY for the guys. i don’t know how to explain it, but watching a primal instinct kick in as these people fought over the bands water bottles was a reality check, and a horrifying one at that

Mid is okay. What I hate with hell's burning fury is "L". It's like we're getting so lazy that we can't say a 3 letter word for what we dislike, we gotta dial it further down.

A lot of music now is mid. Mainstream Albums drop every other week with bloated 21+ track albums with nothing to say or contribute. Mid

this video continues to age like fine wine. and i appreciate your humility /gen

i never used mid, but i have been using mild for ages like, i like deep, intense, weird, noisy sounding music, and i said many times: "billie is a great original artist, but i don't like her music because her instumental is mild for me."

Damn this was really well put. I've always had a discomfort with people actively trashing art they don't like. Especially during in person conversation (or even worse, after someone has put on a song they like 😬), it just shuts everything down and mildly annoys or upsets someone. I think it's so much more truthful to say "yeah I just don't really get it". And so much more *interesting* too! The acknowledgement that other perspectives exist and that "maybe one day I WILL get it though" feels hopeful and true to life. I think it applies to other "acquired tastes" too! I didn't used to like beer but I'm very glad I do now I agree that mid has poisoned the discourse a bit, I wish to see it disappear too. Great video! Love your work ❤❤

Eyyyy I actually called that this is what "Mid the Snare" on Twitter was teasing towards woooo Fr tho thanks for addressing this topic as it's so annoying how when discussing literally anything on the Internet, be it Music, Videos, Movies, Series, Games, even books, etc. etc. so many people seem to fall into this mindset of "if something isn't a masterpiece, it's either trash or mid" which is such a restrictive narrow way of looking at art. One of those trends that's just pushing media illiteracy and low attention spans with the mindset of "if it doesn't blow you away immediately, it can't be good. Only mid. "

I used the term mid for average quality bud back in the day (early 2000s) as opposed to chronic bud keep in mind this was way before smart phones and when pot was still illegal in all states.

I completely agree with talking about music with people who have different tastes or dont care about it the same way you do. It has really made me examine why I like what I like, and also in some cases start liking artists that I never thought I would in a million years (most recently, taylor swift). Once you find what is appealing about certain music to others, you may eventually start finding that appealing too! Thanks Mr. Snare, as always❤️

You're looking particularly slick today Michael the Mid

I feel like I mostly disagree. I can definitely see where you're coming from with some examples (I agree with the TTLB idea), but I feel like the idea that critiquing music to critique other groups isn't totally fair. Like, I'm sure some people subconsciousally are critiquing Drake fans and major labels, but I feel like the fact that Drake *fans* are calling it mid pokes holes in this. That is, unless that's an example of people critiquing themselves. There, I feel like the frustration lies more with the artist for disappointing them, rather than with another group of listeners. E: Just wanted to say that I still thought the video was really well written and made, you're great!

Mid was short for medicore but it's connotation became more negative overtime where it means both bad and boring. Emphasis on boring

i think the authenticity discussion of music rating also applies here. it’s “ad music” because it’s not “real” enough or it’s mid because there’s not enough valid emotion to make it good. another great video Michael thee Snareington

I haven't watched the video, but I fully support your rebrand to Mid the Snare. It's a questionable choice but we support you, Michael

We're acting like calling things whack or lame or generic or bland is a new thing? mid is just the currently popular term, this isn't new lol

the chibi-robo music at 0:56 took me by surprise! its such an underrated game with a groovy soundtrack that i never expected to hear in a mic the snare video but im so glad you snuck it in there! as always, great mid- i mean vid ;)

I had literally never heard the term mid used in this context before this video. I'm so bloody old.