do you have any thoughts to add about objectivity versus subjectivity in music? or anything creative for that matter?
objectivity and subjectivity are tools to determine which person is right and which person is wrong. the person who knows the words 'objectivity' and 'subjectivity' is always right, and here's how they do it: first they say 'subjectively', which means people are allowed to disagree. Then, they provide an alternate situation, 'objectively', which means there is only one right answer and you are not allowed to disagree with that. It's sort of like a good cop / bad cop scenario, where the 'subjectivity' scenario gives you a false sense of comfort, thinking it's ok for people to have different opinions, then the hammer comes down when 'objectively' there is only one true opinion, which spells checkmate for the other person of course