Taste... How does that work!?

Animal Collective is considered today to be one of the most unique and interesting bands on the planet does it mean they're good?

Slipknot is one of the more loved bands of the heavy metal community but does that mean they make good music?

Recently, I was hanging around my friends (Yes I have friends!) and they seem to have an almost obsessive love for heavy metal. Now as you can tell I am a man who enjoys indie kid music and classic rock... Which was kind of the genesis of indie kid music. But yet as my friends headbanged listening to bands like Bullet For My Valentine and Slipknot and I couldn't help but think that the music they were into, was total shit. Of course, that thought lead me to another idea and that was, well, what is GOOD music? What is bad music? Is there even good or bad music? The question kind of pestered at my mind the entire day. Then like a thunder bolt I remembered a quote that friend of mine once said. He told me that there was no such thing as bad music, just music that you don't like. A light clicked and I quickly found that this friend (abnormally wise in this case) was correct. Music is simply the most personal art form ever to exist. Every song a picture, what may look beautiful to one person may look awful to another. For example almost everybody in the hipster community will likely consider almost any of Animal Collectives albums works of art, while people in the metal head community will think that AC is only a pretentious mess of sound, and vice versa. Your taste in just about anything is something that never really stops developing. The question of, what makes music good or bad is not a universal question but a personal question. Your taste in movies music clothes men women ECT is not only your choice, but its apart of you. Its like an unseen birthmark that continues to grow or the way you look. its like a religion something that you believe in, you may find others who partake in it but it is still primarily your own observation and interpretation. People can talk about it, they can hate it, they can love it but above all that matters is that you like the music you listen to. So in the end, yes there is no such thing as good or bad music so long as you are interested in it. So stop being so damn pretentious and just accept one and other! (That means you silly hipsters)