First, for the uninitiated:

I'm a silly drum person, I go bang on my drums but I'm currently learning the above chords for Pachelbel's cannon on guitar. Specifically D, A, Bm, F#m, G, D, G, A in that order, tbh slightly different from what he had to play on a cello as a kid. Why am I; a drum clown, learning one of the worlds most made fun of chord progressions? Am I not afraid that this combination of chords is going to make me gay if I learn it? How will I explain to my husband that I'm learning the gay chords? Is my marriage in jeopardy??

It's a long held music tradition to make fun everything from chord progressions to Nickleback to popular stuff to Insane Clown Posse to entire genres like Country or Riddim. The majority of the time it's a socially learned thing to do and it's wrong. I remember watching a Youtube video warning against this kind of thing from an older musician and how he killed a tour offer for his band. Apparently he reflexively made fun of Nickleback right in front of a scout that was trying to find an opening act for a Nickleback tour. The average person has a lifetime of social hang-ups that could lead to detrimental moments, though that Nickleback thing is an extremely specific example.

A friend I jammed with in middle school once dissed his own song he was working on because it was "just power chords" like that was a bad thing. Me, a drum person, didn't give a shit. I just enjoyed having someone to play with, to share music with. I took piano lessons in college and came to the realization that the interval, a perfect fifth, is fucking everywhere and it's always been that way for hundreds or thousands of years. It's such a huge crutch to look at the core of a creative idea and downplay it for being rudimentary or overdone. Imagine being a graphic artist and hating the colors red, yellow, and blue. "They're just primary colors." As a creative person, it's both tiring and detrimental to have to worry about nothing all the time. Don't do that.

The way people talk about certain chord progressions, I always thought I'd accidentally write a song with Pachelbel's Canon underlying the structure. The odds of that happening, when I only use two chords in the majority of my songs anyways was minimal. The very act of people making fun of specific chord progressions led to a personal writing style that is devoid of chord progressions, fuck. As an adult I don't get to play with others very often. I wish I had some power-chord-loving-Pachelbel-mother-fucker to jam with but I don't because they don't exist because they grew up and became teachers and lawyers instead. People out here are developing phobias towards chord progressions of all things. What happened to being afraid of quicksand and lava? WHAT HAPPENED TO BEING AFRAID OF WOOD?

I'm learning the magic chords and when that's done I'm going to learn even more chords. Will my music get better? Probably not but I just want the ability to show up to an open mic night and play the Canon from every pretentious direction imaginable. I want to apply it to weird time signatures and I want to beat box while doing it. I want to find a rapper that can drop some bars on it, bastardize the chords until we're so gay for Pachelbel that our lives fall apart. I'M DOING THE CHORDS AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME D:<

I probably have more to say but I just wanted to get this off my chest and I already look perfectly weird. Thank you and have a nice day random person that doesn't care about chords because you came here for hentai.