> Huh? Try telling my cousin that. She's a big fan of rockin roll and she
> looks heavily down on film music. In fact she calls it background music
> because thats all it amounts to her. Actually speaking of rock bands, I
> heard Metallica perform the Imperial March at some award show. And it
> actually sounded as if the Imperial March was an acutal rock song. In fact
> I hear many peices of classical music video game music and film music get
> translated by rock bands. You have to remember in the end...music is
> music. Let me also add that fans who listen to rock or rap do not consider
> their music to be pop! If I was to say somthing like that I would be
> slapped dead! So if you look at it, people who listen to pop music
> consider our music to be background music. And we who listen to film
> scores consider all of their music to be pop trash! But in the end,
> whatever your preference is, music is music.

Dont tell me.

> Back to my cousin. If I was to let her listen to a Zimmer score (including
> the priate scores) she would most likely consider it to be nothing more
> than boring background music and pop in one of her rock cds. This is
> because a person like Jessica or the average Joe who listens to pop music
> would find Zimmer's music to be too complicated

For someone who just listen to pop music, Zimmer´s music can indeed sound a bit complicated. Example: for someone who just listen to this progressions: I -IV - V- I, a progression like this: I - II - IV - VII - VI, will obivously sound more complicated. But they are both extremely simple progressions.

> and uninteresting

I have no doubt.

> So in a way Zimmer is stuck in music limbo. The point is,
> there is a major difference between Zimmer's music and pop music.

The differences are not too many. Zimmer uses more instruments and probably more variety of chords, which is not difficult.

> But what makes music, music is not becuase of the acutal sound. It's
> becuase of the fans behind the music. Still...I can respect your opinion
> on Hans Zimmmer!

Thank you.