How does one defiine good/bad taste in art, if at all?

[Danny Boy]

Bad taste in art is liking superficial "art" works that have little to no dept in story, characters development, esthetics's (these can depend on the person or on the idea it is trying to convey whit the chosen art style), thought put into it, message, and or originality (though great works do not need to be entirely original).

Lets use musics as an example: Steve Reich's music focus greatly on simplicity, in a way running away from the ever more "chaotic" music styles such as metalica and dubstep. And conveying simple messages or "memories" as the theme of his works.






In "Different Trains" Reich uses train sounds (those used by Nazis to transport Jews to their concentration camps) and radio emissions from the time of the second great world war. Reminding us a dark past end at the same time using them as an element of the music itself to tell its message instead of having a singer to be the one telling the "story".





On the other side... This. This... Thing. has a pathetic message, It is simply her using her status of a singer to make fun of an old friend of her that she no longer likes, doing incredibly bad rhymes in the process. Its message is bad. and the reasons of this being made are bad.