I can kinda agree that some brony music is quite lackluster, and you are right that some bronies will accept anything mlp-related, I just wish they could look more critically into these kinda things and realize it's not that good. Also, you shouldn't worry about offending anyone, if the artist's music is objectively mediocre, they should be named.

I can kinda agree that some brony music is quite lackluster, and you are right that some bronies will accept anything mlp-related, I just wish they could look more critically into these kinda things and realize it's not that good.

That is true.

The problem is that people believe that fanmusic cannot reach the same quality as a professional product when that's simply not the reality anymore. Anyone with a laptop and a decent pair of cans can make good, professional-sounding music.

I somewhat agree with you. I agree a lot of people will focus on what the actual content of the song is, rather than the quality of the song. People do this with all music, really. They enjoy songs about partying or whatever and aren't worried about the actual quality of the music. Now obviously its a bit different with fandom based music as it's more of an emotional connection, but that's what a lot of people are listening to the music for. They wanna hear songs about ponies. I do understand there being a problem with giving people criticism, not to mention them listening. My approach is usually to give as much helpful advice for changing things while complimenting things they've done well rather than just tell them things are bad or even tell them a specific thing is bad. I like to tell people how they can change it. They seem much more inclined to take up your advice when you're being helpful rather than just critical. This all might be obvious, but it's just my two cents I guess. Also, don't ask how I ended up finding this (you did use my name after all, heh).

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Not necessarily. Skills such as mixing and mastering can take years to properly learn. Music done entirely by someone on their laptop will not have the quality of a track that was mixed/mastered by a professional with studio equipment, trained ears, and monitors.

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/me-in-my-studio-porter-robinson-523449

Porter Robinson had produced and mixed every single song on his EP "Spitfire" via simple $100 logitech speakers and a laptop. No hardware other than that, really. Naturally, his songs got sent to the label's engineers to master them, but mastering is not necessarily the most important part of the songwriting process.

An example of his work can be found here :

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From this video here, you can see Rusko's studio in 2008 and a bit later.

An example of his work can be found here :

(Keep in mind this is classic Dubstep, long before the rise of "Brostep" within the trends.)