Music

So, like a lot of people out there in the world I really struggle with the question ‘what kind of music do you listen to?’ because honestly the answer is I’ll listen to most things. I find, increasingly, that people don’t like a lot of music. In fact their tastes are rather limited. This isn’t a good thing as far as I’m concerned. Sure everybody has particular songs that they don’t like listening to, myself included, but I think discounting a whole genre of music is frankly foolish. Only when somebody has listened to every single song in that genre, and wholly disliked every single one of those songs can they definitely say that they do not like listening to that music style. Until then, I really think that we should keep our minds a little more open.

So far I’ve not found myself disliking any genre as a whole. I like everything. For example, I really like the old classic rock. I was taken to see Thin Lizzy for my 18^th birthday, and that was awesome. It’s the music I grew up with.

I’ve been playing piano a lot of years, which has given me a love and respect for classical music.

I also enjoyed going out into town recently and dancing away to the new club hits, most of which I didn’t know the names of. When the opportunity arises, I thoroughly enjoy going to see folk singers like Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span.

Since I’ve been belly dancing I have listened to a lot more of the Arabic style music and again, I’ve really liked it.

 Music is something that is totally subjective, we all like and dislike different things, but I still don’t think it’s worth hating a whole style of music because there’s one or two songs you don’t like.

As much as I do like most music, there are some things that I really can’t stand listening to. Not whole genres, just songs. Umbrella is a song that I simply cannot stand, not because it was on the radio so often when it first came out, but because I find it a musically lacking, lyrically strained tedious load of crap. Sorry if you like it, you go on liking it, just don’t make me listen to it. 

 I’m equally not a fan of the later Michal Jackson works. Somewhere along the line I think he just something and his music reflects that. This one especially. I don't know why exactly, I just can't stand it.

I don’t like Sean Kingston’s beautiful girls mostly because it pretty much stole the bass line from Ben E King’s Stand By Me, which was an amazing song.

I like rock, but I don’t like any of this screamy crap. “Singing” like that will destroy your vocal chords eventually, and until it does that we’re all stuck being subjected to the torment of that travesty trying to call itself music. I’m not even going to apologise to anyone who likes that stuff. Nor will I have it on my blog.

So there’s a little insight into my musical head. It’s a very little one, going through everything I listen to would take hours, and it would get boring really fast.