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If you haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t already, please read the introduction post<\/a>. That will give you context for this page.<\/p>\n

\n

Of all the things on my list, this is probably one of the top 5 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m most hesitant to post. You see, I am a musician. The best thing, in my opinion, that I have put out into the world is songs. And musicians are judged more harshly than most anyone else when it comes to their musical tastes.<\/p>\n

Now, I completely own up to the fact that my opinions of people are influenced by their musical tastes. I love people who, in my opinion, have seriously questionable musical tastes. But I also see that almost all of my closest friends share many of my favourite bands and musicians. And the thought of being in close relationships with people who hate the music I find most important makes me cringe. (Been there, done that, never going back.) So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not suggesting that people shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t factor in the musical tastes of others when forming opinions. I honestly believe that a person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musical favourites say a lot about them.<\/p>\n

That said…<\/p>\n

I was raised in a home that was full of music. We all grew up wanting our own stereos and then played music non-stop on whatever we had access to. We all loved music, though most my family didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t all love the same music. Plus, my dad and eldest brother were (are) pretty eclectic themselves. And then most, if not all, my friends loved music. There was more overlap there than there was in the music family members loved, but it still wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t complete overlap. Which means I had access and exposure to a wide range of music. Lucky me!<\/p>\n

With the internet, I also had access to music nobody I knew was listening to. Access to All The Music!!! Lucky, lucky me!<\/p>\n

\"Wee<\/a>
Pretty sure the stereo was the nicest, most magical thing we owned.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like most creative teenagers, my friends were vocally and strongly opinionated about music. So there were whole swaths of music that I either avoided completely or that I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t admit that I enjoyed. It was risky even to say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like their music, but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re clearly talented.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Nope. Just keep your mouth shut.<\/p>\n

Which is to say that I was not always not ashamed of my musical tastes.<\/p>\n

But, sometime around age 21, I started to care a whole lot less about other people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opinions of my tastes and looks and actions. I also started hanging out with more musicians and realising that, as much as people judge us strongly for our tastes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good thing for us to be atypically eclectic. The broader my tastes, the broader the influences on my own music. Even if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hear it, there are bits of songs that occurred to me to approach in particular ways because of some song or genre you might not expect me to enjoy.<\/p>\n

People talk a lot about guilty pleasures. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to claim that all pleasures are okay; there are a lot of questionable people with even more questionable pleasures. But I absolutely refuse to have musical guilty pleasures. Why bring shame in to taint my enjoyment of a song? Not going to happen.<\/p>\n

As a bonus, I learned years ago that the quickest way to get certain kinds of boys who were hitting on me to leave me alone was to be forthright about the music I loved that they considered crap. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes, I see you posturing there. Do you<\/em> see me<\/em> skanking during the song you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re mad the DJ is playing or bobbing my head to Public Enemy as I chat with my friend? Oh, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re leaving? Such a shame…\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/a>
It wasn’t like I was an inviting person to start with…<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not claiming I love all music. Though, so far, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s usually a song or two of the types I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard that I enjoy. And not just obscure things. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure I lose my punk card, my goth card, my alternative card, and an assortment of other cool kid membership cards when I gleefully sing along to Taylor Swift or have kitchen dance parties with Jay-Z and Rihanna. When I put on some Genesis or Dire Straits or Fleetwood Mac on purpose. When I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t protest if my guitarist says I have to check out the new JT (that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Justin Timberlake, cool kids) album. And I know plenty of rock kids who don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get it when I spend a night listening to nothing but Chopin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s piano pieces or won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let them switch albums until I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m done with the whole Salt-N-Pepa album I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in the middle of. And so on and so forth.<\/p>\n

Please also note that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not claiming to be an expert on everyone I like to listen to. Not at all. I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had the luxury (of time or of memory) for that since I was about 15. Even then, I always felt a little obnoxious trying to prove I was a super-fan via knowledge of trivia. Because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about.<\/p>\n

I love wallowing in songs I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve enjoyed for ages. I love hearing new things I enjoy. I love to lose myself in a song, an album, a playlist. I love songs that make me cry and songs that make me dance and songs that make me want to grab someone pretty and do scandalous things.<\/p>\n

\"Me<\/a>
Wallowing in my own music, hoping for scandal
<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re listening to music from my collection and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on shuffle and I warn you that you will probably end up disappointed in me, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not an apology. Not at all.<\/p>\n

If we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re listening and something shuffles up that I skip, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not shame. It might be that I know you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be offended and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sparing you or<\/em> it might be something added to my massive collection by a friend or partner that I have yet to clear out.<\/p>\n

If I explain that I know a song I love is kind of lame but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s this particular emotional context. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not ashamed of loving the song. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just acknowledging that some of my tastes have more to do with emotions than with the actual song.<\/p>\n

But my own ridiculously eclectic musical tastes are not something of which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m ashamed. And I sincerely believe they make me a better<\/em> musician. Rawr!<\/p>\n

Cross-posted<\/a> to the Not Ashamed section of my site (so that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all tidy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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