I hate the question “What kind of music are you into?”
More specifically, I hate being expected to sum it up into one succinct answer of a couple broad genres or a few key artists. I can’t pin it down to just one area, and if I do, I feel it’s selling my varied taste pretty short. In no way do I think of myself as a music snob though. In fact, for true audiophiles out there, my eclectic mix of tunes I bop my head to would probably cause some cringing.
I’m just as likely to be found rocking out to The National as I to be found chilling with some Efterklang or grooving to LCD Soundsystem. I’ve held on to a fair bit of the Quebecois tunes I picked up from my time in Montreal (anyone else out there a Jean Leloup fan?!). Some of the stuff I like is downright bizarre. I’ll mix this all in with classical (Canon in D Major, any day) and mildly ridiculous synthpop into the same playlist. Oh, and I absolutely melt over anything featuring violins.
On thing I don’t do is write off any particular genre based on preconceived notions of how terrible it might be. I had a friend once who refused to listen to anything that was deemed to be too popular or mainstream, simply because it was popular or mainstream. My rebuttal to that was that, perhaps the tunes were popular because they were, you know, good. Of course, this isn’t the case in all instances (or even most of them, admittedly) – however, it’s a lame reason to write off otherwise decent music. Hell, if it’s a good tune, just enjoy it! I’m just not one of those to say “I like everything except [insert: country, rap, polka, whatever]. Not my style.
One thing I am completely enamoured with is the mashing up of multiple vastly different genres. I was blown away at a Buck 65 gig last week when he performed his usual white-trash hip-hop styled Wicked and Weird over Yann Tiersen’s Comptine D’un Autre Été, L’après-Midi, from the Amelie soundtrack. If you’ve gotten this far without writing off my musical taste, I urge you to give it a listen:
Is there a genre for this??
What this really boils down to is, after more than a year of scrobbling to my Last.fm account, it still can’t predict what I’ll be in to. I can’t be the only one suffering from this.
Of course, new music suggestions are always appreciated 🙂
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