The Value of Music?
I recently have been thinking about music. For those of you lucky to see me in person, you have probably noiced I am am always with my Ipod. I am an OLD SCHOOL Ipodder. I bought my Ipod BEFORE I pods were considered cool. I was a trendsetter and others followed my lead. Thats right, I bought an ipod in 2001, when pretty much nobody owned one. 4 years later, Ipods are getting smaller and are something people are buying. Why becuase of me I am sure.
Okay enough Ego Building, lets get back to topic. I was thinking if the type of music we listen to can reveal something about ourselves. For example Arecertain people are drawn to certain kinds of music becuase there is something about it that they can identify with?
As for me, I have a very eclectic taste in music. I listen to Metal, Hard Rock, Rap, Country, Classical, and Jazz. What does this say about me? Does it say that I am a confused person searchign for myself within a plethora of choice? Does it say that I am an indecisive person simple unable to make up my mind as to what type of music I mostly identify with?
I also wonder if certain types of music can say something about a person's personality. A lot of country music tends to be of a depressing nature. Are people who are drawn to that genre a little depressed themselves? A lot of rap music tends to be of an aggressive nature. Does that mean that people drawn to that type of music tend to have an aggressive internal nature? I sometimes wonder about this as I listen to my super incredidble mixes as I walk to class or to work.
What do yall think? Do you think the type of music YOU listen to influcnes your personality? Do you think the music I listen to influences MY personality?
Discuss!
Just to get you started:
"If you're having Big Tex problems
I feel bad for you son,
I got 99 Problems
Being Big Tex aint one"
1 Comments:
Interesting question, especially because as a foreigener here, I am often asked, "What kind of music do you like?" as a kind of icebreaker. I am always frustrated that I can't answer that question to any satisfactory degree. As you my recall from the parties, my taste varies, and I have even been known to partake in a little GNR.
I wonder, though, what validity there is to your thought about, "being lost in a plethora of choice." It seems as if that is kind of the theme of our generation. Political parties, religious orders, nationality, all the traditional fixtures of group identity, are kind of giving way to a more fluid dynamic. We pick and chose as we see fit, and perhaps that makes us insecure in our composite identities.
Of course the question, "who are you," is by no means unique to our generation, but the staggering amount of leeway which we are given to answer that is rather unprecedented in the history of humankind.
But I prefer to look at my musical tastes not as representative of a lost wandering, rather an ability to pick and chose - to reach into a genre but not become a slave to it. Perhaps that is a great gift.
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