One of my coworkers told me once that she gives vague answers like "I listen to everything" because she doesn't want to talk about music with people. She was like "no one knows the obscure Korean pop I'm listening to so I just don't want to go into it".
Which I kind of get. She put some thought into it and it was a tactical answer.
I just say "all kinds of stuff. Depends on my mood." Sometimes I like wacky metal, sometimes I'm over it. Same goes for outlaw country or hip hop or punk or whatever.
Yeah, same for me. I listen to a little bit of everything. Indie songwriter, post rock, Finnish folk, post metal, speed metal, Japanese pop, Japanese folk, the list goes on. So I usually just say "depends on my mood".
This is kinda the situation for me. I don't listen to any one particular kind of music and I don't want to get sucked into a conversation about whatever genre you have decided to pigeon hole yourself into and are clearly gearing up to vomit all over me.
I'd love to hear about her obscure K-pop, or your strange south American alternative, or whatever really, I'm never gonna say no to at least learning about it and hearing it out, if I don't like it I'll just not listen to it again.
This is similar to my strategy when I was little, like 4-6 years old, whenever anyone asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. The truth was I didn't know, but if I said that, the asker would keep pestering me with stuff like "what about a policeman or a fireman or doctor" etc etc etc and I knew I didn't want to be any of those- so I would say "a chicken" and they would assume I was brain damaged and leave me alone.
I was working for that women once, and she was super nice. I was like 30 and she was around 50, but she tried really hard to be cool and hip. She said she's hosting a dinner party bbq kinda deal and if i wanna come. I said i'd love to, but i already have tickets for a concert.
"What concert?"
"Oh it's that band, they are not really famous."
"I know some bands, you know?!"
"Infant Annihilator"
"What's that?"
'They are called INFANT ANNIHILATOR'
"Oh okay... Never heard of them."
When I say "everything" I mean that I don't have a specific list of genres I listen to. I can listen to any kind of music as long as it's to my liking and it does not matter if it's dead metal or k-pop or classical... Every genre has a lot of stuff I like and a lot of stuff I hate.
Hard agree. Like I'm not gonna say no if someone says "can I put on some death metal" because I've found surprise favorites in every genre I've listened to. Doesn't mean I'm going to like that particular song or artist, though.
I mean, even for a country song that was just kinda...I dunno. It feels like with some changes it could be good, but there's this weird part where the wording feels like it skips a beat because he couldn't get the beat to synchronize with the cadence of the words. I'll listen to a lot of country, but there's still gonna just be bad songs.
I think this is music, it even has a proper beat, although some weird backkick 7/33 or something. By the other posters description I imagined something way more extreme haha
Reminds me of listening to my non-buffering CD player on the bus ride to school.
I'd argue that nobody could call this music in the way that normal people understand what music is. It feels like an experiment in sound more than anything.
A common definition I just looked up on "Music" is:
vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony
There is none of those in what you've linked. No rhythm, no melody, and nothing harmonious.
So no, it doesn't fit the definition of Music; therefore, I probably wouldn't listen to it. I did sample other of the artists tracks like Wat Dong Moon Lek, Himalaya, Ahirya, and all of his pieces are like this. They aren't really music.
"The music is okay, I just don't like the screaming". Although that only describes a portion of the metal bands I like, to me that's like someone saying: "I like Monet paintings, but I'm not a fan of the colorful flowers."
I listen to almost anything and I recognise most of these artists.
My listening habits are "pretty much anything but country, rap/hiphop/r&b, and the extreme side of metal". Which means I listen to classical (Chopin is the shit), most pop music, some metal, industrial, retrowave, 80/90's, "oldies" (pre-80's... Shout out to the playmates), etc, etc.
I also listen to some country, mainly stuff that has more substance than "truck" and "beer". I draw the line with metal when I can't understand the singer anymore, which, I'm sorry to my metal friends but a lot of the screaming/growling lyrical contributions fall into this category. I just don't "get" the music so I'm not a fan.
With rap/hiphop/r&b, the same rules apply for lyrical content as country (more or less), except with the concepts of getting/being rich (and/or bragging about the things you have), and guns/crime.... I guess?
Admittedly, those country/rap/hiphop/R&B exceptions still exclude a vast majority of the genres.
I'm game for pretty much anything else.
I still casually pop on some Backstreet boys, or Garth Brooks, or Eminem.... Meanwhile I spend a good amount of time listening to the likes of vnv nation, Skrillex, electric cowboy, Gorillaz, 3TEETH, etc (the list is very long).
What I pick to listen to is highly dependent on my mood.
Or something like Vatstep DSP by Hrvatski because nobody realizes they wanted to hear Stephen Hawking be the lead singer for an experimental electronic music band