.5) Does listening to music tend to be a stand-alone activity for you?
1) Does your mind tend become completely engrossed in the aspects of a track, making it hard to focus on other things?
2.) Is your taste in music conventional (e.g. you choose to listen to mostly popular music) or , as a *supposedly* arrogant person would ask, is your taste in music narrow?
2.333) What genres of music do you *really* listen to regularly?
2.666666) When you're being careless or intentionally deceptive, what genres of music do you tell people you listen to?
3) Are you anxious when people ask you about your music preferences?
3.5) Is there a band, artist, group, or song you are ashamed of liking?
4) Is music just a casual part of your life or is it the center of you life -overall?
4⅓ ) Since when did this become the case?
4⅔) Elaborate. I like such stories!
5) Are you riding a music-induced high right now?
6) What are the Last 2 song you listened to?
6.5) Links!
7) Do you even perform?! lol (Do you perform music?)
7.5) With your Voice, Instruments, or Both?
8) Are you a music-snob-face-butthole or someone who doesn't care very much about music?
8.25) How do you deal with people who take music much less or much more seriously than you do?
8.½) Are you being honest or did you try to soften up the fact that you are not accepting of the harmless differences between your values and the values of others, perhaps showing a little hypocrisy and maintaining a nasty double-standard in the process?
8.75) Have you ever had an intense argument about music or has someone tried to start such an argument?
9) Do you feel that this survey was a good use of everyone's time?
9.5) Why or why not?
Answers & Comments
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Not even going down the list, sorry. *lol* Fractions and things I can't even type.... :p
In general music is a stand-alone thing--when I put tunes on I give them my attention. I'm not the sort of person who can watch TV with a stereo running, for example. My ears don't multitask so well. I don't get AS into the tracks as I once did mainly because it's BEEN years since my last class where I even had any formal musical instruction, appreciation or experience. Really, you "haven't lived" until a horde of nit-pickers on YouTube get in your face being prissy, English and nit-picky about every LAST thing. -_-
Honestly I'd like to THINK I'm still as flexible as I once was musically, but the truth is, I don't even listen to too much radio anymore (too repetitive, too many ads). So it's like my music habits get constrained by what I can scare up online and on YouTube, which keeps me looking for EDM/Dubstep stuff usually and other stuff as it becomes _available_. Whole thing's a vicious circle I admit--the more I hear about the RIAA and how you "don't own songs" even after you bought them and how Fair Use doesn't exist and how lawyers get to sue Dead Grandmas and Girl Scouts and win every time...the more I hear about that the _less_ willing I am to buy music and actually support what's out there, which in turn leads lawyers to being more dictatorial and paranoid I'm sure.
I tend to listen to EDM/dubstep stuff first and other things when it's out there, mainly because I hit YouTube first in terms of music. The other stuff, I'll listen to it if it's there but copyright is a thing too, as noted. In general I TELL people I'll listen to anything but country and western stuff--and while the gist of that is still true I find myself less tolerant of the dumber sides of hip-hop and metal as time goes by. Stuff I once banged my head to no longer gets a nod from me.
Music itself doesn't make me worry, but the business side of it sure does. I've admitted to some guilty pleasures of the pop sort, but this was WAY before autotune was a huge thing--I got out of that with Kylie Minogue basically. Music's a casual thing--some of that is from being raised in a family that was hellbent on shoving country and/or Christianoid music down my throat (it didn't take), and some of it is that if I took music seriously, you know, the whole RIAA/copyright/censorship thing would make me crazy.
I don't perform--I never really learned to play the instruments I _wanted_ to play back when I was in middle school. And my voice is screwy--perfect for impersonations, lousy for singing. I have two good notes in me at opposite ends of the piano, everything else is off-key.
I try to be open-minded and not be a snob, but that's hard these days. Auto-tune just isn't a good thing in general. And there's this stuff out there called "bounce" that, ugh. It's every BAD hip-hop stereotype brought to hellish life and shoved in your face. It's that bad, trust me. In general I'm not anti-genre so much as I am anti-stupid. Usually. Barring having nit-pickers in my face declaring all techno music "english" and stupid sh=t like that.
I'm cool with people not taking music seriously. Hipsters and genre-nazis make me nutty lately. But honestly, we could use standards around here. I don't consider that a double standard so much as it is a nuance. We could all chill out a little: we could also be less tolerant of pointless swearing, autotune and hurr-durr levels of dumb in the lyrics. I don't think that contradicts itself. But then again I'm a human being--we screw up, you know? (*shrugs*)
I try to avoid arguments on the internet now because nobody argues--it's just instant shouting matches and lewd insults, and the only way to "win" those is to literally eviscerate someone on a Lovecraftian level with the first thing you say.
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