Writer's Block: Name that tune
Nov. 30th, 2009 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This is difficult, because ANY song will become irritating to me if I listen to it more than three times in a row. (I don't do the "Repeat" function, even for full albums. That is a surefire way to get me to hate a song. My favorite-- indeed, only-- ipod function is "Shuffle," or selecting an individual song I want to hear and then letting it shuffle from there). However, as long as I'm not hearing it perpetually and without other things in between, there are many songs I've loved for years.
Actually, I think it would be safer to say that any song I once loved I continue to love. This explains why I still have Linkin Park and Backstreet Boys on my ipod. I don't grow out of music like some people seem to-- or, worse, cast off because it no longer suits their "image." (Pet peeve: When people like a band only until it becomes popular. Shouldn't you be happy that an artist you discovered is finding success? Why does universal appeal translate to inferiority? If their work does start to go downhill after that I can understand ceasing to purchase their new albums, but you can still enjoy their classic stuff instead of casting it off like a Squib from the Malfoy family tree). I have many, many favorite songs, songs that sustained me during different periods of my life or remind me of certain events, and I love to listen to them and reminisce. I have songs that I pull up repeatedly to inspire me to write. And some songs are just good songs, and there's no reason to ever dislike them. Why on earth would I ever hate Dvorak's New World Symphony or Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, except from being overplayed?
But even the not-so "quality" songs have staying power. I can recognize that BSB, *NSync, and the Brittany Spears I listened to in elementary school are disgustingly pop-y, but despite the fact I no longer seek out songs of their style being released today, I enjoy them for the nostalgia they bring and the fact I can sing all the words-- and musical cues, lol-- without thinking about them. And while the angst of Evanescence and Linkin Park doesn't resonate with me quite as it did during high school, I will always love my old favorite songs by them. Though, I will admit I do have trouble latching on quite as excitedly to their more recent work; for instance, I only liked one or two songs off Linkin Park's most recent album, and don't know all the words to the songs on Evanescence's "The Open Door."
Periodically I overplay a song or allow it to become the theme for a difficult period in my life, and then I go for a while without wanting to hear it, but inevitably I "forgive" it and let it work its way back on to my playlist.
This is only one of the many reasons why I seem to have a ridiculously broad range of music on my ipod. Like my childhood bedroom, I am a musical packrat and refuse to throw anything out! (Indeed, I need a bigger ipod!).
This is difficult, because ANY song will become irritating to me if I listen to it more than three times in a row. (I don't do the "Repeat" function, even for full albums. That is a surefire way to get me to hate a song. My favorite-- indeed, only-- ipod function is "Shuffle," or selecting an individual song I want to hear and then letting it shuffle from there). However, as long as I'm not hearing it perpetually and without other things in between, there are many songs I've loved for years.
Actually, I think it would be safer to say that any song I once loved I continue to love. This explains why I still have Linkin Park and Backstreet Boys on my ipod. I don't grow out of music like some people seem to-- or, worse, cast off because it no longer suits their "image." (Pet peeve: When people like a band only until it becomes popular. Shouldn't you be happy that an artist you discovered is finding success? Why does universal appeal translate to inferiority? If their work does start to go downhill after that I can understand ceasing to purchase their new albums, but you can still enjoy their classic stuff instead of casting it off like a Squib from the Malfoy family tree). I have many, many favorite songs, songs that sustained me during different periods of my life or remind me of certain events, and I love to listen to them and reminisce. I have songs that I pull up repeatedly to inspire me to write. And some songs are just good songs, and there's no reason to ever dislike them. Why on earth would I ever hate Dvorak's New World Symphony or Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, except from being overplayed?
But even the not-so "quality" songs have staying power. I can recognize that BSB, *NSync, and the Brittany Spears I listened to in elementary school are disgustingly pop-y, but despite the fact I no longer seek out songs of their style being released today, I enjoy them for the nostalgia they bring and the fact I can sing all the words-- and musical cues, lol-- without thinking about them. And while the angst of Evanescence and Linkin Park doesn't resonate with me quite as it did during high school, I will always love my old favorite songs by them. Though, I will admit I do have trouble latching on quite as excitedly to their more recent work; for instance, I only liked one or two songs off Linkin Park's most recent album, and don't know all the words to the songs on Evanescence's "The Open Door."
Periodically I overplay a song or allow it to become the theme for a difficult period in my life, and then I go for a while without wanting to hear it, but inevitably I "forgive" it and let it work its way back on to my playlist.
This is only one of the many reasons why I seem to have a ridiculously broad range of music on my ipod. Like my childhood bedroom, I am a musical packrat and refuse to throw anything out! (Indeed, I need a bigger ipod!).
