Monday, April 20, 2009

Music

You know how every time you ask somebody what kind of music they like or listen to, they always, invariably, answer, "Everything," or "all kinds."
"Everything," how curious because I have never actually met anybody who listens to everything. We all have our very distinctive likes and dislikes. We all have that one certain sound or quirk of ear that just doesn't go with us. Some hate country, others can't stand rap, or jazz, or emo, or what ever it might be, but nobody loves just everything.
A better way to answer this question is one that I heard over the past weekend. When I asked this cute girl I met at the club the previous question she gave a very resolute answer. She said "I like anything and everything that's good." Now take that. Put it in your mouth. Chew on it a little.
"Everything that's good." Wow. And she's right, that is the most inclusive response to the answer. She will listen to any kind of music that doesn't suck. And she's right, because every genre has a great number of great sounds and songs, it has to otherwise nobody would listen to them. Usually there are a number of good songs that get a movement started and then all the other bands and rip offs begin to copy and mess up that sound. Don't you think?

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