I’ve decided to begin to talk about music on this blog. Not intensively as others can do it, but sometime by suggesting something to listen.
But first you need to know about how I perceived music. Many will say that I don’t like music. Where it’s true that I can enjoy peace and quietness for months, its not true that I don’t like music. I’m just extremely picky to the sounds I like and enter in my ears.
I’m attracted to harmonic and melodious sounds. I have a repulsion to any songs or tracks that don’t complied to my definition of harmony. I rarely listen to the lyric in a song, even after many plays. I hear the words, but I mostly never connect them together to understand the sentence and even less to make a sense of the all song. At first the song has to be melodious to my ears and then, maybe, after many plays, I will listen/understand what the singer is saying and what the song is about.
For that reason I don’t listen much to tracks with lyrics, I’m more attracted to electronic, house, trance. The only big exception is with French songs, I listen and make sense of the words (I admit not at the first play, but mostly at the third and subsequent ones). But as with all the others songs, the voices have to be in harmony with the music. If by any means the lead voice singer is singing to loud or shout continuously over the music, the song is certainly out of my collection. I’m not compelled by any sense of integrity of an album. I don’t listen to the songs necessary in the order of the album and if a song is out of my standard, there is a good chance that it is already out of my iTunes library. I rate all my songs (I know this is a pain, certainly the first time you do it for all your music collection) and all the songs under 3 stars are out of my system.
I can listen to an album over and over for months while commuting if the sound to my ears is harmonic. For this reason I will certainly never miss space on my 8 gig iPhone. I don’t care about old or modern, new trends, popular songs or new emergent artists. If an artist is good to my ear, the music is in near perfect harmony with his/her voice, there is a good chance that I like it.
So you will rarely caught me listening to rock, hard rock, jazz, rap, Whitney Houston (the singer I hate the most), but will almost go in trance while listening to electronic. I also rarely spend time trying to discover new artists, I rarely spend time reading, browsing about music, period. Suggestions come to me from friends or simply by bumping into them in a party, store, event (with the help of Shazam and my iPhone).
So this is my relation with music. It may sounds strange and weird for some, and maybe (but I doubt) normal for others, but It’s been like that from the first time I’ve begun to listen to music and I don’t see the day it will change.
Stay tune for some suggestions or simply a snapshot of tunes that I like (I don’t use Last.FM). And if you don’t like them, just a little note that I don’t care, I do ;)
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