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2. Is there any kind of music that you can’t stand?
I try to listen to everything and I usually have one or two examples of any given genre that I like. The one type of music that I really struggle to find anything enjoyable in is Death Metal - to me it’s just sludge with no real rhythm section and what sounds like a muppet growling over it. But it might depend on how you define it - there are some (regular, non-death) Metal bands I enjoy.
7. Do you still buy music? Which was the last music you bought?
Not really - I’ve just used Spotify for a little while now. I do pick up records but only secondhand ones. I kept my old CDs, because I’m still skeptical of “owning” things in the cloud, and I think I’ll probably need them again someday, but I stopped buying physical copies of new music for the most part. I’ve moved too many times with big piles of records and CDs to be interested in doing THAT again.
8. Do you most pay attention to the melody or the lyrics?
I’m actually a little bit less interested in the lyrics as I get older, I think because I came to appreciate how difficult it is to write a great melody, and a lot of the lyrics I thought were deep and amazing as a teenager sound a lot less impressive to me now. I also started listening to music in other languages where I have no idea what they’re singing and had to let go of memorizing every lyric. The lyrics are still important, don’t get me wrong, but my standards for what’s a good lyric have changed considerably.
ATM for example I’m playing “Dancing On My Own” which teenage me would definitely have turned her nose up at, but that’s a great song with great lyrics and most rock bands would be incredibly lucky to have a songwriter as good as Robyn.
