castleofargh
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in that respect I know no shame. nor do I care. music listening is a personal stuff for me and only my opinion matters. you won't see me talking much about specific artists or songs because TBH I do not care what other people think about that. I'm very much a subjectivist in that respect.I'm a bit similar listener. My taste in music was a bit narrow in the beginning (modern electric dance music which really blossomed at the time, from latter part of the 80's to early years of the 90's), but it started to expand. Discovering classical music two decades ago was a real "game changer." I noticed that I can find music I enjoy in almost any genre if I just explore enough. The genre or instrumentation doesn't matter much. I realized that I had been a "music racist" and slowly educated myself away from that mindset.
I think people fool themselves by "protecting" their music taste from expanding by convincing themselves they are listening to the "correct" music and other music is incorrect. That is actually quite silly. I'm not afraid to admit I enjoy "silly" music. I enjoy Katy Perry and Kesha. I might listen to some better David Guetta after Alban Berg's Violin Concerto. The change is refreshing to say the least! So different concepts of what music is! A simpleton can appreciate only simple things. A smart person can appreciate both sophisticated and simple things and laught at himself/herself while doing so. I said to myself I must be losing it when I bought my first Katy Perry album and perhaps my head has gone soft, but I haven't regretted buying any pop album I have in my CD collection and after listening to some pop an average classical symphony sounds insanely sophisticated music in comparison. I don't want to be a simpleton calling fans of classical music elitists nor do I want to be a snob who calls people idiots for listening to radio friendly pop. I want to encourage people to explore music, make their own discoveries and enjoy music as much as possible be it the most sophisticated/difficult art music or the simplest popular music ever.
I was raised on classical, that's been my foundation to music by a really vast margin up to maybe 15 or 16 old. my opening to the world after that has been brutal and completely uneducated(radio stations, friends, a pretty cover on the CD...). I have Dark Horse in the playlist I'm using right now . I wouldn't say that Katty Perry is a favorite artist of mine, she wouldn't even register in a top 100 list if I had any idea how to make one. but I enjoy a few of her songs. no problem for me here.