Like More (new) Music

     Something I've noticed, and quite frankly is very disappointing, is the lack of people who like various types of music. I don't mean everyone should like everything, not every guitar solo or beat and bass line is created equally. What I think is people should be more musically diverse.  Such as a person who enjoys metal can like all the heavy guitar chords and crazy fast drumming that comes along with that genre, but then that same person isn't phased when Stevie Wonder comes on.

     It's amazing to me that you can have so many, what you can call a fan boy in music, and anywhere else they'd be little more than crazy person. Look at it this way, I like video games, I read reviews of new games that are coming out. A newer feature that a website can implement are user comments at the end of an article. If you've ever read the comments after a review of a new game on any major video game website, you might fear for the future of human kind. I've seen people say that because the author said "new game x" is better than "similar old game y" in a particular manor the author has completely discredited not only the review, but everything that person has done very colorfully even though the actual article was well written and they backed up their points with the appropriate facts. Or the commenter will act extremely angry over the overall score, by five tenths of a point, saying it should have gotten a nine point five and not a nine as if life and death depended on an unnoticeable margin. Most of these come before the game is available to purchase in stores, so the people who leave those types of notes, and there are a lot of them, when they haven't played the games at all.

     Now take the people who leave less than intelligent comments, and that's how I see people and music. It's like they're saying, "I only listen to Credence, and any one else just sucks", even though they very well might like a band like The White Stripes or The Clash, or appreciate the lyrics of a Jay-Z, but they won't because they're simply stuck thinking Credence Clearwater Revival is the only thing they need.

     I know that doesn't happen to that extreme. Most people have a less narrow view of what they view as good. Whether it's as simple as "metal" or less so with "late seventies early eighties punk". It's like only looking at a crust of a delicious apple pie and saying you're only going to eat that part. Would you really eat less than two percent of a slice of pie, the less flavorful part at that, because you don't know of or are willing to try the filling? A normal person would at least take a bite to see how it is.

     Maybe I feel this way because I like hearing new music. Whether it's actual new music from a local band I haven't seen becuase they have only played a handful of shows, or music from 1964 that I haven't heard. It's all equally new to me, and I like that discovery aspect of it.

     Also, I've noticed that when I describe music I tend to not use genres and sub genres. For example, I am a huge Alanis Morissette fan, who by herself covers a wide range of genres with her music, but I wouldn't describe it as "pop", or "rock", or "alternative". I'd say she's a combination of a Pat Benetar and early Madonna type female singer similar to a Sheryl Crowe songwriter in that way, but a superior vocalist, and live she moves around like Janis Joplin would.

     Perhaps because I don't use super specific terms to label music like "alternative gothic punk" that might be good for one band at one time, I don't have that "I don't like it" attitude, so if there's another band like that, that I'll like with that genre label I'll look into them as opposed to just hearing the label and turning myself off to them.

     Though I think the simplest solution to the "problem" would be for everyone to learn how to play an instrument. Any instrument would do, then I think people would be more inclined to try or discover areas of music that they wouldn't necessarily feel they would like.