Music Monday: Don't Say You Love Me
After an absurd amount of dithering over which Corrs song to post, I've chosen 'Don't Say You Love Me.'
In a philosophy of art class last year, my lecturer asked us if we would want to go back to the musical tastes we had 10 years ago. He was trying (as I understood it anyway) to make the point that some artistic tastes are better than others - expecting that people would feel that their taste had improved over the years. At the time I wasn't convinced because, although I don't want to go back to the taste I had then, I also wouldn't want to force my current musical tastes on my younger self. It just wouldn't have worked. What I liked then was good for me then and what I like now is good for me now.
Rewind a few years and this was my favourite song.
I still like it. In fact, choosing a song for this has quite probably sparked a Corrs renaissance in my brain... Anyway, I want to hear others' thoughts. Would you be happy to go back to the musical tastes you had, say, 5 years ago? How have they changed since then? What makes them change? Do you think some people just have better taste than others?
I think I've become braver - I used to like music that has nice, safe lyrics that didn't weird me out or make me uncomfortable and melodies that are emotional in a big, obvious way. Looking back, some of it is embarrassingly cheesey. I'm not sure I'm explaining that very well but it doesn't really matter. Now my comfort zone is wider and I like more subtle tunes that take longer to 'get.' I'm even starting to get the hang of jazz! It's less that I've abandoned my old taste than expanded on it though. I still love the sweet/cheesey stuff, I just have a slightly different perspective on it I guess.
Your turn. :-)
It is never too late to be who you might have been. George Eliot
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3 comments:
Lol yes, that really was ind of an absurd amount of dithering! :P I still think you should have posted the one with Hugh Jackman in it though. :D
As for going back to the musical taste I had 5 years ago, um, I'm not sure, because I don't know if I can remember what it even was! o.O Probably not vastly different to what it is no, aside from stuff that hadn't been released yet!
Hmm I think my tastes have changed in a similar way to yours - including the Corrs thing. 5 years ago...I was still obsessed with Atomic Kitten (still listen to them occasionally but definitely not obsessed anymore lol), still was into S Club 7 and Westlife in a pretty big way. I was a couple of months off discovering the awesomeness of Savage Garden (I know, I know...7 years after everyone else), a year off rediscovering the 10,000 Maniacs (after an 8 year hiatus), and 18 months off going to my first concert and falling for Missy Higgins lol. So yeah my music tastes were narrower back then, and a bit more music-lite. I think I've sort of got past my 'idealistic teenage soppy-ballad loving' stage and now I like lyrics with more meaning, and with a story.
I wouldn't go back to 5 years ago, since most of my favourites then are still in my iTunes now, so I'm not missing anything now but I was missing stuff back then.
As for music taste..I wrote a blog about that once, what makes music 'good'. I can't find any one thing that would make one type of music intrinsically better than others, and I guess that extends to taste. My brother will tell you that my taste is crap (although these days he'll concede occasionally that the artist is talented, even if he doesn't like their music) and I'll tell you that his is crap. There's one band that we agree on lol.
I think I just grew up, really. But nothing will ever replace the Spice Girls! :-P
Hmmm. Well my taste hasn't changed that much. It's still mostly country with some country/rap and rock thrown in, Nickelback, Godsmack and Theory of a Dead Man. I think the only thing I would miss would be the Marilyn Manson music. I was too much of a good little girl to listen to that! I think Emerson Drive was already a fav band then but Trent Tomlinson wasn't around yet. Jimmy Wayne was here before Emerson so I would have had him. Tommy Shane Steiner still had a deal, so did Anthony Smith and Jeffrey Steele. There was no Carrie Underwood. Thank God. But there also wasn't Taylor Swift. I really don't know. How's this I'd like to have the great CDs from then but the musicians of today too. Yeah I'm crazy.
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