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Back in school days, my brother had among his buddies a kid who disliked music across the board. In all the years since I can't recollect encountering another, though it might hardly be as easily learned or disclosed as it was back then.
I love music, but I do have a cousin, who is the lead screamer in a famous headbanger band, and I can’t stand it. I will never understand how people can enjoy listening to that crap. They must be on drugs or something. Maybe that’s what real music sounds like to people with amusia. Like Oliver Sacks said, it sounds like someone is just banging pots and pans.
With me, my music appreciation seems to be a function of marijuana use. I absolutely loved music when I was smoking a lot of dope. I listened to rock, jazz, blues and classical composers like Poulenc. I even investigated weird foreign traditions like gamelans and African drumming.
When I stopped smoking dope, I just lost interest in music and stopped listening to it.
Then rap hit and I became totally alienated from popular music.
Right now, I can't for the life of me name a single contemporary musician who is big with the high-school generation.
(Which is probably just how they like it.)
I'm not even sure how kids get music these days. We had record stores, records and expensive hi-fi sets with top-end speakers. Then there were CDs. Now kids download all their songs to their cell-phones and listen to them through tiny ear buds, I guess. (How do they listen to music in groups?)
(Aug 18, 2015 01:11 AM)Secular Sanity Wrote: The prevalence of congenital amusia has been estimated to be close to 5%, but many may not even know they have it.
Some music affects me in a negative way, where I just turn off the radio.
RE: Do you hate music? - scheherazade - Aug 22, 2016
I actually took the test in the link provided and found it rather interesting. While I enjoy music of many genres, I dislike music and/or lyrics that convey anger and discord.
For my enjoyment, music needs be melodious and I prefer straight ahead rhythms, be they fast or slow. Melancholy music and minor chords I find particular empathy with even though I consider myself to be quite upbeat and happy. Perhaps I enjoy the reflective nature of introspective music.
Living close to nature, I find commercially contrived 'nature tapes' not to my taste yet I can consider that for many living in an urban environment, such may be of benefit. I also enjoy an absence of music for I find that the natural world is full of sounds that reveal much of what is happening around us at all times and I prefer to be attenuated to my surroundings.
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