I'm a massive vocaloid fan, right, but not really for the synthetic sound they make. Sometimes I prefer the synthetic voice, but I feel like there's just more... depth? with a real person singing it.
You know what's ironic about the music I like- I'd probably classify 90% of the stuff I like in the "pop" genre- you know, short for "popular". But these days I can think of like... ONE person who likes the same music I like. That one person happens to be my house mate, and I'm really not sure whether she actually likes my kind of music or if she just got converted after putting up with me blasting my stuff 24/7.
I don't "get" people that shit on music or are embarrassed about the music they like. I was talking to this girl I just met about music I liked (we were having a decent conversation), and I was like "hrm... in terms of Western music, I recently found 5SOS and I REALLY like their stuff". Her expression changed immediately and her tone was just one of absolute disgust- she said something like, "what, are you a teenage girl? Do you also like One Direction?"
I don't know if being called a teenage girl is meant to be offensive... I mean, I guess teenage girls are seen as really dumb and melancholy... or something... but like, really, the music I listen to turned me into a teenage girl? Also One Direction sounds nothing like 5SOS. It's just that both groups contain these young men that teenage girls find really, really attractive. AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. It's like how I watched this REALLY shitty movie because I thought the actors were hot (I think it was called Red Riding Hood...?) Anyway then I answered the girl honestly and said that One Direction wasn't really my favourite thing out there, but I do like a few of their songs, and I wouldn't object to my friends playing it if we were in the car or something.
It reminds me of the Michael Jackson scandal a few years ago- when he was accused of molesting children or something? I didn't really care about that sort of stuff back then, so I don't know the details- but what I do know is that just because he can be a really terrible person doesn't mean all the music he produced just became really shit all of a sudden. Yet all of a sudden people were like "ew Michael Jackson? But he's a paedophile!" Like, alright, maybe you don't support him because you think he's a pedo, but that doesn't make the music itself any worse, yeah?
This is also why I get really mad when people criticise Justin Bieber's music- not because I'm a fan of him in particular, but I feel like people are shitting on him because he's popular with young girls and he looks like your stereotypical teenage douchebag. That in itself though shouldn't warrant comments like "I hope he dies of cancer" or w/e the fuck. Like, this is just a kid who had a lot of success through singing, and maybe you don't like his stuff but that's no reason to attack his person. And you can't justify that his music is shit because you think he looks like a lesbian! HOW THE FUCK DO YOU TELL WHAT A LESBIAN LOOKS LIKE, ANYWAY. GODDAMN.
Sorry, social justice side of me is flaring up tonight. I just want people to be more... rational, I guess. Like, I say "I don't like Bieber's lyrics, I think they're kind of bland," and that's a way better excuse to not listen to him than "his haircut makes him look gay".
Anyway these days I'm really struggling to find people with similar interests as me. It's waaaay harder than you think. I go to anime clubs and it'd turn out that we like different kinds of anime. I talk to my friend cos I thought we liked the same stuff and it turns out nope we just like that ONE song, everything else is different. Literally right now all I want is for someone to like EXACTLY the sort of stuff I like, and we can appreciate the same thing together.
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