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Kafke  ·  3914 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Music Anhedonia: Why some people don't like music

    I do. I am incredibly passionate about music. I have cried to it, laughed to it, got angry or placated while listening to it or playing it, any range of emotion you can experience I have probably experienced through music.

See, this is baffling to me. Like, I can't understand the concept at all. Do you find the lyrics funny/sad/happy/etc? I can get that, but then it'd be the same reaction from just reading them, rather than the song/music itself.

Would you say it determines the type of music you like? I would enjoy all of the same music that I listen to, even if you replaced the lyrics with gibberish. Or nothing for that matter. I enjoy the same music and it's karaoke/instrumental version.

    the first time I listened to All Hail West Texas it broke me down to the core.

I gave it a listen (though just briefly. one song all the way through and a couple others skipping around). Got nothing from it. A bit slow. A bit boring. Just some stories on top of plain music. I'd rather read the stories and get it over with faster than having to listen to a generic noise painfully waiting to hear the rest of the story.

    TV music does very little for me though, the same goes for movie music. I'm too busy paying attention to what's actually happening.

I find those are some of my favorite. Simply because I can listen to them later and recall the scenes from the movie or tv show. That and the music itself is pretty good and fitting for whatever scene it was made for. During the movie itself though I'm wrapped up in everything, and pay about as much attention to the music as I do the background.