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I don't get it

Why this intense negative response to music someone else likes? What difference doe it make to you?

By the way, I listen mostly to classical, Opera, and some jazz and I try up on what's interesting on the pop music scene. Most of the pop I buy (on cd) immediately resell because it's just not my thing. Occassionally I find a band/performer that's a real keeper. I like smart pop--The Decemberists are great. Love Radiohead. I never bought a Los Lobos album until about a month ago, when I bought last year's The Town and the City. Great stuff--highly recommended. BTW, I'm 43.

I bought my first hip hop CD about 6 months ago--The Roots (don't remember the name; it's the one with the hangman on the cover). Not bad. Bought one by Clipse--crtically acclaimed--clever lyrics but I can only listen to so much talk, however clever, about gold jewelry fancy cars and cocaine. Not my cuppa tea. Then I found an act called "Coup'--smart, rebellious, funny, daring, politically astute and engaged--if there's a smarter pop act around right now I haven't heard it. (Don't buy this if your politics is conservative--whatever that might mean--or if you're offended by lyrics like "Bush and Hussein together in bed/Giving H-E-A-D head"--yes, that's infantile, but self-consciously so, and there's plenty on the disc that isn't).


But the point isn't that you have to like it; it is that there's no reason to hate something just because it's not your cup of tea, especially when, as I suspect, you haven't really tried it. Just relax and, as Hamlet said, "Let be."

Cheers,
Jim

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