I was listening to w-inds.'s 3rd album when I got sick of the songs and switched on the radio. Usual jazz station was playing some lame baby-making 80s R&B (I THOUGHT IT WAS JAZZ, NOT SOME 80S R&B STATION), RadioDisney has been ugh since 2003, so I switched onto the heavy metal station and was happy.
I haven't listened to rock music in a long time. In middle school, I went through this short phase of listening to rock for a while. I grew up not listening to a lot of popular artists. I didn't hear of Britney Spears until 3rd grade, and I didn't know who the Spice Girls were before the 3rd grade until one of my neighbors tried to spread the fan love to me. I didn't listen to N*SYNC or Backstreet Boys (except for
Everybody, who hasn't heard that one) until I finally listened to RadioDisney. It was all about the tween music. It was all about the BNAs (Christina Aguileira before she decide to take the adult demographic route), the not-so-BNAs-but-still-lasted-some-good-y
ears-on-the-charts (3LW before they caught the drama llama), even some one-hit wonders (who?! I don't even remember them) — man, 2001 was a good year.
When I hit middle school, I befriended a bunch of goth kids, and the dudes who sat on my bus listened to heavy metal. It sounded cool, and like a territory that my parents had never introduced me to. I tuned into the heavy metal radio station and began listening — sometimes I couldn't tell what the vocalists were singing but I drowned in the dissonant guitar chords and the heart-throbbing bass lines.
Rock is a huge genre. There's rock 'n roll, heavy metal, etc. I decided that I'm more of someone who'd listen to progressive or moderate — maybe 70s-90s. Occasional heavy metal is good if I can tell the vocalist is actually singing something instead of screaming, or if the bass line and guitar chords are really catchy. I disliked slow songs because I craved adrenaline. Even though the super-fast paced songs were too much for me, it was all about making your heart race! It was all about releasing that dissonance in you! It was all about wanting to bop your head up and down, flinging your hair over the back of your head in beat with the tune! It was all about that blood-boiling feeling.
It was kind of fake for me to claim that I was ever into rock/heavy metal. I liked some of the songs, but hardly any of them were striking enough to engrave into my memory (with the exception of Audioslave, AC/DC, some Rob Zombie songs) — most of them followed the same route, to me. I didn't even know band names. You sing a song, there's a 1% chance I'll hum it back, and I won't even know who sang that song. To be more "diligent" (that shouldn't even be the word to describe it), I've been trying to remember songs that I like. I liked this song by Megadeth (I only remember the band name because one of the
Animorphs books made a reference to Megadeth) but I didn't know the title, and the radio station's website's playlist has issues loading.
Now that I'm done being a wannabe emo kid, anyone have some music recommendations? People call me weird because I don't listen to music that everyone listens to (not that it bothers me, I want to try something else). I mostly listen to East Asian pop (w-inds., f(x), Girls' Generation), electronica (capsule, Télépopmusik), house (Kaskade, St. Germain), and modern jazz (Chris Standring). I have a great dislike for the drawling vocals and the whiny violins of country music — and even though Taylor Swift has a mix of pop in it, I don't like her music very much. I also dislike a lot of rap songs with weird sound effects in the background. I generally won't touch that genre either unless they're pretty good and have interesting lyrics (DJ DECKSTREAM, for example).