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Originally Posted by starrynight
I'm not sure that I listen to music to relax, I want to engage with it. Maybe it would be better sometimes to just relax, but I think some people can just like music just as background which I think goes against the purpose of most of the best music. Good music deserves some concentration, but as with anything it takes practice I think. Similarly it can take time to get into a genre, but some patience is needed. Most people are definitely more used to the 3/4 minute song as well, so something longer than that takes some getting used to. And most of us are very busy in this time as well with lots of different things we can engage in.
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Yeah I think my ADHD may play a factor. I'll either be inattentive and have it playing and zone out, not realizing it's on, or hyperfocus on it and block everything else that's happening out. It's like the two extremes! It depends on the genre though. For ones that are really intense and have a lot going on, like Black Metal and Hardstyle and such, there's no way I could have them as background music. But then progressive genres, Ambient, and some of the more simpler and softer Modern Classical tracks will usually lull me into an inattentive state.
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Originally Posted by starrynight
I'm the oppposite as far as my likes. If I really like something I think it's rare that I go off it. Yet I also have a desire to hear new things all the time as well. The problem now is that because I find new things I like all the time I never really get to obsess over them and enjoy them to the fullest like I probably did in the past. But I suppose that some time in the future I will have the time to do that.
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Yeah I'm not sure what's up with me when it comes to that. I know I'm in the minority, so I guess I'll just chalk it up to being abnormal.