Are you musically deficient if you do not purposefully listen to music?

logic1976 · 10-28-2020, 07:32 AM

One thing I find enormously astonishing is that when people listen to music, they don't care about it enough to the point where they actually decide to get the name of the song and relisten to it. So many people that I talk listen to music and they put it on background. If they hear a song they like, they don't care enough about it to try to save the song and listen to it again. Further, if they do like it and memorize parts of it and even get the name and artist of the song, they still make no effort to save the song in whatever device they're using so that they can listen to it later. Also remarkable is that nowadays with Spotify and other services people can deliberately choose what music they want to listen to. (This was possible in the old days but somewhat more difficult, especially during work) In spite of this vast array of choices, most people still prefer to listen to the radio or some music service that chooses for them what they will listen to. I find this mind-boggling. Why would you listen to the music chosen by someone else when you can choose for yourself what you want to listen to. Being the loner that I am, I am on a first-name basis with very few people, but one of them does play in a band and all these facts just mentioned are true for them. I don't see how you can like music enough that you decide to play in a band yet you make little effort to collect music and relisten to the same songs over and over again. I am essentially an infinite-loop guy. I am always on the look out for that next song that gets me going so good that I listen to it about 20 times in 5 days. I am also a deliberate listener of music in that I never allow Spotify me to introduce me to a new song. Instead, I come up with an idea of which album I most probably will find music appealing and then I listen to that album. To listen to Spotify's recommendations I think is just a waste of time.

So here's my theory: I suppose that for those people who make no effort to collect music just simply are not sensitive to music. Some people like music but they do not like it so much that they want to embark on a project where they try to discover all sorts of amazing songs, collect them and listen to them over and over again.

Let me know if you think this is true.

10-28-2020, 07:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
logic1976 Groupie Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 8	Are you musically deficient if you do not purposefully listen to music? One thing I find enormously astonishing is that when people listen to music, they don't care about it enough to the point where they actually decide to get the name of the song and relisten to it. So many people that I talk listen to music and they put it on background. If they hear a song they like, they don't care enough about it to try to save the song and listen to it again. Further, if they do like it and memorize parts of it and even get the name and artist of the song, they still make no effort to save the song in whatever device they're using so that they can listen to it later. Also remarkable is that nowadays with Spotify and other services people can deliberately choose what music they want to listen to. (This was possible in the old days but somewhat more difficult, especially during work) In spite of this vast array of choices, most people still prefer to listen to the radio or some music service that chooses for them what they will listen to. I find this mind-boggling. Why would you listen to the music chosen by someone else when you can choose for yourself what you want to listen to. Being the loner that I am, I am on a first-name basis with very few people, but one of them does play in a band and all these facts just mentioned are true for them. I don't see how you can like music enough that you decide to play in a band yet you make little effort to collect music and relisten to the same songs over and over again. I am essentially an infinite-loop guy. I am always on the look out for that next song that gets me going so good that I listen to it about 20 times in 5 days. I am also a deliberate listener of music in that I never allow Spotify me to introduce me to a new song. Instead, I come up with an idea of which album I most probably will find music appealing and then I listen to that album. To listen to Spotify's recommendations I think is just a waste of time. So here's my theory: I suppose that for those people who make no effort to collect music just simply are not sensitive to music. Some people like music but they do not like it so much that they want to embark on a project where they try to discover all sorts of amazing songs, collect them and listen to them over and over again. Let me know if you think this is true.