…don’t use that rare chance to communicate with me just to tell me that I “have odd taste in music.”
Unique taste, maybe.
Dark taste, maybe.
Good taste, MAYBE.
But not odd. I mean, maybe it’s not inherently clear that since I am broadcasting over Adium what track I am playing at the moment, it’s an expression of my individuality. My personality. In short, it’s the only thing I’ve got. So, newsflash: the expression of your opinion that my music taste is odd may not do anyone in the room a whole lot of good.
Maybe unless you get some sort of sick gratification out of it, somehow.
A question: Am I supposed to go jump off a cliff, now, if I can’t get my taste to be … what’s the opposite of odd, now? … common?
Or to match yours?
What bands do you like? (Wait, let me get a pen.)
And what is it exactly, that you know about the music I listen to in order to draw that sort of “odd” conclusion?
I also thought that was a nice touch, too, how you signed off immediately afterwards. Like, Here! A little zap of insight! And then you’re gone. I never knew what hit me with that drive-by – a gratuitous, ingratiating comment dripping with condescension. Oh, no.
What did she say about my music, again?
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sometimes being “odd” is a compliment. in your case e*, i mos def think it’s an compliment. i wouldn’t want you any other way, except your own flavor of “odd”.
I’ve never tuned into Adium. But from your blog design and content of your posts, I’d guess that ‘Odd’ is probably a bad choice of word for ‘developed’ or ‘complex’ or ‘esoteric’ or ‘eclectic’. :-/
Music snob?
@big league: Sweet of you to say.
Perhaps I’m a little trigger-happy when I get called nondescript things such as “weird” and “odd.” To me, it seems like just a way to write someone off.
@moet-chen: Could be … could be. Also nice of you to say.
@ktownfug: Moi?
Well that depends on what you were playing at the time.
If, like me, your party shuffle can go from Nonpoint to Weird Al, swing by some Justice, NIN, Loquat, Kanye West, Wumpscut and take a side trip over to Richard Cheese, odd could be apt.
Though I agree, just pinging someone to say that is rude.
Don’t be offended. Odd is a compliment. It’s the new “black”. Did that just make sense?
@peroty: I believe it was Primal Scream. You do have quite a selection there! I have to admit my tastes are narrower – not in a good or bad way that is. (And you’re right – it was definitely the touch-n-go style that irked me.)
@codemunky: …no…
I’m very much in league with Big. Being called “weird” is a compliment…without “weird” people the world would be even more of a mess than it is today! Maybe a uniform mess, but a worse place most assuredly. Or maybe i’m just biased, cuz if I had a penny for everytime i was called “weird” by my midwestern classmates…it would almost equal everytime they were called “lame” by me (in my head).
Nah you are who you are… what you enjoy listening to, well that’s your preference and your taste.
Just as long as you don’t give other people crap for not adjusting their hearing buds to yours…. it’s all good
I’m reminded of my high school days where there used to be a bunch of guys who were into pop bands and these group of fellows used to get severely dissed by another group of guys who were into alternative-grunge-nu-metal and it used to be just plain mean… I mean okay fine if you don’t like pop music, that’s alright, but you don’t need to go all out and label pop-music lovers as faggots now do you?
Oh in case you’re wondering, I’m into all sorts, I guess I’m the kind of guy that likes the song more than the genre… although I gotta say I have a favorable preference to Matchbox Twenty, Cranberries, Vertical Horizon and Goo Goo Dolls
but really, anything goes for me… as long as it’s nice to me hearing buds
@uncannyman: Haha true. It ends up being a battle of the genres, and those arguments seem so fruitless I think. That, I think, is a completely different argument from the good music vs. bad music argument.
And now I know what kind of music you like!