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elizabeth  ·  1198 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 6, 2021

I'll give it a try! Maybe it's just because I'm not used to it, but when I've tried a little in the past I find orchestras just pull too much on my attention. It gets loud, quiet, fast, slow and I can't help but stop whatever i'm doing to pay attention. But once I start paying attention I get bored and start skipping around the piece, or jump to the next one.

But then that's my experience with a lot of music. I think driving is one of the few activities during which I can get absorbed into music, but then the sound quality is usually shit. Or live performances, where I can observe the artists and crowd - and that won't be a possibility for a while.

I sorta blame my parents, we barely ever had music playing at home growing up and it's been an uphill battle my whole adult life. I'm secretly hoping there is an obscure genre I haven't discovered yet that will blow my mind. Or that I will find the "right way" to listen to music. I'm at a point where I like many very different things, I have genres and artists I like, but I really struggle to match it to my mood, so I will circle around the rolodex of my favorite playlists getting endlessly frustrated until I stumble upon the right thing by accident.