I am an absolute audiophile. I tend to be more eccentric than usual when I can't listen to something. We all have our little obsessions, I suppose. It's not really bad if you can't live without something, right? Be it music, clothes, people or books -- there is always something we can't live without. Also, there is a tendency that there is someone we can't live without, but I don't want to talk about that (now)!
I tend to only listen to the type of songs expected of me. Stiff Little Fingers, Dinosaur Jr., The Transplants, The Horrors, Lars Frederiksen, Operation Ivy, Blink 182 -- from loosely “punk” songs to pop punk, I have them.
Bands like Quo Vadis, Trapt and Slayer are also common place in my music library. I can't just listen to, say, The Jonas Brothers, because it would pretty much be weird. Imagine browsing through my songs and seeing S.O.S.' You know you'd react with surprise. I also don't have any rap songs because, I generally avoid that genre. It's stereotypical, really.
My dad though, is very cool. He listens to Mary J. Blige and Santana. He even likes Mayday Parade!
To break the common barriers erected secretly by society is something not many dare to do. Stereotypes are overrated.
The way my hair is cut, and just because I listen to Hawthorne Heights doesn't make me emo. Just because you act in a certain way, doesn't automatically make you part of a certain group.
It's stupid to label people. It's like saying that everyone who wears black is emo.
Back to what I was saying, it's fun riding on the wave of cultural evolution.
Trends pass and go, some die, and some live. Generations put down one another. Peers put down one another. It's all just a mad struggle for domination and a sense of superiority. People term music as something that surpasses time.
Nowadays fame is passed around from one band to another in the shortest span of time.
This brings us back to the topic of labeling. I agree that there is some use to it, like improved order in some cases, but in my opinion it's pretty useless.
It's stupid to put labels on people, especially when they admit to openly detesting said labels.
Maybe this means that we should flood the dams that society has built and attack their rules? Storm the gates and knock them down? Wouldn't it be nice to not have to explain why you like so, and so? It does sound fun, running free from the bonds of stereotypes. Then again, I really, really, don't like rap...
