Pete's Log: country
Entry #954, (Music)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
The song "Goodbye Earl" by the Dixie Chicks just plain old rocks. I love it. There is one very big reason I like CMT more than MTV or VH1. They actually play music! You see, there are many ocassions where I find myself needing background noise, and "music television" usually fits that bill well. But MTV and VH1 just regularly fail to meet that specification, and we don't get MTV2. So CMT it is. Another advantage to CMT. The chance of them playing something I dislike is low. When MTV and VH1 are playing music, they're much more likely to play something I really like than CMT. But they're also much more likely to play something I don't like. Country is a much more narrow musical genre than the "pop" category which MTV and VH1 pull their selections from. And most country songs fall into just above neutral territory for me, so good background noise.
So in alabama I picked up that Trent Summar CD. I knew only song on it, but liked that song a lot. So I bought the cd after spending a lot of time in the music store debating. But in the end I felt I needed to prove something to myself. For various reasons I'd been feeling I'd been fooling myself (and others) about what my musical tastes were. I wanted to know that I could listen to a country cd and enjoy it for what it was, and not for any other reason. Trent Summar proved to be a good choice for this. First time through, I definitely liked half the songs, and felt fairly neutral about the rest, but upon subsequent listenings, the cd definitely grew on me. So after that experience I've now found myself with several more country cds on my shopping list. I definitely gotta get me some old-skool Johnny Cash, I mean come on. It's a crime that I only own one Cash cd, and a newer one at that.
So in other musical avenues, I've found myself reluctantly accepting the fact that I like the new Shaggy song that I'm hearing a lot recently. It kind of irritated me when I first heard it. Alexandra had a tape with two recent Shaggy songs that got played several times on the drive from Mississippi to Alabama. But I keep hearing it, and it now gets stuck in my head. I pretend to be broadminded as far as music goes, but I still find myself reluctant to accept that popular culture can have overlapping tastes with my own. What can I say? I'm a hypocrite. I wish I had money. There's so much music I want to buy. Yet another reason to go into industry... cuz it's all about the music.