06-22-2016, 05:10 PM
(06-22-2016, 02:56 PM)taramarie Wrote:(06-22-2016, 12:55 PM)gabrielle Wrote: Glancing over TaraMarie's picks for this era, I think perhaps her tastes are even more different from mine than Eric's--quite a bit more, actually! It seems to me she skipped over almost all of the good stuff in favor of late 90s/2000s pop. At least we are somewhat in agreement on early/mid 80s New Wave. But it's interesting to observe both the personal and generational differences in all of our music appreciation histories.
Now, where was I...? 1984? (been a little busy lately)
Unlike Eric who deliberately skips over stuff he deems icky keep in mind he was an adult during that time and would have been aware of it. I was not as i was a child in the 90s and an infant in the 80s. I have to pick up what songs i like from the 80s much later and some of that 80s music i was influenced by my mother who listened to it. She would play it when i was a child and i grew to love it. She is generally into the upbeat stuff and so when the mid 90s came along and i had my own upbeat music to enjoy i fell for it instantly as i could make that connection. Those songs have great memories for me so i apologize if i skipped over what you enjoy. This was just my list for what i was exposed to and took a liking to. I was heavily influenced by a late boomer and for the pop explosion milies are stereotypically connected with. Yes, like Eric i like the happier music overall. But he calls my music crap and empty/bland on par with 1T music. The mood changed with it approaching 4T and my taste evolved with it. Of course i do still love upbeat but i enjoy other music too which i showed in my later music. The later music seems more "real" to me as it tends to reveal what is wrong with the world and as i am waking up to what is wrong and why life is not so great as it was when i was a child i naturally changed my tune. Evanescence, skillet and disturbed are wonderful xer groups for that. Do not care that Eric loathes the angry tone. It helps the mood. So anyway yeah I favour mid/late 90s to 2000s as that is what i have a memory connection to. That is when i started to make choices on new music at the time on what i enjoyed. Not just what my mother enjoyed. What was enjoyed at the time for many millies here was what i revealed in my choices. Other millies influenced me and i them. We all went crazy for the upbeat pop music Eric calls crap.
I don't expect everyone to like the same stuff I like. Not trying to throw shade or anything. A lot of the stuff I like is pretty mainstream, I think, but I do like a few things that might be weird to others. Music appreciation is a very personal thing. And I haven't actually listened to everything you've posted, it might take me a while to get through it all.