background music

[lula_vampiro]

The other day I was talking with matt_rah about background music: the fact that our lives have a constant soundtrack which store radios, thumping cars, subway performers, etc. provide. He was talking specifically about the custom of playing music in stores, which he thinks habituates people to tuning out music instead of actively appreciating it. I was

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[matt_rah]

Uh, that's not my LJ name.

Though it probably should be.

Matt

[lula_vampiro]

errk fixed

[crystalpyramid]

I listen to background music, e.g. when it's ambient in stores. I worry that I'm weird for doing so, or that I only do it because I forget to listen to music on my own time

[dapperzombie]

I tune out background music because I can't multitask at all - I need to focus exclusively on what I'm doing. This is especially so for writing projects, in which case I just put music on as filler, so to speak. I hate being in a completely silent room, even if I can't focus on the music.

There are occasions, though. Sometimes I'm inspired so much by a song that I listen to it on loop over and over again, using it to fuel whatever it is I'm doing.