Comments | naamah_darling: I Thought Better Of Myself.

naamah_darling

I Thought Better Of Myself.

Sep 23, 2005 02:32

Ah, fuck.

I'm on the Hot Topic website (a strike against me right there, I'm sure), and decided to listen to the new HIM album on the optional streaming feed.

I . . . I like it ( Read more... )

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forgodestiny September 23 2005, 09:23:24 UTC

This is like me admitting to owning all the N*SYNC albums - yes even the Christmas one that SUCKED. And I got them because, at some point, I was hit on the head and in that moment of insanity decided that "they're not so bad" and spent $50 on 'em.

WHOOPS. *chortles*

nodrogg September 23 2005, 10:29:58 UTC

That's interesting, that you use theme music when you write. I find any extraneous noise to be a distraction - I wear earplugs or flightline hearing protection when I type, because of the sharp rattling keyboard noise. If I wanted theme music, I would think it in my head - but I don't.

How do you people deal with liking music you find vaguely embarrassing? Am I ever going to be able to tell Sargon I actually like this band?
Interesting question. The closest I've ever come to that situation are the times when I've recognized that Barry Manilow ought to have been a band-leader in the 1940s, and certainly he agrees; his rendition of "Bandstand Boogie" is definitive, and of course there's "Copacabana."
I've always thought that if only someone else had performed his music, he'd be better regarded today. But people looked at the spandex pants and the hair - and just laughed. [It would be interesting, for example, to hear what the Greetings From Asbury Park-era Bruce Springsteen could have done with "Mandy." I suspect that would ( ... )

naamah_darling September 23 2005, 17:39:54 UTC

I use theme music to tap in and get in the mood. I usually turn it off when I'm actually writing, unless I'm using it to cover up background noise from the street.

Speaking of the 1940s nodrogg September 26 2005, 12:51:23 UTC

Eureka.

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sageautumn September 23 2005, 10:53:04 UTC

If anyone asks, I deal with it with a shrug and a "Yeah, and?"

If the issue is pressed--"You really listen/like/whatever THAT?" Then they get "I listen to a lot of things."

But then most of the stuff I listen to that would fall into this catagory is popular. So I can always fall back on, "A million people may not always be smart, but it's hard to say they're always wrong."

naamah_darling September 23 2005, 17:40:41 UTC

I usually just say something like "Hey, it doesn't have to be GOOD. I just have to LIKE it."

dubbage42 September 23 2005, 11:19:23 UTC

IMHO, there are 2 ways you can go with this.

1. *retract your post* and post a new one about how this band does nothing for you personally but you bought it because it fits the mood of the fiction you are writing.

or

2. If someone questions your tastes - just shrug, grin, and say "It doesn't matter what I listen to, I'm so hot that you'll pay attention to me anyway."
Then wink and walk away.

This, of course, coming from someone who has a little of everything in her cd collection - most notably just about every 80s schlock song you wanted to forget existed. And I LIKE them. :)

Deb

naamah_darling September 23 2005, 17:41:28 UTC

*hand shoots into air*

Oh! Oh! "The Glory of Love"!!!

liminalia September 23 2005, 13:15:21 UTC

What's really funny is that the cross-dressing Satan character on the Powerpuff Girls was called "Him" before either one of these albums existed.

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elialshadowpine September 23 2005, 15:53:52 UTC

The band is actually H.I.M. -- His Infernal Majesty. It just gets referred to as "Him" by most people. :P

naamah_darling September 23 2005, 17:42:05 UTC

Oh, CRAP. That had NOT occurred to me, and I used to watch that show fairly regularly. *lmao*