Why it’s important to have eclectic taste in music…

A lot of people these days would only choose one genre of music that they would prefer to listen to. Not with me, though. I’ve always liked to have eclectic taste in music. Meaning that I pretty much listen to everything including pop, rap and dance music. I listen to all sorts of music… whether it would be rock, metal, some country, jazz, classical, R &B, pop, rap, etc. You gotta have a variety of taste.

I never really cared what genre I listen to. I just listen to whatever grabs my attention and would listen to whatever I like. It’s why I don’t feel ashamed of listening to artists like Iggy Azalea, Janet Jackson, M.I.A., Bjork, Eminem, the N.W.A. and things like that. I gotta listen to some pop & rap music sometimes. To be quite honest, I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting into pop music and rap more and more. Not sure why. I guess it’s fun music to listen to and I think another reason why I’m listening to more pop & rap music ’cause I’m thinking about making that kind of music myself someday. Wouldn’t it be kind of cool if I write my own pop & dance music with a little bit of electronica? I’m not an electronic musician by any means but I would love to collaborate with an electronic musician someday so this musician can make some techno dance thing that I can sing over. Would be kind of cool! I would like to create my own dance music, ya know… stuff that you would hear in a nightclub. David Bowie already experimented with that for the “Earthling” album and Peter Gabriel experimented with some techno with his albums “So” and “Up”. I’d like to make a dance album sometime in the future, would be kind of cool.

I just get bored listening to one genre all the time ya know? Over the years of my life, I tried getting into all sorts of music. When I was in high school… I got into rap & dance music. I even got into mainstream country for a while but stopped listening to country music for good ’cause I didn’t like where it was headed.

I feel it’s important to listen to a wide variety of music. People would think that I listen to rock only but I don’t. I love rock n’ roll & metal but I listen to a little bit of everything else. It’s important to listen to as much music as possible other than your own preferred genre. People find it strange that I listen to pop, rap and even R & B sometimes but I like whatever grabs me, ya know? It doesn’t matter what genre it is as long as I like it.

I listen to all kinds of music ’cause I wanna make all kinds of music. One day I’m gonna stop playing acoustic music for a while and move on to rock n’ roll, maybe even metal or I could experiment with techno or hip hop. Anything is possible. I just like music, that’s all there is to it.

Kev

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