#14 To Each Their Own: How do you fight a taste in music?
Originally posted here on November 15, 2021.
Okay. I know the prompt went up, like, fifteen minutes ago, but this incited a rage in me that I just had to get out. First bit is talking about myself and my music taste vs my music taste as Gordon, second part is basically bitching about my headmates. Sorry guys. You can also consider this Goratrix's post, since I'll be outing his entire taste in music below the cut.
So, starting off with the fictional side of things! As Gordon, I don't have a lot of memory of my taste in music, but from what I vaguely remember from my air guitar noema, it was pretty similar to what I listen to now: anything you can really just sit down and jam to, whip out an air guitar to, maybe some headbanging on the intense parts. It's stuff to jump around and dance in overdramatic ways to when you think no one's listening. (I get really into rock and similar genres, okay?) Obviously, my exact music taste isn't the same, since I like stuff that's come out during the body's lifetime and not whatever was playing in 1998 or before, but like... good enough. I'm content with that. Of course, I like stuff outside of that, quite a lot of stuff outside of that narrow category, but that's all I know that was shared.
Now I'm gonna talk about my headmates. Tanix basically shares my music taste, as do Aegis and Null, although I'm neutral towards Icon For Hire while they LOVE it, and I take our shared love of Starset to a whole new level. (It all comes of Tanix, Aegis, and Null being kind of splinters of the same whole, but I'm getting off-track.) Valence can jam with that, but he also likes anything that has an insane amount of energy OR weirdly horny songs. Like. Dude LOVES his horny music. Kyir likes anything from the 2000s and early 2010s--lots of Linkin Park, Three Days Grace, that kind of thing. Caspian leans towards anything with a Medieval or Renaissance sound. Dude plays a fucking mandolin, I'm not making this up. He just wants to play some calm music you can tell a story to, and I respect that, but it's so violently different from everyone else that we rarely listen to anything for him. Sorry, man.
And then there's fucking Goratrix.
Okay. He's my headmate. I love him. But there is something very wrong with this man. He vibes with anything with the same kinds of sounds that Caspian's into, but mostly from familiarity rather than actual like of it. He loves piano and violin, to the point of him being fairly familiar with playing both back in his source. Dude loves a good pipe organ for the drama. (I think it's required that all vampires like and/or play the piano, pipe organ, or both.) But he also, and I could not make this up if I tried, fucking loves Vocaloid music. Yes, really, yes, seriously, yes, it's ridiculous. It drives me nuts but the host enjoys it too so we listen to a lot of it. What the hell is going on in this headspace? What has it come to? I can't even say if he has good taste in them or not, because it's not my cup of tea! I mean, glad that he found some modern music he likes, unlike SOME, Caspian, but it's just... I don't understand it. It seems so far outside of his wheelhouse of musical taste that it totally blindsided me. Not exactly what you'd expect the 1000+ year old vampire wizard to roll out with on his Spotify playlist, you know? I'm mostly offended that it's outside of his aesthetic.