Confirming what I knew already, lol

[yvannairie]

So there was a post a while back about how people who say Bring Me To Life is a bad song b/c it's become a meme just can't admit it still goes hard, which prompted me to comment that similarly people who act like Linkin Park is a meme band just don't wanna admit they totally were blasting Meteora/Minutes to Midnight back in early Oughts, which left me throwing some LP on in the background while I'm on the road

And yeah, people who act like it's bad for being popular enough to become a meme are fucking idiots who probably just can't admit it's not for them, personally.

(Like, I get it, I'm a Finn who's never particularly liked metal, sometimes music just doesn't resonate with you, but there's so many reasons for why this would resonate with people and probably still does, it's just that humorless bastards think it's funny to mock anyone who has an emotional reaction to art.)

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[yvannairie]

Yeah, PotF is Poets of the Fall, and Dreaming Wide Awake is actually from my favourite album of theirs. It's pretty generally what their sound was like up to the 2010's after which they become more experimental and less to my tastes, although the new songs they had in Control were pretty damn amazing. My Dark Disquiet became all at once my third favourite Poets song of all time.

Funnily enough, Poets is actually way out from what I usually listen to -- I joke about my favourite genre being "things with a good beat", so everything from rock to jazz to pop to trance works really well for me and the only music I really dislike is the type that is just too much of a mess of textures for it to be satisfying.

Hell, Spotify keeps putting EDM into my daily lists b/c I got randomly served Yoiyoi Kokon in the middle of my Nerdy Song playlist and I super fell in love with REOL's sound. (Although the rest of their stuff is a lot more "pure" electronica, Yoiyoi Kokon is kind of a weird combination of traditional Japanese musical instruments and the lyrics are in "old" Japanese and the whole song just reminded me really hard of my favourite anime of all time so that's the one that gets to be my favourite. The rest of their stuff is more pixel-pop-y electronica)