Musics

I recently passed the 2,000 song mark on my iTunes library. Currently it is at 2,025 mp3's, not including podcasts. Until a couple weeks ago, that was something I felt ashamed of saying. I have friends with between 3,500 to 6,000+ songs. One of my substitute teachers claimed that he had over 30,000(!) songs. He was pretty chill, so I didn't deny it.

I used to tell people that I could name the artist of any song on my library within five seconds of the music playing. I can do that for most of the music now, but definitely not all of it. Looking back, it seems like I said that because I wanted to make it seem that people who had lots of music just downloaded it by the truckload, while my music was selective and carefully handpicked.

Between 6th-8th grade, I only listened to hip-hop/rap (gasp!). Starting freshmen year, I mixed it up and got really into classic rock, particularly the Beatles, Stones, Who, Queen, but eventually the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, and Eric Clapton. That era peaked mid-sophomore year.

Now, I like to think that I have a good taste in music. When I "Shuffle" on my iPod, anything from Van Morrison to Lady Gaga to the Sex Pistols to Odd Future could hypothetically appear. But who cares about that? How many times have you been asked, "How diverse is your music collection?" No. You get the same question every time: "What do you listen to?". My answer would be music.

Besides country.




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