There once was a person in Romania who was very much against what is considered low-quality music in Romania – manele.
To me, the issue is not the music in itself, but being the kind of person who likes that music.
There is some music which is a bit more complex, which might relax you, which might give you some good mood (classical, jazz, others too), and there is some music which might be considered low-quality, because it doesn’t engage you, instead of relaxing it might annoy you, and bring you in a poor mood (I’m not looking at manele only, but there are other genres, also, with poor quality music).
Now, you might listen from time to time to some manele. That might be fine, but if you’re the kind of person who can’t listen to Vivaldi without asking „What is this boring music?”, and doesn’t find any pleasure in anything classical, jazz, and other more high-quality music, this might be an issue.
I’m talking from my perspective, here. I listened, from around 2007 up until 2018 to a lot of classical music.
I didn’t like it, although I forced myself into it.
But I did like Tudor Gheorghe, or Johnny Cash, or Maria Tănase, or Andrew Lloyd Webber, which is a bit in the good area.
In the summer of 2020, a miracle happened – I could listen to classical music and not get bored by it. I’m so happy about this, that these days I’m listening to quite a few classical songs.
Am I different now than I was some years ago? For sure.
Was the problem that I listened to, for example, to Katerine Avgoustakis ‘Ayo Technology’ (4th most listened song), as opposed to songs 1-3 (which are a bit more high-quality):
- Maria Tanase – Trenule, masina mica
- Johnny Cash – Solitary Man
- Tumbalalaika – Andrea Guerra – Faye Susan Nepon (Prendimi L’anima)
?
I don’t have a problem with the fact that I liked Ayo Technology. I have a problem that I was the kind of person who would like that song.
