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bunnyb34r · 4 months

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Just word spilling here to get this out of my head

I was thinking lately yknow how people always say stuff like "oh I hate rap" or "anything but country" when music tastes get brought up

I have a theory that the reason why is in how/where they're exposed to said genre initially/most frequently

Like people who hate rap, maybe it's that they don't seek it out on their own bc they typically only ever hear it coming from someone's loud speakers (car speakers bass blasted, on the bus, at school) and they then associate the genre with "loud sound 'intruding' on my personal space"

Or maybe they have racist parental figures and THEY always sneered at rap music when they were a kid so they grew into young adults/adults who hate rap bc of the racial bias they were influenced by as a kid

And country maybe the ONLY times they hear it/ the only kind they get exposed to typically is the post 9/11 patriotic shit and that makes them uncomfortable/they dont like that shit (understandable) so they think aaalll country is that kind

I mean it all boils down to them needing to examine their racial bias that underlines their hate (since rap is a predominantly black genre and country was started by black singers) AND explore the genres to find something they do like and find what they appreciate in the genre based on that

I think this also applies to other commonly "hated" genres (but for the majority it IS mostly an underlying racial bias)

Anyway idk I'm just throwing this into the void so my brain shuts up

#marquilla #i think another one is people who say they hate gospel bc their grandma dragged them to church as a kid so they hate that association and #just shut it out without examining the genre on a secular level and examining their underlying racial bias #this has been on my mind since that post ab why people say they hate certain genres and 'shockingly' (not) like all of them have black #roots/are apart of black culture and how people would rather just shut down and ignore whole genres bc they 'dont like them' without #once considering hey maybe mr #me hating all these genres IS racially motivated... maybe i should examine my biases and seek out subgenres of those genres to finc #something i do like instead of blankly writing it off as a whole #like it made me wonder if it was also related to how they were exposed to the genre like okay why do you like rock music? why do you like #indie music? where did you first hear it?#like i like pop bc i have fond memories of listening to it with my friends and family at a young age #similarly i didnt like most country growing up bc thats all my aunt would let us listen to in her car but once i #started choosing what subgenres and artists to listen to pf it i changed my mind

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