My Criteria For: Music
Well, music is in some ways more simple than webcomics or anime or books, and in some ways more complex. It tends to be a highly opinionated media. I try to listen to a little of everything, but of course everyone has their favorite music. Although, I don’t focus on genre as much as artist.
Music is hard to describe compared to anime and webcomics. Maybe music is too broad. I can say that music starts by appealing to the sense, then appeals to the mind. Anime appeals to the senses with bright colors, but it and webcomics rely mostly on capturing your mind. Music doesn’t do that, it goes straight for your ears. If they accept it, your brain pays attention to see what’s up. This is probably why most people can somewhat enjoy most music, but only love specific music.
There’s tons of reasons to like or dislike a song, so this part might be hard. I like instrumental pieces, but if there’s singing I particularly like a mix of male and female vocals. Syncopation and swing beats are pretty awesome too. My favorite instruments are the piano(generic I know), the accordion(awesome instrument with the right usage), and xylophone. I really don’t care about bpm that much, though I won’t listen to a slow song when playing an FPS or such. As far as remix and techno styles, I enjoy energetic styles.
Dislikes. I dislike A Capella, and anything with vocals that are much louder than the instruments, or anything were vocals don’t stand out enough from the instruments to understand (I’m looking at you Metal). I dislike bad songs, and I dislike songs with lyrics I think are stupid.
It just now occurred to me that I haven’t discussed anything I like in particular in these, so maybe I should start doing reviews and posts besides these soon.
