If we want to enhance our music experience and skill in listening, do not listen to one genre of them. Listen entirely and as maximum as you can listen. But how does a punker like you listen to a not-punk song? Yup , it is said that a pure punker never listens to other stuffs but punk, so you would be a truly, purely, loyal punker. They won’t listen to any pop, ballad, disco, RnB and damn hip hop. ! This is what we call a narrow minded in adherence. Does that give you adequate? I mean, by listening to the same song everyday, would that make you happy and satisfy you in music? Nah,not for me. If I like a song, I would listen to it repeatedly until blood runs through my both ears, then it makes me like want to puke on my speaker if I listen to that song again. The point here, don’t you get bored?
Well lets take 60 years,you would live for 60 years, imagine your 60 years of living are filled with the same type of your favorite songs everyday..urrggh!! I would rather to spend my bucks to prevent my ears from wasting bloodshed.
Im not saying it is wrong, but here I would like you to open up your mind and stay out of rigidity. I suppose, lets make your punk genre as a root and influence in listening to other stuff. From punk, you can move to rock, alternative, garage rock, and grunge eventually. Not many of punkers bear to put Rnb and hip hop into their ears. They would feel irritated. This is because of their cultures and fashions are definitely different. Punk as we know a little bit emphasizes their rebel for every wrong did by the government. Mean while hip hop stories about money, women, sex and sometimes poverty. Hip hop was pioneered by blacks that apparently differ from punk that founded by whites. Blacks and whites never unite. That is why punk and hip hop would never be united.
Music evolves. Bowie for example has done many songs and albums that have different of genres. He moved from, slow rock which we can listen from his very first album, the space oddity, to glam rock in his Ziggy stardust, disco, soul (which is black’s music), he plays electronica in Earthling, and lately he plays modern songs in Reality that sound like we never listen before. He is an innovative, creative musician that does not put genre as a boarder in music. People would ask him, is that song was composed to seek for fans. Then he would say, nay, I made what I wanted and actually I don’t really know weather the fans would accept the songs.
In Malaysia I would prefer oag, butterfingers, flop poppy. These bands evolved. Let’s see butterfingers for example. Grunge was their root, and they actually have succeeded in making revolution in their career. Who would have thought, louqe plays such a weird song nowadays. I mean it in the song he does duet with ana rafali. I don’t think the song holds on grunge. It was a moronic moment when I first heard that he was composing a keroncong song titled Merdeka. But then I could accept it and supposedly enhanced my courage to him because he actually played kroncong on his very own way.
For me, I don’t listen to rnb and hip hop, but some of their legends really inspired me in music. The big names such as B.I.G, snoop dogs, 50 cent are really not common musicians you can find in this world. The ways they lived and grew up in their hood and fought, crime, involved in street savage are another interesting story to be explored.
To avoid myself from being embraced by rigidity, nowadays i've been trying to listen to Anuar zain, hazami,siti nurhaliza, dang dut and almost all that kind of stuffs, mostly axed rock/rock kapak. Even i myself before this admitted that those music are for gays!..ngeh ngeh. well i found that it is not hard to enjoy the music though. Once you are the listener, imagine you are in their golden years. for example, if you would like to listen to siti's, don't be a punker, you better be sissy instead.(hahaha)nevertheless, i don't do that .haha. Not many of us listen to the old bowie, because the music was made for the past years. so just imagine you are living in those years and enjoying the music, so that you can enjoy the music that came from the past which you think inappropriate to be listened these days.
Music is not all about genres. The messages delivered are another important thing to be noted and understood. Without a good content, certain song just could be enjoyed by it’s merely appearance. No value neither moral in the beauty of the song could be taken. It would not be beauty anyway. Therefore, the moral of this passage is, do not make genre as a guidance to be adhered, and also to distinguish people. Because we all have ears, we do listen and we enjoy!
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