Blame it on the Boogie...

I recently re listened to my music on iTunes and rediscovered some songs I used to love; Stereophonics' 'Have a Nice Day', The Wreckers' 'Lay Me Down', Adele 'Crazy For You', Elvis 'Burning Love' my taste in music has always been very varied, it largely stems from my dad and his taste in music. He loves Luther Vandross, Elvis, The Police as well as old school disco anthems from the 70's to the 90's and the odd R&B song in the charts now.

It got me thinking about other people tastes in music and how often people are defined by the music they listen to.

Often there are the cheesy pop hits that everyone my age loved when they were kids, I distinctly remember having loud out of tune singalongs with my sister to *NSYNC, Britney Spears, S Club 7, Pink you know the rest. We weren't ashamed of it all, but we were constantly told off for messing about so much (it only made us laugh though). But now pop seems to be a guilty pleasure, people often sing along quietly to Bieber songs then claim indifference in the company of friends.

There is the rock genre, divided into so many sub-genres that I doubt even the most music savvy could list all of them; soft rock, hard rock, metal, heavy metal, punk, alternative on and on..... the point I am trying to make is that when I was in secondary school I had a period when I got into a bit of soft rock. Nothing that including screaming and too much swearing, it was fairly tame most of the bands being fairly mainstream. But I followed the lead of my new friends and did the whole black nail polish, too much black eye liner and poker straight hair.

I never actually looked like someone who could fit in at a rock concert, I just looked like a girl with black nail polish and too much eye makeup (maybe the others thought I had two black eyes). However, a girl once approached me and asked if I was an 'emo' then proceeded to ask if I cut my wrists! At the time I laughed it off, because it was ridiculous she come have come to such a conclusion but people make assumptions all the time; based on looks, taste in music, interests.

So to quote a song 'What's wrong with peace, love and understanding?' (no, I am not a hippie :P)