Do you talk to your friends about music?

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I saw a quip somewhere—might have been a newspaper column—about how Gen Z doesn't talk about music the way previous generations did. You know, exchanging recommendations, trading records, that kind of stereotypical Boomer and Gen X thing.

Does this ring true to your experience?

I'm no Zoomer, but a younger millenial, and my memories of conversations about music were mostly being quizzed by hipsters about whether I knew this or that band, or people questioning whether I was a "real" fan because I claimed to like a band but didn't know all their albums. So I don't really like talking about music because I find it saps from my enjoyment of it, and I think Gen Z might be getting this one right.
 
I'm a xennial and I enjoy talking about music but only if others are receptive and open about it
 
I’m Gen X and married to a musician, so… yes, music is part of daily conversations. It really was a major part of social bonding for us when younger.
 
Although I don’t think there is much validity to generational categorizations, I was either the end of gen X or the beginning of gen Y, depending on the researcher. I do relate to X a bit more. I do recall sitting around with friends listening to entire albums. We would talk about the music, the lyrics, and meanings. Sometimes pick on each other’s tastes with the upmost immaturity. It brought us together in a way that helped define our friendships, our cliques, and our individuality.
 
Only with my partner. Too many other times in my life, doing so resulted in the other person(s) withdrawing in general because they came to see me as weird, manic, obsessive, mentally ill, or some other variety of “touched.”

I’m open to receiving, but so few want to share.

Results are always better with artists and specifically, musicians.

Cheers,
Ian
 
In talking about music, I want to explore movements, and scenes, dissect styles and pollination, consider bands, musicians, and performers.

I want to talk about songwriting, arrangement, and orchestration. Melodies, harmony, chord progressions, motifs, and lines. Vocal ranges and mic technique.

Recording engineering, mix techniques, and production. Soundstage, and ambience. Preamps, power stages, speakers, pickups, guitars, bases, drum kits, and snares. Discrete analog synths and digital algorithms. Tape at 15ips and jitter and clock. Pedals and compressors and equalization. Vocal frost and combo snarl and warm thumpy chunk.

Studios, the where and the who. The managers, the labels, the venues. The stories. Timbre and rhythm. The references. The symbolism. The math. The feelings, subtle and overwhelming. The meaning for each individual. What someone loves, and why.

The singles, the albums, and the charts. The decades. The public. The politics.

It’s fair, I may appear to be obsessive. I’ll offer that despite my ADHD, this has always compelled my interest and attention, all my life, from the very start.

A few things in life get me really excited and passionate. Music is one of those things.

Cheers,
Ian
 
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