DIMM011: Music (that I like)
I've expressed a few music opinions on my channel before, but I wanted to weigh in on what in general I listen to.
First of all, here is my everything spotify playlist. I'm one of those monsters that just has one big playlist of all of the things that I listen to, and skip to what I want at a particular time. I don't know what to tell you, that's what I do.
I guess if you could look over my playlist and find some semblance of a through line, the only thing I could possibly see is that this is what people who are queer and neurodivergent listen to (makes sense). This playlist will give you whiplash if you aren't ready for it. One song you'll be listening to like a slow somber song by an independent queer artist in her bedroom, then the next song is On Sight by Kanye, then to a million different genre's going on and on for hours.
Honestly, I don't give a single shit that my music taste is "weird", and that's what this playlist is all about. I have tried to make my playlists try and cater to a crowd before, and it just doesn't work. I ban myself from the aux, I will just play cringe.
My music taste didn't just come out of nowhere, so I wanted to talk about how I came to find what I like.
The first music I listened to was, of course, minecraft song parodies. I'm talking fallen kingdom, hunger games, minecraft style, all the classics. This was like the first time that I would listen to music recreationally. I remember vividly me listening to a Minecraft Style 1 hour loop and I loved it.
After that I started to want some kind of other music, so I started listening to the most base-level rap that I could find. I didn't know how music streaming services worked, so I actually just looked up "rap" on youtube and started listening to that. I was listening to Mac Lethal, and... Mac Lethal I don't really remember any of the artists. They would basically just be something for me to remember all of the lyrics to and say it fast to impress my friends. I can do the fast part of rap god still, and at one point I could do alphabet aerobics but not anymore. This wasn't really like good music, it just kinda got me engaged in listening to it.
A part of this rapping fast to impress your friends in middle school thing was a song called Whoa Whoa Whoa by George Watsky which actually resonated with me. Not the subject matter obviously, the song is about having sex, but just the vibe of the song. I had finally found something that had clicked a switch in my brain like "oh this is what music is supposed to be, this is how it is supposed to feel". It's not the greatest song ever made, but at my age, it may as well have been.
I wanted to find more artists like Watsky, so I found the late great E-Dubble and his Freestyle Friday series, which I had heard on some old Vanoss videos. I found Spose, which I think I'm gonna make an entire blog post about in general because I love him so much. I also found Fort Minor, a lot of kind of edgier artists which I was very much into at the time. Also some meme artists like Pink Guy, Yung Gravy, and Billy Marchiafava. God damn this was a just a cringe time for me as a person, just like trying to be "cool" or whatever get the fuck out AAAAAA.
As I went on, the gimmicky artists started to fade away into the background, and the ones with actual talent start to show. I would basically be trying to grind out the entire catalogue of the people I had found, to see if they had any actual meat on their bones. A lot of them fell away at this time, except for my main two, which were Spose and Watsky. I would listen to their whole discographies over and over, and it was this weird feeling where I was like uncovering gems in their catalogues. And they were also releasing new music, which I had seriously never seen before. These two are still heavily in my rotation to this day.
Around 2020 I had started to get more in touch with myself, because what else was there to do during lockdown? I was so bored that I started listening through my spotify discover weekly for the first time ever, and I found a little diddy called 6up 5oh Copout (Pro/Con) by Will Wood and the Tapeworms. This single song would change the trajectory of my entire music taste for the rest of time. Listening to Will Wood's music was much like when I first listened to Watsky's music, where I didn't know that music could be so good. It would lead me down the pipeline of listening to Tally Hall, Miracle Musical, Lemon Demon, Bear Ghost, The Scary Jokes, etc, etc. I don't know what I would call this type of music other than like neurodivergent music. That's the only possible throughline.
And basically any music that provides my brain with sustinence like that is what I like. Which means that I don't really have a genre to call my home like some people (when someone asks me what music I listen to I'll just link them to this long ass article). In order of what was added to my playlist I also listen to Lil Nas X, The Scary Jokes, Bill Wurtz, Kero Kero Bonito, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Louie Zong, Lil Yachty, Kendrick Lamar, Weezer, austenyo, Masayoshi Takanaka, Radiohead, Kanye, MF DOOM, Cheekface, Tyler (The Creator), Charli xcx, JPEGMAFIA, Vylet Pony, Magdalena Bay, and many other small ones I probably missed.
As you can tell from that list, I am a fucking loser. But sometimes I like being a fucking loser, see you on Wednesday to talk about more music stuff, loser.