To the girls who demand to be able to sing along to every
word of the songs they rehearsed on Chart Hits; And to lads who refuse to
listen to nothing but the slickest beats and ‘real’ rhythms with drops: You
people polarise the ‘quality’ of the party playlist; insisting it to pander to
only one or the other. The specification of gender here is purely anecdotal.
Best believe this applies to you sing-song boys and ‘hip’ chicks too.
Though there is nothing wrong with having a bias in your
music tastes don’t be so ridged when it comes to sharing sound space. As you
get older you’ll meet more and more people who are convinced that their tunes
are ‘objectively’ superior. These people refuse to share the jukebox and will
audibly pout and moan when a disagreeing style takes the reins as self-appointed
DJ. They’ll wait in line to jam in their ipod barely seconds before the chorus is
over; sometimes, even before it started.
Pop fiends who only rock out to established tunes, it’s
important to realise that sooner rather than later, you will stop being the
demograph of the UK top 40. Unless you want to be that embarrassing spinster,
drunk at the karaoke bar screeching T-Swifts ‘22’ at 44, you’d better broaden
your horizons and try dancing to something more suited to your taste. You might
just uncover a vein of music gold that will keep you musically entertained long
after your grandchildren are dancing to ‘Now That’s What I Call Music 673’. A
little more open-mindedness could take you somewhere beautiful.
Special snowflakes who insist that all chart music is
homogenised trash and beneath you, there’s
no need to be so flippant. You know the words to a million 80’s bangers; but
they were on Top of the Pops too. Who’s to say that timeless music isn’t being
made in the mainstream right now? You maintain your guilty pleasures in spite
of your audiophillic views but you should at least know that liking something
“ironically” is the same as regular liking it. Now that we’ve established that
the prevailing genres aren’t all bad, maybe you can appreciate that having a
little more tolerance for those catchy number 1s might just allow you to have a
little more fun. And if you believe you are too cool to stand out of your chair
and dance with your girl-friends as BBC radio one chimes away, you probably
just aren’t that cool anyway.
Written by Mide Adebambo
Maybe we should even give these guys a chance?
Maybe we should even give these guys a chance?
