As I was growing up my dad was always my life line, in music and just for about anything. My dad has consistently been in bands and has played music my entire life. When I was old enough to start find my own music, I would sit on my computer for hours just looking for new artist that I had never heard of. As I was on this search I realized that I would always automatically skip songs that had female vocalist in them. I am not this way now, but before there was always something that sounded off putting or wrong when I listened to them. It was to the point where my dad would play female singers in the car just to see my reaction. In that time in my life my mother and I did not have a very good relationship, I had a twin sister who would spend all hours of the day with my mom and me my dad. Once my mom and I started building our relationship a little more, I found myself branching out of my all male genre and started adding a little more female. I'm not sure how comfortability with genders affects music but in my own experience it sees to play a little role in it. When I finally started listening to female singers, the song that caught my eye was Ghostride by Crumb.
Your background story helped bring your blog together. I really liked how you made that connection with your parents to your taste in music. That connection made me compare my music taste to my relationship with my parents. I listen to mostly female artists and now I'm wondering if that has anything to do with growing up with a single mother. Your blog was very thought provoking.
ReplyDeleteWow, I used to do the same thing and skip female artists when I was looking for new music to listen to. It seems like it was ingrained into our brains at such an early age to lean towards male vocalists. I liked hearing a little bit of background and about the bond that music helped you form with your parents.
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