What is your favorite genre of music?
When it comes to music I went from the Osmonds to Barry Manilow and stopped.
I love strong lyrics, meaning, and melody. I do not love people screaming at me with a loud rock cacophony making it incomprehensible. Noise is not music.
I tend to stay quiet among my friends and never admit that I don’t know who 90% of these people are. Isn’t a Prodigy just clever?
There are random songs that I love “I believe I can fly”, “Something inside so strong.”, “I made it through the rain”, “Impossible dream”. I could go on…and further on than my friends might realise. Even to classical: “Eine Kleine Nachtmusic”, the “Bolero” before Torvill and Dean.
I see all my friends reminiscing about their head banging days, but I didn’t spend an hour on my hair every morning to start that nonsense. Nor did I like risking my ears for Pink Floyd played at ear shattering, neighbourhood annoying, levels. I also like 50s music, plus the Bees Gees, the Monkeys, the Beatles, and goodness knows who else.
By the time you’ve mentioned the Osmonds and Manilow you’ve been written off by all but those who understand.
The much more hip tend to smile indulgently and say “bless her” even though they’re of an age that you hear a lot about their hips that has more to do with “dare I try to roll over” than rock ‘n roll.
Whereas as with the Osmonds, who actually covered any number of sounds with a great deal of musical flexibility, and in Wayne Osmond had one of the greatest rock guitarists ever, and Barry Manilow, you had a range of thoughtful, melodic, music that stays in your heart forever, if the meaning reaches you.
I like meaning not noise. I also love the original rock (around the clock)!
Ah happy days. reputation for coolness wrecked, don’t care. 🤣
Deb Hawken - Amorah 