{"id":18041,"date":"2013-03-15T11:43:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=18041"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:52:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:52:05","slug":"personal-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/personal-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEITHER musician is the “pretty boy wuss” in question, but hot damn they are pretty…<\/p><\/div>\n

I believe I\u2019m asking the right crowd, given the strong opinions in this forum: Do you ever felt conflicted about particular music you like because it\u2019s impossible to enjoy it without complicated personal involvement?<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s an up-and-coming indie band currently enjoying their moment in the SXSW spotlight. They\u2019re derivative, but they appeal to my Cure\/Cocteau Twins<\/strong> side, and I found myself whistling one of their songs this morning. I told Ladymiss Jade, \u201cI like them, but I feel so conflicted because I hated that kid!\u201d She smartly suggested that I launch this little op-ed concern.<\/p>\n

Do you ever felt conflicted about particular music you like because it\u2019s impossible to enjoy it without complicated personal involvement?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I won\u2019t mention the band, out of respect, but though I enjoy their music today, I had their leader as a student. He was a pretty boy wuss<\/i>. It drove me crazy, because I was always trying to support him to stand up for himself and fight back, but he\u2019d just collapse in whining resignation. A pansy whose mom did all his fighting for him, and<\/i> I was attracted to her whenever she came into my class to plead for him.<\/p>\n

Cut to the present, and I\u2019m listening, grooving, to his stuff, and I like it. I want to congratulate him. But him<\/i>? He probably hates me too, because he probably has nothing but resentment for those days, and that\u2019s the very thing that fuels his music, and now he and I have something in common (being a 90-pound weakling myself, when I was his age).<\/p>\n

Is there music you would not normally listen to, but because you\u2019re buds with them, you do listen and support them?<\/p>\n

D\u2019you see what I\u2019m getting at? The question arises: Is there a performer you admire, but your personal association just makes it impossible to listen objectively?<\/p>\n

\"Nor<\/a>

Nor is Slim referring to any of these pretty boy wusses.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I believe I\u2019m asking the right crowd, given the strong opinions in this forum: Do you ever felt conflicted about particular music you like because it\u2019s impossible to enjoy it without complicated personal involvement? There\u2019s an up-and-coming indie band currently enjoying their moment in the SXSW spotlight. They\u2019re derivative, but they appeal to my Cure\/Cocteau […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}