Why do NTs typically listen to really mindless, happy music?

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I think that there's an implied thing with this thread, ie. implied that people who like darker stuff can appreciate at least some lighter stuff. The conversation is regarding why some have an allergy to deep/dark/pensive on unexamined knee-jerk reflex no matter what.

Because they don't actually like music for the music. There are Pop fans who like it for the musicality, but those are fans of the actual genres, not just commercial BS, most Pop fans aren't really into music.

I listen to happy music. In fact, it's mostly too happy for NTs. I run into quite the opposite problem. I probably come off serious, am a dude, etc, so people expect I should listen to, I dunno, Atreyu (I actually do listen to Atreyu once in a blue moon,) all the time. But most of what I listen to is like, girly pop music of various kinds. I've expanded my tastes a bit, and now I like non-electronic pop music (ala Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton) too, but for a LONG while, I pretty much listened to electronic pop music (eurodance, eurobeat, happy hardcore, some vocal trance, Italodisco) nonstop.

I'd listen to stuff like this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isjowfH_LH4[/youtube]
And people just thought I was the strangest person ever. I almost think the "NTs" spend too much time listening to depressing crap, really. I'd be like "WHY DON'T THEY LIKE SONGS LIKE THIS, WHAT'S THEIR PROBLEM!" So I guess I have the exact opposite "problem" you're describing with me and music. I dunno, people would get in my car and be quite "wtf" at me and my Japanese pop or eurobeat playing.

I used to like "harder" music when I was younger, more rock, metal, and rap, but I kinda outgrew it. I think my perspective changed somewhat, too, once I became more serious about my religion, I just no longer had the desire to hear "hard" music much, if that makes sense. I realized life is hard, and I don't wanna be reminded about the hardness of it when I listen to music. So music serves as a nice distraction to transport me somewhere better. Maybe that's why I like foreign music, too, it transports me somewhere else.

But yeah, I've got almost the opposite problem. Especially in America, people here have some weird pretentiousness about music I don't get. It's why disco got killed here. People, instead of just taking it for what it was, just fun music, got all mad about it not being "real" or whatever, and there was a concerted effort to kill it. Whereas disco lived another decade easily in Europe (and led to eurodisco/italodisco, one of my favorite genres.) Like we saw this again in the 90s. Eurodance got popular here, then it stopped being popular for some reason. The rest of the world was happy with nice happy fun music, but America was all like "rawr it needs to be harder/more real/more masculine" or whatever. For example, no American pop outfits lately have come out with songs like this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoslE0beBuk[/youtube]

I feel America tries too hard in it's popular music to like, make it something other than "pop" if that makes sense. That song in America would be like "DUDE YOU'RE GAY, WHY YOU LISTENING TO THAT, THAT'S GAY!" It's absurd. Then it seems like all pop music here gets very explicit sexually, so I guess people can like...not be gay? "YEAH THE CHICK IS SINGING ABOUT BONING A DUDE, YEAH! THIS MUSIC IS TOTALLY NOT GAY!" So I don't like much (I do like a little) American pop music for that reason, in that it's like, trying to be more than pop music, yet fails.

I dunno, I'm just sorta rambling. Either way, opposite problem you're describing.

i do not subscribe to the idea that NT's are inferior with their taste in music.

this is my favorite song, and it is by billy joel who is classified as "pop/rock". i like genuinely brilliant music and lyrics, and i am not influenced by fashion. this is a song that required him to exist for it to be written.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R3GtAnO66o[/youtube]
i may be considered a troglodyte by young minds, but i will not fail to see the brilliance of true genius as is evidenced in this song.

Blah, I'm disappointed with the constant talk of the NT/aspie dichotomy.

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Because record companies etc. keep thinking people are stupid and want something unchallenging. I disagree, I think the mainstream should expend its boundaries, instead of people telling off or looking down at people for listening to music in the mainstream.