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define ‘evolving’.
meandering? roaming? migrating? simply being bored and investigating another genre? Certainly. guilty of all these scenarios where music is concerned with one exception…
I’m simply unable to abide what ever the genre is being termed lately where the ‘artist’ merely talks, yells, mutters, and refuses to actully sing. or when the supposed chorus simply claps hands to the beat.
moreover, if the lyrics are objectifying or cruel and deroggetory, like ‘face don .
ass up … let’s kill a cop nonsense it doesn’t play on my equipment. or won’t ever play on it a second time, if a friend has voiced his or her desire to play it, for instance.
Americana as its being termed of late has my attention. that and bluegrass, and yeah, folk.
big band jazz and blues still grabs me. as does anything which has passion, artistry and intelligence to the arrangement and or lyrics.
I will likely always default to some hard rock or blues pretty regularly, but many genres doors have been opened by sheer curiosity or boredom thru the decades. the sole issue with music genres lays with the rcording. some recordings just lay flat on playback and as such don’t grab me or pull me in. this is especially evident when diving into a new genre. if it sounds flat or drab fidelity wise, or typical, I’ll usually just click onto something else.
Evolved? maybe I’ve ‘evolved’ into more of a fidelity snob.
the only ‘fix’ I’ve found for ‘lesser’ quality cuts has been to play them on lower fi gear. ala, desktop, iphone & blu tooth HPs.