Are You a Swifty?

And Marjan Vahdat is a popular Persian singer ...

I guess i am not so much "snob" as i thought at first ...😊

I am in love here:

@mahgister 

I don't think being old has anything to do with liking or not like Swift or Gaga or any contemporary music any more than being a 20-something has anything to do with loving Nina Simone or Julie London or Jean-Luc Ponty. For you it seems more a question of style and being comfortable with what you enjoy, rather than making an effort to make room for new voices.

Forgive me for being didactic here, but it's like making friends as you get older: it's harder to do because everyone already has pretty much filled their social lives. And yet every now and then we make room. 

Like, I discovered Jasmine Sandlas, a Punjabi hip-hop artist, a few years ago and made room for her catalog in my listening. But a friend tried to get me into Muse and I just couldn't make room for them. Yet. Maybe in a few years, but probably not. 

And not to be cliche, but my mom would always blast Amalia Rodriguez when I was growing up - got me to make room for Fado early on. 

In my humble (not so much) opinion , there is two type of "popular music"...

---One popular music is rooted in deep soil of a country and in poetry as Bob Dylan An example taken at random,😉

---And there is "popular music" fabricated and manufactured in studio as in a chain of automobile assembly parts ( Lady Gaga ) .. It is not even bad, lady Gaga is very talentuous... It is just without "soul" nor any past roots...no attraction at all for me...

Then i am not a snob i like all popular music on earth save the one fabricated in North America ...I guess tylermunns is not wrong about popular music being trash even if the word trash is not the one i would have used ...

Between the two types of popular music i indicated above, there exist a third type which is a mix of the past roots of India and of the POP culture... I dont like as much this third type ...Bollywood Jasmine Sandlas so talented she was and she is please me way much less than Abida Parveen ... Because Abida is nearer his roots and sufi poetry and less POP in an American sense ...

I must be "snob" finally .... I admit it ... 😊

@mahgister  I sometimes look at it this way: how much of the music I listen to now do I think I'll still be listening to in 5 or 10 or even 15 years? And I think some music is perfectly fine to recognize as being of the five-year variety and then I'll let that music go because it has done its job and I'll move on to and consume another type of music that will last another 5 years. 

But I think when we were younger we tend to pack a lot of music that does last for 15 20 25 years or longer, like even 50 or longer, and the more we have of that music the less patience we have for a lot of the stuff that comes after it. Like I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you on Lady Gaga who is incredibly insightful and personal in her lyrics and music and is definitely not a manufactured, controlled mass produced artist. Not at all.

But then again, I remember a few years ago so and told me that Rihanna had a really good voice, and I remember saying something to the effect of how could you tell because she sounds the same as a lot of other singers. Which of course she doesn't and I know that but I'm not invested enough to actually discern her voice and approach to music among all the other artists who I think are similar.