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A friend of mine recommended to me a band called The Pipettes and sent a selection of songs for me to listen to.

It started off feeling kind of upbeat girl pop and while that impression was briefly challenged as I was listening to “It Hurts to See You Dance So Well” ultimately it was a song that I found it difficult to relate to.

This feeling persisted as I continued to listen to the music whilst doing dishes and then after that, idly playing some games and reading a book.

Maybe if I were in a more energetic mood I could get into this but right now, as I’m writing down these notes and listening to “Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me” it seems just too much out of alignment with how I feel, perhaps being neither something I have related to nor something I would even especially want to?

This doesn’t quite make sense to me though. I listen to all sorts of music that I shouldn’t really relate to at all. What is it about gangster rap that I find so fun to listen to? Reckless excess and macho personas? Uhhh… whatever it is, I don’t know, but it’s one quality that evidently creates enjoyment out of music for me in a way that my experience of the Pipettes thus far does not.

I’ll try another listen tomorrow by which time my mood might have changed and I’ll have a different reaction.