Cassielanthropuss

single most relatable post on this website actually

I was ashamed of my music tastes for years because of this!

I love how the people dictating who you should and shouldn't interact with based on their music taste are the same people who will call other people manipulators

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 if they listen to the beatles then they're probably a cannibal with a taste for h u m a n f l e s h

is this person gonna think im a phillistinic moron for not knowing the same obscure stuff they do or are they just hoping ill list a name they recognize? regardless, i will disappoint them

People trying to scry the content of someone's soul by fixating on just random shit about them is the most mindnumbing thing about the internet. It's like a game, "see how tenuous of a connection I can pull."

if you listen to steely dan you're objectively evil and divorced because walter white mentioned liking them once

Oh man. In the past 5 years or so, I've been drifting more and more into the goth scene in my city. And the music is great and the people are mostly great, but damn if this particular mental hangup hasn't infected basically everybody in the goth subculture.

It is a music based subculture, so some of it makes sense. But so many times I've entered a conversation about music with someone, and thought we were talking about our personal music tastes, the music itself--things I enjoy talking about--Only to realize that the other person thought we were taking about "who you and I are as people."

Namedropping of major goth bands has secret language-of-flowers ass meanings to people. Mentioning Joy Division means you're a sub. Mentioning Bauhaus means "smart" or "please think I'm smart".

When I say Molchat Doma and Clan of Xymox were my favorite sets at this music festival, I meant that I liked their sets. I'm not saying "I want you to know I'm an ethereal doomer who's into tiktok" or whatever, but that's what people seem to hear.

Its weird to be hanging out in a music subculture, going to concerts and clubs with people and listening lots of different music I like and care about--and yet I find myself avoiding talking about music with these people unless I know them really well already.