Music is one of the many things I feel unqualified to talk about despite thinking a lot about it. Some call the zeitgeist around music types and their surrounding subcultures 'pretentious gatekeepers', and others feel it's completely justified. If you look for one specific genre of music, there will be people in the comments saying that the music you found isn't actually of that genre, but of a different kind. I look around on Spotify for playlists, and I see playlists labelled 'REAL [insert genre]' or 'ACTUAL [insert genre]'. and like. it's so HARDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD to find music that gels with me, and sometimes what gels with me is really really embarrassing. There was a phase I went through at around age 12 where I'd only listen to the specific type of dubstep used in Geometry Dash levels. When I was 14, the only playlists I had on constant rotation were a meme song playlist and an animation meme song playlist. my second most listened to song that year was fucking #BrooklynBloodPop... I feel like those have tainted my music taste forever and ever and ever.

But still, I listen to music. I enjoy music. I stumble through the creation of music sometimes (none of it has lyrics yet). Something something can a rat in the gutter not look at the stars... I am the rat (or fox, as it may be) in the gutter, and I'm going to talk about music. I'll fuck up terminology, but that's alright because we're all just land-dwelling hairy fish on a blue orb in space and one day all energy in the universe will reach a static state. So yeah.

I like Fall Out Boy.