My Music Collection

I love music. It's just one of those things that is awesome and everyone loves in some form or other. I just happen to be slightly crazy when it comes to my music collection.

I have so much music on my computer that I could push play and it would continue for ten days straight without stopping and without repeating a song. And that's just the music on my computer. I'm always finding new music I love and adding to my already insane collection. I expect that by the time I get old (assuming I survive my inability to do anything without injury) I will have enough music to play for at least a month straight.

Now my music collection appears as quite random to a lot of people and often leads to many very notable "what the hell" looks from friends when I have it on shuffle (which is almost always). I will start off playing something like A.F.I. and then the song will change to Let's Go Sailing (since you probably don't know who that is, I assure that is a drastic change). Then some Rasputina, followed by Phineas and Ferb (I really have a bit too much of this). Then it's likely to leap to Jet and then onto some Patsy Cline. After some good old Patsy, there's Jimmy Hendricks, which will change to Demi Lovato (my sisters never stop giving me crap about this one). Next up some Beyonce followed by some Scooby-Doo chase music. And to top it all off some Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. (This list could go on for pages, but ain't nobody got time for that.)

Like I said, I love music. I really don't care the genre (except dubstep. I have no idea what the hell that is!), as long as it's good music. There are only a handful of artists that I absolutely can't stand listening to for even a moment in time. One of those is Serg Tankian. (I like his lyrics and meaning, but I prefer nails on a chalkboard to his voice.) Another would be Nicki Minaj because seriously that's not music. (My friend insists on playing this when I ride in her car and I have on occasion debated just opening the door and leaping to freedom.) Just about everything else I can stand even if I don't enjoy it. But Nicki Minaj and Serg Tankian are so invasive it physically hurts. (I am convinced if I listen to them for too long, I will end up like the aliens from Mars Attacks.)

The most prominent part of my music collection is oldies. I'm always jamming to oldies. Seriously, if I could only listen to one artist for the rest of my life it would be Ella Fitzgerald (and if you don't know who that is drop everything you are currently doing and Google her. Also that's just sad, dude). She has one of the greatest voices ever! (When an episode of Code Name Kids Next Door made a joke about a disease called Salmonella Fitzgerald that made you scat sing, it made my day. (Then it made me sad because I realized how few children would actually get it.) My favorite song is her version of It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing. (I listen to that no less than twice a week.)

While no one would ever dare mock someone for a love of classic jazz and swing, my love of doo-wop is often called into question. Of all my musical obsessions doo-wop is the most random. Seriously, like no one likes doo-wop. Even in my music appreciation class last year, the teacher (who was supposed to be teaching us all the great things about music) kept calling doo-wop "terrible music." I felt so awkward sitting there actually enjoying the doo-wop, while everyone, including the teacher, was treating it as a boring required part of the class. Seriously is doo-wop that bad?

A random side note of awesome: While listening to my music on shuffle, one of my best guy friends (who happens to be my sister's boyfriend) didn't bat an eyelash at The Platters (doo-wop in case you were wondering), but seriously questioned my sanity when Cohead and Cambria began to play. (For the record they have an awesome drummer.)

I love my music and am not afraid to show it. Life's just too damn short to not be singing I Feel Pretty while riding your bike to school (something I do daily, although the song changes). I love my music collection and am damn proud of it. Also I can out nerd even the nerdiest people with it. (Nothing can beat the Japanese Spiderman theme song.) And just so everyone knows, I will likely be the only old lady of this generation who will be playing the music of her grandma's generation. (A lot of Bing Crosby I'm afraid.)