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Labeling Music Is Wrong

It's not easy to avoid putting music in separate shelves. It's human nature - we all have different sensibility patterns and proneness to emotion clicks, and one may place medieval music in the enjoyable shelve and absolutely hate the likes of Dimmu Borgir, while the next person may find traditional chinese music boring and like math rock.

Labeling music into separate genres hinders your knowledge and eventually shrinks the part of your brain responsible for your likable playlist - to a point where you automatically set this or that band as bad in your mind, without even having actually listened to any of their repertoire. Inside you, progressive metal is too technical, the songs are too long and have endless solos, so if a new Dream Theater album comes out, you automatically tag it as I won't like this.

It's just wrong. And here's proof.

Most of you remember Hanson, that nineties teen pop band, famous for their hit single MMMBop. Don't pretend you don't, I bet you're singing it while reading right now. Teen idols are a very misunderstood kind amongst music lovers - pretty faces and hysterical female audiences don't usually meet the eclectic musician ear (well, there's always The Beatles, but let's put it aside for now). But things aren't always as lame as they may seem. Eclectic folks, here's a Radiohead cover by 1997 pre-adulthood stars, Hanson.