{"id":3664,"date":"2016-05-01T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2016-05-01T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T03:43:08","slug":"good-music-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/good-music-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Music is Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Darien Campo\r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>In high school, my Facebook page proudly proclaimed that I liked \u201call music except rap and country.\u201d Of course, this wasn\u2019t true at all; I couldn\u2019t have given you the name of one Vaporwave track, I hadn\u2019t heard a single Gregorian chant in my life. Which is a little embarrassing for someone who likes \u201call music\u201d (except rap and country). What I really meant was that I really liked classic rock and heavy metal, and pretty much nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere around my junior year I began to frequent bandcamp.com, a website I still use to find artists. By chance, I happened to run across the album \u201cNostalgia\u201d by a trip-hop band called Wren. This album opened my eyes (and ears). After I first heard those gorgeous beats and beautifully sampled vocals, I realized that I had spent my life ignoring an entire world of music I should have given a chance. After Wren, I learned to withhold my judgement on new music, and instead open up and let myself explore new ideas and sounds.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very easy to find a genre that\u2019s comfortable for you and stick to it, but I\u2019m telling you to be careful not to fall into this trap. It always saddens me to hear someone who \u201conly listens to rock\u201d or \u201conly listens to rap.\u201d Just the same as someone who refuses to listen to an entire genre based on the merit of a single band, or because of how obnoxious the fans are. Sure, Radiohead fans are crazy and we need to shut up about our conspiracy theories, but have you HEARD \u201cIn Rainbows\u201d? I mean, yeah, Neutral Milk Hotel fans can be really pretentious, but there\u2019s a REASON \u201cIn the Aeroplane Over the Sea\u201d is so revered.<\/p>\n<p>My high school band teacher shared this Miles Davis quote with us: \u201cGood music is good no matter what kind of music it is.\u201d I try to remember this quote every time I\u2019m exploring for new artists. I can guarantee that if you don\u2019t like hip hop, there is still a hip hop artist out there for you. The same goes for any other genre. If you love music, you do yourself no favors by closing any doors. Open your ears and scour the internet and record stores around you, there is beautiful music around every stereo; be sure you don\u2019t miss any of it.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at dcampo13@wou.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In high school, my Facebook page proudly proclaimed that I liked \u201call music except rap and country.\u201d Of course, this wasn\u2019t true at all; I couldn\u2019t have given you the name of one Vaporwave track, I hadn\u2019t heard a single Gregorian chant in my life. Which is a little embarrassing for someone who likes \u201call music\u201d (except rap and country). What I really meant was that I really liked classic rock and heavy metal, and pretty much nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}