> My friends often accuse me of having no taste in music
> becasue I like all sorts of singers and music. I was
> wondering if anyone else has ever said to you something
> like:
>
> "You can't like (so and so) if you like (insert name)"
>
> For instance a friend of mine was a huge Elvis Costello
> fan. I am a huge fan too. I then told this friend that I
> was a Billy Joel fan. He said that he couldn't understand
> how I could be both.
>
> OK. here's the question... Can you be a Jim Steinman fan
> and not be a........ fan?
>
> Or, is music just music. We can like what we like. But
> this attitude is no fun!!!
I think the film "Good Morning Vietnam" was making, among its subtexts, the point that one cannot be a fan of Polka music and also Rock and Roll music. Conversely, some might think that adoring the sound of an accordian might be against odds with loving the sound of a guitar. But, music is music, indeed, to most that I've spoken to on the subject including myself (do I talk to myself?). The real question perhaps might come between forms of "music" and music itself, in peoples' divergent definitions of what music is.
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