She is kinda the same. She begrudgingly likes some of the stuff I listen to, and catches herself enjoying it sometimes only to say, it's lame really. She just can't bring herself to admit anything I like is good.
My wife really loves reggae, predominantly. That's our main crossover. She likes a lot of pop like Lizzo, St Vincent, Solange. She likes classics Fleetwood Mac, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison. We both also love Stevie Wonder actually. I'm a big Bestles fan and she's a bit hit and miss with The Beatles. I can happily listen to most of what she likes, but she does have some questionable tastes. What about you?
She's also mainly a radio listener and generally just listens to 6Radio, which is great as far as radio stations go.
Reggae?, I guess I can follow as something some either love it or can't stand it. I often say I like Ska (Instead of Reggae) like I say with Country music, I'll mention liking Bluegrass.
It sounds like her music taste is accessible enough. My wife does like Lizzo and Destiny's Child, more than say, the members solo careers.
Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, St.Vincent (who I'll admit I used to love myself, but she's lost me now) at least you guys do share some taste. But I take it most Prog and Metal doesn't do much for her? I suppose you could point to some examples of some of those artists actually making songs that are progressive or art-pop/rock.
Like your wife, my wife DID listen to the radio/mtv a ton back in the 80's and 90's ,more so. Now she listens to specific radio stations and radio shows, that largely play a lot of 80's pop especially.
I find more or less all the music she likes and loves, I don't mind, and sometimes do really like. The Monkees/Michael Nesmith, Hall & Oates, George Michael/Wham!, Michael Jackson and even like KD Lang, I have grown to appreciate more having her play them often. And the small number of newer artists she is into: Mayer Hawthorne, Josh Rouse, Chromeo, The Bird & the Bee, Fountains of Wayne, I find I enjoy, but not like her.
There's only a few artists that we both almost equally like, but even when that happens like Queen or Elton John, we prefer different eras.
It's funny how we ended up together as both loving music, but our tastes are always different in some way (it's almost a fun/funny friendly competition in some way). But that is her nature to be competitive. For example, she pretty much hates The Beatles (while feeling like she's the biggest Monkees fan on the planet), but it's really funny how she ends up knowing many of their songs and sings them sometimes. The same thing holds true with The Who actually, lol. We've actually made Vinyl videos about Record Store Day that I put on YouTube and it's always noticed the contrast on what each of us show. She has the Pop and Soul records, and I have the Prog and Metal, lol.
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