Asklemmy

I’m assuming everyone here listens to music somewhat regularly, but I’m curious about how much you care about it. And i specifically want to know about your enjoyment regardless if it's considered a timeless masterpiece or just a meme song.

I care about it a great deal. I have no genre or time/era preferences and will listen to basically anything that is interesting in some way or simply connects with me on an emotional level, though I do love a good interpretation of genre convention too.

Do you care about having decent enough devices to enjoy it or do you just buy the cheapest pair of earbuds to silence the world around you?

I'm no audiophile but I invested in some DT1990s years back paired with a nice EQ and a Bravo V2/FiiO E10K that serve me well to this day.

Do you have favorite albums or do you just hit play on a random playlist and zone out?

Neither. Weird dichotomy.

I have favourite albums and artists, but most artists I like these days aren't really "album artists" and most music I regularly enjoy are artists from 2010s onwards or from pre-1990s era of singles dominating. Even with the album era of 90s-2010s when CDs really sealed the deal on albums as the default, I don't regularly listen to albums as a whole.

I make my own playlists and I mostly use them as a collection of songs I like where I pick out the individual ones and listen to those on repeat, until I pick out the next song. No shuffle, no algorithm/autoplay ever. Most playlists are either genre themed or hyper personal life arcs. I must have spent hundreds of hours making them, curating and sorting them.

Do you ever listen to music just to enjoy it and nothing else?

Yes

Do you talk with passion about your favorite songs/albums/artists?

And yeah I talk about my favourite music all the time, maybe even too much, it seems that music as a whole is less and less appreciated with time, which is a shame, but it is what it is.

Do you spend time searching for music?

Yes. But these days Spotify's suggestions at the bottom of my personal playlists do do a lot of the work for me. However I also find lots of artists through word of mouth from the people around me, music featured in other media and through artist collabs.

TL;DR is music art or content to you?

Art, no question about it.