I see I’ve found a another person who actually listens to everything. I drive a tow truck so sometimes I get too far away for my Bluetooth FM adapter and have to go with radio, who whoever I’m towing has a preference on what to listen to so that as well as just looking for new music gets me some good exposure, especially since growing up I had rap, country, pop, grunge, rock (and all sub genres such as metal and grunge for simplicity) so I’ve never been one to just shy away from music. I’ve had a few instances where I didn’t know of some new artist and me nephew (who’s 17) shows me absolutely awe struck I hadn’t heard of whoever it is

I envy you for having never heard it. The best isn’t bad but the lyrics and demeanor of the whole song makes it impossible for me to gather anything really from it. It’s like reaching for your whiskey but getting room temp water. As far as pop music with some meaning and heart behind it, if you feel like exploring and haven’t listened to him post Malone is pretty good. Lots of pain and heartbreak in his music, even in his happier songs I hear a bit of sadness but that’s why he’s my favorite pop artist

It’s such a beautiful complex song, but also simple enough to be background while driving or something. And I do agree on the whiskey saying, it’s all personal preference and the beauty is that kinda thing means there’s really no such thing as “bad music”, even if all a song does is make you smile cause of the groove it’s a good song. Just not Gucci gang, that song is straight butthole juice

I agree, kinda like a Mountain View can be gorgeous, unless your lost and don’t know what mountain you’re looking at. Beauty can also be horror, it’s just so much more fluid to me in music

I’ve heard of it before, I definitely agree and I could go on and on about different songs where I find that, an example that comes to mind is hotel California, the artists intended it to be about addiction, but I take it as the bitter sweet things you’re too attached to let go of. Like that one person in all of our lives who’s really no good for us but we keep around because we love them anyway. It’s the beauty of music usually being in metaphors

Another comment above kinda hit on what I’m going to say, but I do believe with any art the meaning is entirely up to the one consuming (in this case listening) to it. To me NIN is about the struggle of the depression and living a lifestyle that’s ultimately self destructive but doing it out of being lost. So the guy who’s out at parties and doing drugs and getting laid, but deep down has a passion he just hasn’t found but knows it’s there. JC is more accepting life as it is even up to the end. Both are ultimately about being human and having all these complex feelings. But then we go to Chop Suey by System of a Down, to the artists it’s about drug addiction, to me it’s about the disorganized chaos that is life, then again their style kinda gets that from me with most of there songs at least to an extent. All music interpretation is just opinion and that’s what’s beautiful about it. We can listen to the same song but get different messages and we’re all right