Hora, in blog format

I was driving home from my girlfriend’s the other day, listening to The Stills. I was thinking about how earlier that day we listened to her iPod in the car. Her music, although the same genre (vaguely categorized as “Rock”), is quite different, and I was wondering why I like mine more and she likes hers more. I’ve pointed out to her that her music often sounds like “pub music”, something crazy and fun that would play in the background while you’re getting smashed. She listens to a lot of British bands, and a lot of them are like that, happy, fun, exciting! My preference on the other hand is different, for lack of a better word.

Driving a little further, it suddenly struck me why that is; ever since I was young, I always preferred music with minor harmonies. When I used to play piano, I always liked the more “minor” Classical era music, never really liked anything Baroque, and I loved the Romantic era pieces. My favourite classical music pieces (that I can name) include the second movement from Beethoven’s seventh (A minor) and Mozart’s Requiem (D minor). I obviously never learned to play those on the piano (cause they’re not for piano and plus, I wasn’t good enough), but my favourite piano pieces were also generally in minor keys.

Twelve years later, I still prefer music with minor harmonies. A lot of my favourite bands generally write songs in minor keys. A good example would be System of a Down. A lot of their songs are in minor keys or at least have a lot of minor harmonies between the guitars or vocals or vocals and guitars. The Stills are another example.

My girlfriend on the other hand likes Major harmonies, and that explains why the style of music we listen to is very different even though we may like exactly the same bands! Her favourite songs would sound very different from mine. On a side note, I do like a lot of songs that aren’t in a minor key, there’s just less of them.

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