25 Songs, 25 Days - Day 10: A Song By Your Favorite Band

You can tell a lot about a person from the kind of music they listen to. As soon as you start to share your musical tastes, interests, and dislikes, people almost immediately start to judge you and question why you choose to listen to certain music. In the modern age of a song a minute, people are constantly trying to be hipsters, the more obscure the better. If your favorite band/artist is someone on the Top 40 you are immediately seen as someone that just follows the crowd. Some people will just choose obscure bands so that they can appear cool, while listening to Maroon 5 and Britney Spears on repeat behind closed doors.

For me it's hard to pick a favorite band. It's like choosing a favorite food, it's impossible to distinguish between different regions, just like with music it's hard to distinguish between genres. Usually my favorite has been hard rock in the past, so I'll go with my favorite band in that genre. Currently one of my favorites is Set it Off, which is a lesser known band, but I first fell in love with their music when I listened to one of their songs and thought I was listening to a new Panic At the Disco song. Since I posted about that group in my last post, you can listen to both and see how similar they sound sometimes. The name of the song is called Duality from the album of the same name, the video showing how often there are two sides to every person, and also serves as a warning to anyone that treats you wrong, you might get the evil side. Sums up how people are often a combination of things and can't be defined by just one characteristic, in other words, don't judge a book by its cover. Just because you listen to Top 40 doesn't make you shallow and listening to obscure bands at the local cafe doesn't make you a hipster. We are a little bit of everything rolled into one.