The importance of opening your mind to other music genres than what you're used to a thread:

Believe it or not, I was the kind of person for a while to only listen to rock/alternative and I would shit on other genres saying it wasn't "real music." The issue with this is that+

when your mind is closed like this, you miss out on so many things. So I want to ask you: what is "real music" to you?

If your answer is very limited and excludes some genres, this thread is you.

Music is something that changes constantly, it's always evolving. Hence why we can see how much music changed in the last 100 years. It's about experimenting, creating, being creative, wanting to try different things. Ofc, music has rules but in the end: there's no rules.

music transcend rules, it's about what sounds good to you. When you see it that way, you realize how beautiful music is and how amazing it is that we have such a large range of styles/genres for us to listen to.

What I'm trying to say is, you can have your favorite genre, you can have those genres you listen to the most but it's honestly all subjective.

Learn to listen to songs you usually wouldn't listen to, analyse those songs, enjoy them. Expand your taste.

Find the beauty in all those different genres. Let me compare music to wine for sec.

Wine is a taste your acquire right? Eventually you find that one kind you really like and you could stick to it and say all other wines are shit but~ you could also expand your taste

by trying other wines and getting used to the taste until you start loving or at least liking a bigger range of wines. Se thing with music.

Also, when you realize all the hard work that goes into one song, no matter which genre, that's another way of appreciating music

no matter if it's rock/punk/classical/pop/indie/EDM. The process is still interesting and amazing. Understand that music is art. Art the we indeed enjoy a lot, but it's art afterall. There's no wrong way of doing art. At all.