Music used to be something in which we invested ourselves--monetarily, emotionally, physically. I remember pulling 'Tragic Kingdom' off the shelf and hoping the rest of the songs didn't suck. I had heard the single, "Spiderwebs". I had to have the CD, if only to play that one song on repeat. I ended up falling in love with the album. But only because I put work into it. Not every song spoke to me immediately, but I didn't get lazy and stick to what I knew.
This experience wasn't unique to that album, to that artist -- this experience wasn't unique to me. This used to be how we listened to music. Today we don't give any song--or album, or person--longer than 15 seconds to win us over.
Perhaps we could listen a little more like we used to.
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