I don't consider myself overly maleable when I'm in a relationship (I've been called, on occasion, "contrarian" by the men who date me) but one thing that tends to morph extremely easily for me is music: Maybe that's because in my experience, men seem more focused on having music playing all the time, whether they're sleeping or talking or hanging. I'm not always in the mood for it. Which means that if I'm going to be constantly exposed to someone's music, I'd rather adopt it whole heartedly. That's why I associate certain musical phases of my life with certain men: There was the Bella Fleck and the Flecktones phase (though I admit, I didn't get into them very deeply), the Shawn Colvin phase, the Jonathan Schwartz (of NPR) phase, the Baba Maal phase and now....I guess we'll soon see. Tonight, though, I downloaded four or five Miriam Makeba songs--she died this week so I heard her on the radio several times and thought: Why aren't I listening to THIS?
Here's another question about men, women and music: Do you think there is such a thing as "chick music" and "guy music" just like chick flicks and guy flicks? I always thought there was until, recently, I met a man who likes many, many, many of the same artists that I do: you know, the female ones who sing ballads about love, many from the 80s. Is it possible to be a metrosexual male in terms of music? What do you all think?
Ciao--
Paola
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