You know, it's really weird for me to listen to music over headphones. I know that I used to do it, back when I lived at home and had these headphones with a cord that stretched clear across my room and had this little volume control knob on them, so that I could lay in bed and listen to my music without bothering my parents.
But, since then, I've gotten used to having my music fill my space. And I interact with music. I'm singing along. I'm harmonising. I'm chair-dancing (badly). Frankly, I'm embarrassing. (Ask anyone who's shared a car with me.) In fact, it's frequently difficult for music to be a casual background thing for me; frequently, when I'm sharing a car and if I am planning on talking, I shut off the music. I just can't divide my attention like that.
And so now I'm sitting, plugged in to this new iPod. And it's weird to me. I can't sing along without sounding like a complete crazy person. My bad dancing has no context.
And it's difficult for me to listen to enjoyable music without singing and dancing.
Well, maybe this will keep me from being like 70% of the university population, plugged into music and hostile toward outside contact. (Of course, right now I'm saying "Maybe this just means that I won't listen to my iPod while I'm in public." But I also claimed that I wouldn't be That Person Who Talks On Her Cellphone While Walking. And that didn't last long.)
2 comments:
I totally understand how you feel. In fact, the only reason I requested an MP3 player for xmas last year was so that I could listen to NPR on the bus to school (mine has FM radio). It took a while to get used to the whole headset thing and it still feels weird when I'm walking around with head sets in, as though I'm unnaturally separated from the rest of the world.
You are so going to close your eyes and sing your heart out in public one of these days.
You know it. We know it. 'Nough said.
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