re: Are music fans blinded by their fandom?

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I think more people are blinded by their nostalgia for music that they liked when they were an adolescent through college. But I have no way of proving that, but can only say based on posts on here and from people that I know IRL.

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I think this is very true, but that also makes a lot of sense, as music defines our high school tribe more than almost anything else. It's personal in a way other artforms aren't, and people use it to form their identity. Now, you grow up and you move past a lot of those cultural identifiers, but its still there, as part of the foundation you've built upon. Some of it is inescapable and unconscious.

As they say in High Fidelity, it's not what you're like, it's what you like.