Personal Narrative: Rap Music

Speaking from my experiences, I can tell you that I appreciate many genres of music. For example, I adore rock music; rock is my favorite music because of its complex rhythm, chromatic elements, and tonal nuances. Since most of country music has evolved into a rock music hybrid, I also take pleasure in listening to it. The blues are intoxicating to me as I let go of any problems that I may have. I find listening to the tonic triad of jazz to be soothing; no other music can mimic jazz’s harmonic implications. Classical music is more emotionally oriented than sound oriented for me, I experience joy, excitement, passion, vigor, etc., when I listen to different classical pieces. When I want to listen mindlessly to music, I select pop music,
which for me is a softened version of rock music. A dissimilar sound that deeply relaxes me is Mongolian throat singing; it seems so simple, and yet it is so complex. In all other forms of music, a person can sing only one note at a time; in throat music, one person sings two notes simultaneously. As I relax to the alluring tonality of throat music, I can hear the polyphonic overtones sung by one person singing; its relaxation effect is unlike any other form of music.
Although, I obviously relish many different genres of music, I also have distaste for some forms of music.
For example, I am disinclined to listen to rap music. From listening to a few rap songs, I can see that many of the rap music artists are extremely talented; however, in rap music I do not hear any of the sound nuances, tonic implications or creativity of the music that I like. The background beat of every rap song sounds the same to me; it seems like the rap music artist is sacrificing rhythmic variation in order to keep the vocal rhyme flowing. However, my aversion towards gospel music may be due to the fact that I am not religious, which makes me unable to relate to the words in gospel
music.
I like certain music genres because I like how that music sounds.
In the same way, I dislike certain music genres because I do not like how those types of music sound. I do not like any type of music simply because it does not sound like music that I dislike; I have reasons why I relish a particular type of music. Those reasons become the yardstick that I use to judge all music; my dislikes are the music that does not have those important attributes, this is they do not sound like the music I appreciate. Based upon my experiences, Mr. Wilson was wrong when he quoted Valéry to say that the music one likes is not fashioned from the music that one dislikes. That is backwards, as my experiences have shown, the music that one dislikes is fashioned from being different than the music one
likes.