she makes me so unsure of myself

40. are there any bands/artists you judge others for listening to?

well not reallyyyyyyyyyyyyy mostly because i'm very insecure about my own taste and don't feel like i'm in a position to judge anyone ......... idk i judged people for listening to and posting about those drake albums a couple months ago. i guess i do judge people who listen to gracie abrams or whatever taylor swift knockoff is of the moment but i also once let a gay guy at a party explain to me for like thirty minutes why addison rae is secretly a misunderstood genius and i couldn't begrudge him that. i think music is so subjective you know.

43. do you collect vinyl, CDs, cassettes, etc?

i don't *collect* CDs but i do buy them and they are my preferred physical medium mostly because they're just so easy. i have a small list of artists from whom i'll buy new CDs mostly because i want to monetarily support them, but i do 99.99% of my listening on spotify. i buy used CDs when i come across something good, but i like crate digging more than i like actually buying anything lol. i really like the aesthetics of vinyl records but i decided i don’t need that particular money sink, although i am about to move in with people who own a record player, which is exciting. i haven't used cassettes since my father got rid of his like 1994 honda civic that exclusively had a cassette player and nothing else

62. are there any pieces of music/bands/artists you wish you could get into, but you just don't click with them?

boygenius lol everybody loves boygenius and i never really got into them or any of their solo work. not for lack of trying! (it was so hard being a high school girl in 2019 who didn't give a fuck about phoebe bridgers OR billie eilish.) i like their snl performance of satanist i think that rocks.

anddd specifically the album berlin by lou reed which i listened to for the first time while i was doing this thing where i made myself journal reactions to the albums i was listening to and what i wrote about berlin was, "i genuinely don't know why i listen to so much music by men who beat their wives." not because that album is like i used to beat my wife and i feel awesome about it hell yeah but just like, you know. it makes me feel not good, possibly in the intended fashion, or possibly because i'm just too sensitive. i don't go back to it

97. what musician has had the most impact on you?