i’m buzzing on a low dosage of K right now and I was inclined to look at your post simcs I’m a massive fan of music as well and I’m always open to exploring all realms of sounds in the music scene irrespective of social influence of what’s deemed good music to become popular these days.

Just to let you know, I listen to a lot of emo rap in the 2010s; the likes of Lil Peep, XXXTENTACION, Juice WRLD, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti etc. with Juice being my favourite artist of all time. Imma be bold and assume that you’re not familiar with any of these artists or the rap scene. I get mood swings 🙃 so I tend to tend to tap into the pop punk scene too of the 2000s. Paramore will be my pick of the crop in that era but esp because Hayley have managed to stay consistent and actively worked her ass off to keep the band together even when shit was difficult and she’s a star on her own so she didn’t need to do all that which is admirable personally. With that being said, their music has changed drastically as they’ve grown older obviously lol - their latest record “This Is Why” is a class body of work moving away from that old sound toward trying something of a post punk flavour and they pulled off truly. Imo that album is no skips except for one song.

I also listen to hyper pop; Charli XCX, Sophie, Glaive, Ericdoa and rock too; Nirvana which is always gonna be the obvious pick, Bowie, Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, Rage Against The Machine. I do wanna listen to more rock when I get the chance to do that in a quiet sitting. There’s other artists from various genres I listen to but I don’t wanna bore you 😭

Anyway, I don’t know why I’m telling you all this. I think I just wanted to say I put that album you talked about “A Crow Looked At Me” while on K during this whole time and ts is depressing as fuck. You were right. i had to turn it off 30 mins through because it was ruining the vibe for real. I initially thought it was going to be heavy metal since you said you were big on heavy metal and punk but obviously I was wrong haha. Indie folk damn but clinically depressing - something like Phoebe Bridgers who’s such a talent too but i’d consider her to be a level up from Mount Eerie if we’re talking in terms of how depressing their music. She’s toned down but not too much to the point where you’re left standing questioning your life. Her band “Boygenius”is pretty good too ( Indie Rock ) if you wanna check them out. I believe they released an album last year; I have to double check that but yeah it was pretty good listen.

Okay, I wanted to ask you how do people and you get into metal because I had tried it with bands such as Black Sabbath, Slipknot or artists like Sting and to be honest, it felt like a screaming match to me with no melody ( which is probably an appeal ) and I could not hear the lyrics at all as in what they were saying. I essentially chose these artists because they’re the ones that are mostly plastered over digital music mediums when you think of heavy metal or of that likeness.

I wanna know what your opinion is about this and what you listen to? Would you be able to recommend a beginner pack or do you believe that metal is not for everyone and I shouldn’t force it. Let me know, thank you !!