My Attitude to Music.

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I’d describe my attitude to music as it’s my “main drug”. It’s very hard to explain how it was formed and what did I actually was influenced by. But let’s try it by exclusion. First of all I wasn’t influenced by people as there were no people around me who were keen on rock music and, to be honest, even on music itself. Neither my parents and relatives nor my close friends and classmates listened to rock. Usually, everyone has at least one such person but it happened so that i didn’t have any at those times. So it’s not a social or an observational learning. Also it wasn’t a social comparison as I simply didn’t have anyone to compare with. I started listening to rock (and all its subdivisions like indie, nu-metal and so on) approximately 5-6 years ago. Of course I was never somehow “rewarded” for listening to such kind of music. In fact nobody cared, neither my family, nor me friends as they simply weren’t interested in it. So it’s not about an operational conditioning explanation. What is more I don’t remember any associations with rock music as it was simply absent from my life till some moment, so there were no special memories or something. So classical conditioning is also out. Well, here’s explanation. Of course I liked Linkin Park (alternative rock), I think almost everyone liked them even if this someone doesn’t listen to rock at all. Linkin Park is a separate (usually teenage) epoch in life of almost any teen of my age I guess. But still I didn’t listen to rock at those times. More or less “thoughtful listening” started from more or less “soft music”, from Britpop, specifically from Coldplay group. I’ve heard their song called “Clocks” somewhere I don’t know where and fell in love with it. I didn’t know how this song was called, so I memorized some words from it while listening and then searched for it and finally found. Then I started to

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