{"id":5704,"date":"2017-06-13T18:35:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T01:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2017-06-13T18:35:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T01:35:46","slug":"guilty-pleasure-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5704","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Pleasure of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not afraid to admit.  I am listening to some TSwift right now.  Because it just landed on Spotify!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/5OndtwLGA9O6XHFcGm2H7r\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s catchy.  Some lyrics ring true.  (Although I know that it&#8217;s not all written by her.) <\/p>\n<p>For years, especially in my identity-forming era of my teens and twenties, I would declare to the world that my favorite music was the <i>music nobody knew<\/i>.  I could rattle off a whole list of bands that were obscure.  But the fact was I didn&#8217;t really enjoy their songs.  Sure, I would have them loop in my endless playlist in an effort to make myself like it.<\/p>\n<p>But it didn&#8217;t have the same pleasure that I had with certain pop songs.  The kind of songs that would make me hop and dance.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until my mid=twenties when I finally admitted to myself that pop music was my love.  And even just now to admit that Taylor Swift could be someone that I listened to.  (There&#8217;s a story of a friend who did some website development work for her and it was intense, because there were so many demands.)  It frustrates me that I waited so long.  I love music, but I had purposefully denied myself of music that I loved.  (Not to mention waste money at concerts of bands that&#8230;I didn&#8217;t love, but bands that I loved because it matched the hipster identity I wanted to support.)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this brand of an empowered woman\u00e2\u20ac\u201done who doesn&#8217;t take any crap, an ambitious woman who works hard to get what she wants, and more.  At its core, it&#8217;s feminist.  There&#8217;s a stigma.<\/p>\n<p>But right now, I sit in my office chair, play from my free spotify account, and listen to that catchy pop music pour through my speakers.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not afraid to admit. I am listening to some TSwift right now. Because it just landed on Spotify! Because it&#8217;s catchy. Some lyrics ring true. (Although I know that it&#8217;s not all written by her.) For years, especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=5704\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5705,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/5705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}