Is music just background to you?

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Excluding live gigs of course - but do you ever treat music like a good book or show and just listen or do you have it in but it’s background to other hobbies, chores, entertaining etc?

I don’t think DP ever listens to music for the sake of listening to it whilst I sometimes like to lie on the sofa or bed and just enjoy. Is that a lost thing with the need to always be on the go?

Not sure about a lost thing. It isn't a thing I have ever done.
I listen to music when I drive, when I cook, sometimes when I work, and so forth.
I have never just lay down and listened, whilst doing nothing else.

That said, I never "just" watch TV without having something to do with my hands too - on my laptop, or knitting or playing patience or something.

Definitely. I don't really like music, it shuffles my thinking up too much.

Music affects me too much. It messes with my emotions. I have BPD, so that is probably a big factor.

I like to have music on in the car or if im doing housework, but sometimes i do like to just listen to an album for the sake of it too, but id be singing along or dancing

I find it so odd that anyone can just 'listen' to music. My dad does that, just stands stands there with the radio playing, and gets upset if anyone talks. Nope, I really don't get that!

I do t think they make albums like they used to tbh.

They make an album with like 20 songs on, 3 good ones for release and spread on Spotify or wherever and the rest of them not so good.

Albums like The Wall by Pink Floyd that tell a story and narrative from beginning to end have been replaced. It's all about playlists and having 1000 random songs by random people.

For months or even years at a time, music isn’t important to me, and then something switches in my head and it becomes consumingly important, and I go to to hear a lot of it live and listen constantly. I’m in a music period at the moment, and have been to an opera, a string quartet, and five gigs in the past two weeks, as well as listening to a lot going about my day, discovering new bands and artists. It’s pretty much never just background noise, though. If I’m listening, I’m listening.

This. I also have BPD

Music makes me feel too much or causes a lot of nostalgia so I avoid it most of the time. However I when I was younger I would listen to it for pleasure.

Yep. I listen for background, but sometimes I put music on just to listen. If it's the right piece and I'm in the right mood, I get wave after wave of head-to-toe goose-pimply frissons, sometimes ending up with tears rolling uncontrollably down my face. That's fun to try and keep non-disruptive at a concert…