Unlike my hot headed youth, I now find it really hard to hate music. I'm still just as passionate in my love for the music I love. But I can't get worked up about the rest of it.
Back in my teens, the latest ghastly manufactured pop star or clod hopping US hair metal band would elicit ferocious eruptions of molten hatred from me and I revelled in it. Nowadays I can't be bothered, life's too short.
I think in part this is because I no longer have to listen to too much of anything I don't want to. Back then, the only way to regularly hear new music was via very limited radio options. Which mostly meant wading through a load of stuff that wasn't to my taste in order to hear a few things that were. Such frustration is bound to breed hate. Nowadays we've got all kinds of options and if, for example, you don't like a particular Youtube clip, you can always mouse-click on to another.
I'd also like to think I might have grown up a bit too. Learnt that there are people more deserving of my ire than musicians who happen to make sounds that don't appeal to me (politicians and the like). Although I'm not really sure that this is true.
I'd be really interested to know if other Forumistas have experienced the same emotional shift. Does certain music still get your goat, raise your hackles and send you screaming. Or, like me, have you learnt to block it out and move on.