People are weird. For some reason, we try so desperately to be relevant or cool.
The other day I watched a video where someone went around Coachella asking people what they thought about bands that didn't exist, and there were dozens of people spewing bullshit about bands they pretended to know about.
I laughed pretty hard at this video, ridiculing these people who were clearly trying way too hard to project their coolness by knowing lesser known music.
And yet today my own girlfriend sent me a song I had not heard before, asking if I had listened to it before. For some reason, I fought a huge urge to say lie and say that I had. Such a large urge in fact that I almost did. And now I am sitting here trying to rationalize why the fuck I would lie to my girlfriend over something so trivial. Why must I, too, project that I am some all-knowing music guru who knows every good song out there? It's such a shithead thing to do, and I wish I could understand. I hate people that do that stuff, and here I am doing the same damn thing.
Why is this a thing? That's what I really don't get. Is it human nature? Or just some pathetic stunt to attempt to remain relevant.
I don't know.
I also don't know what else to write here, so I guess that's it.
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