What’s a lazy music person (LMP)? One who loves music, but doesn’t actively seek out new music and hardly ever changes what he or she is currently listening to.
The top 5 signs that you may be a lazy music person:
- If you have 2 or more unused iTunes gift cards at any point in time. And you’re a chronic LMP if they are over a year old.
- If you ever stood in a store transfixed at hearing a new musical sound over some cheesy loudspeakers and then ended up racing to the nearest cashier to say “what CD is that playing now?”
- If you know every song on your iPod by heart and mentally begin the start of a song in the queue – whether by artist or alpha sequence – before the previous song ends.
- If you stare at your unused iTunes gift cards and try to talk yourself into shopping on the iTunes store: THE site-from-usability-hell (Non-LMPs don’t think twice about the crappy user experience on this site.)
- If you get regular emails from the iTunes store telling you that you have unused iTunes cash sitting in their store.
I’m a lazy music person and so is my husband – this is probably one of our least favorite common denominators.
Anyone who knows me would never guess that I’m an LMP because I love music. People I’ve danced with and gone to concerts with and just hung out with have seen me in the music ZONE. My friends who’ve driven with me in my car have also seen me in the zone, much to their chagrin, as I sang at the top of my lungs to the songs on the radio. So, knowing all this, how can I still be an LMP?
Well, I’m not sure if it’s genetic or what…but here are some real-life examples of how a lazy music person operates and may eventually end up embracing new music:
- MUSIC IS LITERALLY HANDED TO YOU
Friend creates a cool mix CD called, “Girls Night Out” and hands it out at a Bachelorette Party.
RESULT: Easy transfer of different music – I wore out the CD because I finally had something new to listen to (and the mix also featured some “classics!”).
- NEW MUSIC IS ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERED
Same friend (who happens to be a Non-LMP) tells me that if I want to get better support from the IT Department, then I need to approach (a Non-LMP) fellow colleague and mention how cool Depeche Mode’s latest album is.
RESULT: (In addition to getting the IT support), I realized I hadn’t listened to Depeche in a bazillion years and checked out their new album online – saw there was a Touring the Angel concert in town and went…turned out to be one of the top 3 concerts I ever attended (and I’ve been to…hmmm…way more than you can imagine). The next time I was “passing by” a music store, I went in and bought Depeche’s CD.
- NEW MUSIC IS WITHIN REACH “WHILE” YOU ARE LISTENING TO IT
I walk into a small boutique in Chile and hear the most amazing music…my eyes get moist (for some reason, my eyes often get moist whenever I hear awesome music)…the young lady at the cash register sees la loca norteamericana getting misty while looking up at the speakers. I say in stilted Spanish, “Who am I listening to?” Young lady: “Myriam Hernandez.” I say, “Cuento cuesta, por favor?”
RESULT: I paid $28 USD for a used CD (it was the young lady’s personal CD). SECRET: I probably would have paid $40. Because it was there and it was available and I loved it. And because I’m an LMP.
Are you a lazy music person? Do you have an LMP story or comment to share? Tell me…what do you think the size of the LMP market really is??? If Starbucks can sell 4 million music CDs per year – not bad considering coffee is their core business – then I’m thinking there are many more LMPs out there than care to admit it.
At least the next time I get the courage up to visit the iTunes store, I won’t feel so alone.
FOR YOUR READING PLEASURE:
- Music lovers increasingly taking vinyl for a spin
- Not music to the ears (featuring the Top 10 list of songs to shop to)
- Summer’s beautiful melodies by Steve Whysall of the Vancouver Sun – a fellow LMP?
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