Have you ever successfully converted someone you know into liking the same music as you listen to?
Or, has someone ever converted you into listening to their favorite music?
2 years ago, I had a cousin who liked Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Avenged Sevenfold and stuff like that. After that, I got him started on bands like Slayer, Testament, Suicidal Tendencies, Cannibal Corpse and Tool. Now he is a hardcore metal head.
Currently, I am working to change my girlfriend's opinion on metal
2008-03-20T17:21:07Z
I know this guy who was also really big into hip hop, he basically stopped listening to rap because he can't stand listening to stuff like Soulja Boy. He recently has started listening to Black Sabbath, Lamb of God, Tool, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin mostly because me and a couple of other co-workers seemed to listen to that music while working
Tattooed White Trash2008-03-20T18:14:23Z
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My 19 year old little sister. But that was easy because she's my little sister, and she'd do just about anything to be like me.
She used to listen to a lot of emo crap... I simply stole her iPod one day and added some songs from my library on to it, without deleting her crap... well eventually she deleted all her crap herself, and came back asking for more of my music.
I'm proud of her, I'm proud of myself. One less emo brat in the world.
I wouldn't say converted really. But one of my best friends and the guitarist for our band now didn't know much at all about punk or pre-punk when I met him. He was a pretty big metal head, still is to be fair, but he had a hard time appreciating things that weren't as intricate and fast and technical as Slayer or Megadeth or Sepaltura, but over time since music is a big part of both our lives we exposed each other to our own musical tastes. And since then he's really learned that a few well placed chords or a simple but catchy progression is worth all the skill in the world. Although he still studies up on everything and is ridiculously good at guitar of any genre, the music he writes himself is almost always a cool riff or progression and his CD collection has a pretty large punk element to it.
And in tunr I've taken a liking to some of his metal, although I still can't stand anything with ugly gruff vocals, like Sepultura or that sort of thing. I have however taken a strange liking to the CD Reign In Blood by Slayer, don't know why.
it's not a good Idea for example I'm an extreme metal maniac meaning I listen to real metal bands like slayer, Iron Maiden, Iced Earth, Dark angel, and I know a good buddy of mine who's into what seems to be true rap and hip hop, and its' kind of a very hard road to take. I mean I'll listen to some rap and like it and my friend will think some of the metal songs I listen to are kick A$$ but, I guess it may be pride, plus it's just musical taste, The only thing we can agree on is a good looking girl nice round booty right there one is always a winner.
Not very successfully, my sister loves Broadway theater music ( I know) and I have tried to get her to listen to metal, so far she's likes some hard rock and classic rock but metal, not so much. I've also tried with my friends but unsuccessfully. At one time I thought I had converted my cousin to metal she started listening to Slayer, Arch Enemy and Within Temptation but then out of the blue went to a Jonas Brothers concert! I lost all hope in her lol
Not totally sure if this counts, but I got my daughter into rock. When she was 3 or 4 she could identify Pearl Jam, U2, Red Hot Chillie Peppers, Creed etc on the radio. My freinds always got a kick out of it! She is 11 now and still likes some of what I listen too. She loves the White Stripes CDs 'cause I have them in the cd changer in the car.