Your IRL Friends and Their Musical Preferences

So...what are some bands your homies or work buddies like (but you don't) but if they invited you to go to a concert with, you would - street cred be damned?

For me, it's metal. I don't go to metal shows with my music friends, but when I'm back home and someone asked me to go with them to a metal show I would.

Or, like, work friends. This one work friend asked me to see Peter Gabriel with her, which I would gladly have done. I was broke and felt so bad about it, because I was afraid she thought it was because I was too goth or that I was judging her.

Do you ever just flip the bird at your more cynical peeps because you want to be entertained?

Cynicism doesn't seem to play a part in anyone's decision making anymore. I'd be surprised if I met someone in 2022 that gave me a hard time about certain types of shows/artists not clique-approved unless it was Kid Rock or something shitty beyond taste preference.

I agree, people tend much more chill these days, but I'm middle-aged and some of my acquaintances are still a bit crabby, arthritis and aging / deceased parents and all.

In spite of those things, I meant.

I still feel bad about the Peter Gabriel thing to this day, partly because I hadn't forgiven stuff like "In Your Eyes".

if someone invited me to like, a Taylor Swiftian mega pop show, I would go. just because I don't get to see things of such spectacle often.