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From Def Leppard to Just Def,
One Fan's Musical Tastes Evolve
The evolutionary chart of my musi
cal tastes spans more than 10
years, from Poison to Dead Prez.
Basically, I’ve evolved from the
depths of extreme cheese in the glam
metal world to the super cool world of
hip hop, with varying levels of dorkiness
in between.
My first concert was in the fourth
grade, when my Dad took me to the
Charlotte Coliseum for Def Leppard
with guests Queensryche and Tesla.
I felt cool being the only 9-year-old
there on a school night, sporting my
ripped stone washed jeans and 5-inch tall
bangs. I felt even cooler after my Dad
bought me a concert T-shirt, which I put
on over my clothes and later wore as a
nightgown until seventh grade.
I can assure you my musical tastes
have changed drastically since then.
Music circumvents itself, so admit
that at least once in your life you’ve sold
out to whatever’s hot on the music
charts and jumped on the musical band
wagon.
I’ve listened to a variety of musical
genres except country, which I don’t
think I’m at a loss for avoiding.
For example, from fourth through
eighth grade, I listened to a lot of heavy
and glam metal, for which I still have a
soft spot in my heart.
My room housed an altar to the godly
Sebastian Bach, a Bret Michaels corner,
a Modey Crue calendar and a door-size
Guns N’ Roses poster. Add to that a case
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SHINDY CHEN
MY ESPN TOLD ME SO
with a guitar pick caught at the Pantera
concert and a bunch of Slayer memora
bilia. My room was a lame display of an
obsessive teenybopper who watched
way too much “Headbanger’s Ball.”
Eighth grade rolled around and with
it came grunge music, which I absolute
ly ate up. I wore flannel, replaced Bret
Michaels with Eddie Vedder, smacked a
Chris Cornell poster up and attended
Lollapalooza, where I crowd-surfed and
moshed during other favorite bands-of
the-moment Alice in Chains and
Primus.
After grunge’s death and the disori
entation it brought to music, combined
with the disillusionment of being a high
school teenager, my lost self took refuge
in The Cure. This yearlong phase
included a trip to Atlanta for the concert
my sophomore year of high school and
a collection of 12 Cure CDs, which I will
neither consider selling nor ever reli
giously listen to again.
For the remainder of high school, 1
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listened to hard-core/straight-edge
music and went to hundreds of shows,
realizing I didn’t always agree with the
music’s lyrics or lifestyle despite loving
the sound. Then I got into hip hop and
techno music and went to parties (raves)
with my friends, who’d already been
going throughout high school.
This lasted until the end of my col
lege freshman year, when I was broke
from parties and tired of driving to other
cities for all-night, drug-induced dance
festivities.
Rap/hip hop is the only music that
makes sense to me these days, and I
regret not introducing myself to it back
when I let metal rule, though License to
111 was one of my first tapes (Madonna’s
True Blue was another). The lyrics, the
beats... you get hooked no matter how
raw the underground sound or flashy
the mainstream club hits. Like every
musical genre, not all of it is good, but
within it you embrace certain artists, as
well as the scene and culture associated
with it all.
Times change, music changes. I write
hip-hop reviews now; I may still be
doing so five years from now, but not
until after I’ve re-emerged as a leather
wearing, hair-teased rock groupie.
Right?
By the way, has anyone heard the
new Pantera?
Shindy Chen can be reached at
shindy@email.unc.edu.
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The American public, with a twisted
sense of what constitutes good music,
has put ’N Sync in the record books this
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Wall of Sound reports that the group
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lion copies of its long-awaited album,
No Strings Attached, its first week on the
shelves. On the album’s debut date,
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than 1.1 million copies of the record.
For those who just can’t get enough
of the shiny quintet, the band comes to
Raleigh’s Entertainment and Sports
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Question Reality
“The X-Files” fans don’t have to
question reality any longer because the
truth is finally out there. Last week,
David Duchovny announced that he
will leave Fox’s “The X-Files” after this
season, the show’s seventh.
According to Jam! Showbiz news,
Duchovny will leave with no hard feel
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Continuing his long-running fight to
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In 1996 Harrelson planted four
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and the adoration will continue this
spring at the National Baseball Hall of
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According to Jam! Showbiz, an
exhibit showing original strips, artwork
and artifacts dealing with the comic strip
will open May 20 and run through the
end of 2000. Of “Peanuts” creator
Charles Shultz’s 18,000 strips, nearly 10
percent dealt with baseball. Looks like
peanuts will continue to be a mainstay
of the American baseball tradition.
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