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Music and the idea of "Guilty Pleasures"

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Let's just start off with a bold statement: there are no such thing as "guilty pleasures".      What I mean to express by this is that there is music that one likes and there is music that one dislikes, and there are no guilty pleasures in the purest form of consuming music. Only when you use listening to music as a personality crutch, can something you might listen to become a guilty pleasure. Because at that point, you become worried enough about revealing that listening habit to others that it becomes alike in how you dress yourself, if you listen to something you actually audibly enjoy, and decide against pursuing it because of personal image, you are not consuming music correctly. (stock images are great, don't @ me. I'm lazy and don't want to create a header.) Preference:      I have been guilty before of hiding aspects of my musical tastes to homogenize my tastes as a "Metalhead" when I was younger, I even contacted spotify to un