Fight the Fight. MDNA

SOME people believe that the music you listen to is in some measure a reflection of who you are as a person.
I'm sure there is something in that, to a certain extent, but what this doesn't really take into account is how music changes over time and how our tastes can both develop and stagnate, and our tendency to associate music with certain times and events in our lives which then renders our preferences non scientific in nature. 
Music afficionados often feel the need to bring down others for their tastes and preferences.  It's a boring snobbery that to me is more reflective of personality than the music someone listens to.  Admit it, you all know someone like  that, that hangs it on you for your choices.  I am surrounded by them.  It's insecurity on these people's part that they feel the need to somehow demonstrate that they are more sophisticated or evolved than you.  Oxymoron(s).
As a pop lover, I am subject to the kind of conversations that teenagers have ad nauseum, because there is an inbuilt judgment being made that I somehow should have evolved beyond my tastes.  Just for the record, my itunes collection is pop heavy, but to dismiss my tastes as being surface dance pop would be inaccurate and limited.  I know more about music than a lot of the people who criticise my tastes do.  But I don't suffer from the same kind of insecurity that makes me feel like I need to defend myself in the face of their stupidity.  The idea that I am merely a Kylie/Madonna boy is the cross I have to wear for other people's narrow minds and assumptions.
Frankly, to the people with this flawed view; I Don't Give A F*ck.
Case in point; I refuse to apologise for my love of Madonna's music. 
I'm a super fan.  People, this is a serious long term relationship that I have been in that has outlasted every non familial relationship I have had.  I'm taking it back to 1984 and it has been immeasurably more rewarding than some of the interactions that I have had in the ensuing years.  Let's face it, music makes life far more tolerable than people do.

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