One badass Challenger pic...

[Ponch ®]

 I'm open to anything but even if like the lyric or melody, a 20 year old black man from LA is not writing music for or about my life experience as a middle aged white guy in the rural midwest.  And THAT is normal and natural for us all.

is it? I have nothing in common with a middle aged guy from Arkansas who grew up in the post-Depression era, but Johnny Cash is one of my favorites. The Rolling Stones had nothing in common with 50 year old black bluesmen from Chicago and the Deep South, and we know how that turned out. Im always open to stuff too...I may or may not get it, but if it's a good tune and I can see some sort of artistic merit (not that Im some type of critic), Ill give it a shot and won't automatically put it down because it belongs to a genre I am not all that familiar with in the first place.  

I'm not saying you're one of those guys, but there are quite a few of those here *cough* Cooter *cough*.

[JB400]

And Cooters' response is........

[Ghoste]

Oh I fully agree with all of that Ponch.  What I was trying to say there was that it wasn't being written for or about my "comfort zone" so if I don't get it, thats okay.  BUT I should be open to any art form first because I still might like it.  I might not get but I might like, and best of all, I might like it AND get it.
I think we are saying exactly the same thing to each other in a somewhat different way. 

[JB400]

Open your mind.  You might be surprised what goes in or comes out