Now that Mumford & Sons are getting radio play, my youngest sister and mother are all about them. My mom was listening to that song on the radio, and she was like, "I love that part where they play the banjo. They're so awesome." And I'd have let it go, had she not been all, "I downloaded their first album, and it's even better than this new one."
I was like, "Wait. What? When I tried to play that in the car, you told me to turn off my stupid hippie music, and then I switched it to your (now) favorite song, The Cave, and you said that they were just trying to be deep and it wasn't good music, would never appeal to a wide audience. THEN you said, 'Oh, yeah, they're so cool because they're not country and they're playing a banjo. Turn it off.'"
And she was like, "You never played this."
But I know I did, for a fact. Because I talked with my friends about it after the fact, about how she completely dismissed it. I remember it vividly. Mumford & Sons are far from being my favorite band, but I like them.
I just think it's sickening that they play them on the radio, and suddenly people are on the bandwagon. Her prior dismissal and disgust with a song she now "loves" and sees as musical brilliance just proves that.
I'm not really angry, just irritated. Like what you like; don't worry about whether or not it's on the radio. Ugh.
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