The original post: /r/music by /u/jhans75 on 2024-10-11 19:46:21.

Listen, I love music, I really do. I love the way songs can make me feel and all that, it’s an incredible feeling. I also love discovering new music, it’s quite fun and the feeling you get when you come across a banger is a great feeling, it really is. Tell me this, though…

Why do I struggle to listen to albums, even if it’s an album that I want to try and listen to? I only like two artists’ discographies. Well, the majority of their discographies, and even then I struggle to listen to their albums in full.

When I discover a new song that I like, I’ll often go skim through the rest of the album that the song is on and/or the rest of the artist’s discography (by skim I mean use Spotify’s reel feature) and it’s useful but also annoying as I’m therefore not listening properly.

Also, when I do try and listen to an album I find it hard to tell whether I’m actually liking the song or not because quite a lot of the time I’m just sitting there not feeling much. Like, it’s certainly listenable and certainly not bad because I know when I really do not like a song, but apart from that I don’t know, and that’s when I also get the urge to skip the song. I also get kinda bored after listening to a few songs. This makes discovering new music and being able to enjoy it a bit difficult. I don’t want to be like this though as I enjoy music, it is a real interest of mine, and I want to further that interest in many different ways.

If anyone knows why I’m like this, has any advice or can relate (I hope others are in this situation so I don’t feel as bad haha), please let me know :)