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You seem to be in the similar situation I was in all of last year. I've been an adamant Trance lover since 1999. However, all of 2003 saw my love affair with Trance wither away as I began to focus my listening energy on rock, hip-hop, and R&B; genres, which prior to 1999, dominated my Winamp play lists. I don’t know what caused my interest in Trance to fade: I was either unimpressed with the current Trance being produced, some rock or hip-hip group re-sparked my interest in other genres, maybe my move away from college (I graduated last year) had something to do with it, or, more likely, a combination of many things caused it to fade.
But back in December my interest in Trance came back like a boomerang does to its thrower. As the year died down I found myself very unimpressed by what I was listening to and found myself missing the genre that pretty much ruled my collegiate life, and was amazed to see how much better the music had gotten when I returned.
I like to compare this phase in my life to that of breaking up and returning to an old girlfriend. You date a girl for two, three years, after a while you start to wonder if you could do better and start to get worried because you’ve been with her for so long that she expects total commitment, so you break up with her to regain you freedom and give yourself the opportunity to find someone better. After a while of dating, you notice how uninteresting these one-note, cookie-cutter chicks are, become extremely bored and unnerved by the current single life you lead, and finally decide to rekindle the love you had with the girl that has always understood you.
So, just keep doing exactly what you are doing – listening to other genres and forget about Trance for a while. There’s probably a good reason you’re listening to them anyways. Eventually, you’ll soon find that whatever you’re listening to will quickly seem banal, not getting any better (changes in rock and hip-hop take years to happen, the revolutionary changes may even take decades). Thus having realized that fact, I couldn’t wait to return to Trance to find that, not only did it still evoke the same emotions in me that it so effectively used to, it had changed for the better.
Last edited by Nautilus on Mar-03-2004 at 06:30
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