/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Every time there's a birthday or something, my family drags me to the party. Of course, I just sit in a corner on my laptop listening to music, or read a book or something and trying to drown out the noise.

Sometimes they say they're bored of their music and ask if they can plug in my MP3 player for some new stuff to listen to. I always answer that they wouldn't like my stuff regardless. I feel my taste in music is very bad. I don't really look down on their music, despite how unappealing it is to me. At one point one of my family members ended up actually picking up my MP3 player while I wasn't really paying attention, since I was using my headphones to read my Symphonic Rain.

"Lets see what we have here. Huh, I can't even read most of these titles. Well, I'll just put it on shuffle."

Of course by this point I was hoping he'd just put it down, because I sure as hell don't have the confidence to speak up and tell someone that I don't want them touching my stuff or putting it to play.

Thankfully the only really embarrassing song that played was Rainbow Girl (The Miku Hatsune version), which nobody understood anyway, obviously. The rest were pretty much instrumentals, mostly piano and orchestrated Touhou arrangements. However, after maybe 5 songs they took it off.

"The others said they didn't want to hear it, I'm fine with this music though."

But he was obviously just lying because he said he wouldn't mind my songs beforehand, so it was only natural he'd put up an act that he was okay with it.

Some others came up to me and said they don't like classical stuff, but somehow thought I was pretty mature to be listening to soothing stuff like that and went as far as to call it "actual music."

tl;dr - No, I hate myself and think I'm below everyone.