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Kelefa Sanneh

Apology

CHAPTER

The Limits of Listening to Music

I think there's a lot of things that feel wrong. Some people claim to love all kinds of music, but like, it doesn't really make sense to say you love all music,. That's just a way of saying like, I have no taste, right? My ears don't work. And one of the things that obsessive listeners like me, one of the ways if we can be useful at all is just by helping people think about that. Think about why do I like what I like? Why do other people like what they like? What does the world look like if you like this stuff?"

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