Cigarettes After Sex is one of my very favorite bands at the moment. Holding a very odd and specific genre, cigs falls under the shoe-gaze category that I have recently learned about and come to love. Shoe-gaze music is a type of ethereal and spacey sounding music that can range from some pretty hard rock to some pretty chilled out and mellow songs like that of cigs music.
Cigarettes After Sex has been making music since around 2008 when they were created in El Paso, Texas, there lead singer Greg Gonzalez has created music unlike that of any sort of music you’ve ever heard. People have categorized it as a dreamy or even “androgynous” sound of music. It’s quite hard to find anything similar to it and for that reason it holds a very specific type of happiness when I listen to it.
A lot of their songs have themes of love and romance and all of the struggles in between. I think that their audience has a good focus on later teenagers and young adults that are going through the motions of life and figuring things out for themselves. Shoe-gaze music in general has a very acquired taste for some of the different sub-genres. It is a very hard to understand genre but the audience for the genre is pretty die hard and in touch group. I think this is due to just how relevant and relatable the music genre can be. It’s hard to explain but the beat and ethereal sound just makes sense when things in life just really don’t. I think a lot of music artists have their audience and the people who listen to them tell a lot about that person. People align themselves often with the music they listen to and find a personality expression through that music. Shoe-gaze music whether you think you listen to it or not happens to show up in a lot of different teens and people of our age.
I think one of the best ways to get a read on someones personality is through their music taste. As long as music is prominent in ones life, just simply as taking a look at someones playlist can tell you a lot about that persons life and how they are as a person.Music choice and taste in my opinion play a greater role in personality factors, then you would think. The similarities and differences in our music provide a pretty strong correlation to who we are as people. If you take a look around at the people you know you can start to make these musical connections.
Cigs is one of the good examples for me, showing what I choose to listen to in certain moods. I usually listen to cigs when i’m studying, in school, or driving usually at night. This shows how my mental state is during more quiet head heavy moments. If you look at what music people listen to in all sorts of environments, the pieces fall together.
Music and Mass Media 