The meaning of the word "music fan" is as old as the world, and is familiar even to a ten-year-old child. It can be found in any dictionary and any encyclopedia. A music lover is a true lover of certain music.
Some historians say that before this word was used by all people without exception who showed at least some interest in musical art. However, is everything as simple as it seems? Let's try to figure it out.
State of soul
A music lover is a person for whom music, like air, performs a life-supporting function. It is interesting that they do not become them, they are born! The well-developed sense of rhythm, melodism and voice data from birth turn these people into professionals in their field. Their occupation cannot be called a hobby in the full sense of the word, it is rather an addiction. The main territory of the music lover is nightclubs, cafes and other institutions where songs are played. By the way, all these people are professionally engaged in collecting music (CDs, albums, individual tracks).
Melomania as fetishism
It is scary to say, but for some representatives, melomania is akin to sexual relations with the opposite sex. In other words, they are somewhat attracted to inanimate carriers of musical information. There is an objectification of art: your favorite songs are played on your favorite discs, which you can always carry with you, fall asleep with them and almost pray for them! Such behavior on the part of "musical people" has made some adjustments to the understanding of the term. According to some sources, a music lover is a musical fetishist.
"Split personality"
Of course, these people are wonderful interlocutors who are ready at any moment to give competent musical advice! At the same time, different music lovers behave differently: some are advised to listen to within a certain direction, while others are “covered” on all topics, taking little by little everywhere. Such a paradoxical "split personality" among them led to the "split" of the concept itself. Now it is believed that a music lover is also the one who goes crazy in one single musical direction (pop, rock, rap, hip-hop, retro, folk rock, dance, etc.), and the one who manages to combine all this in one "bouquet".
Naturally, music lovers in the first sense of the word at first did not accept their "omnivorous" colleagues, but after a while everything settled down, and these terms were rightly called both.
Sport and style
There is an opinion that many guys wearing an earring in their left ear are also true connoisseurs of musical art. This is almost the case, however, we specify. The fact is that male music lovers are divided into:
The first ones are people involved in any kind of sport, for example, swimming or boxing. A sports music fan will never pierce his ear. This is done by musical dudes. By the way, many of them are metrosexuals.
But be that as it may, a music lover is, of course, an honorary title! If music lives in your soul, then you are most likely its passionate lover, and someday you will definitely understand it!