"I can't listen to this. It's Video Game music and needs to be in a game"

I seem to get these type of responses whenever I lend someone Video Game music to try out or listen to it while someone else is listening.

I never really minded. It's all just music for me. I never really understood the people who closed their mind to Video Game music because it just "reminds them of playing the game". Or it's simply like they can never really "get into it".

I'd like to hear your views on this. Does the fact that the music comes from a video game have any bad effects on you listening to Video Game music without playing the game?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Megavolt

What you should do is find some rock'n VGM of high sound quality or something but perhaps not tell them that the music is coming from a videogame. See if somebody likes it then. That might tell you whether or not it's just a personal notion about the nature of VGM.

The funny thing is that I just thought about that a few days ago after I let my friend listen to the Sonic CD Japan Gamerip (she said she just couldn't get into it due to it being "gaming" material). I think I'll try to do that sometime.

In regards to what you said about people being close-minded due to "image". I do believe a lot of people do this. Such as when me and another friend were chatting about old TV shows and Pokemon came up. She said she loved listening to the ending show songs when she was a kid. I told her I could give her the soundtrack but she said "I'm a little too old for that now".

I think others just subciously do it to though (such as everything having it's "proper" place) which turns them off from it as well). I guess that would be subciously close-minded.

I'm curious to see the views of the people who just don't like the style of VGM (since I'm sure that's a reason some don't really care for it outside the game either).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Exactly aznmuzikboi. I'm a pretty diverse music lover. I love all kinds of music which lead me to the VGM scene. There's just some great music out there and It's sad that other people can't/won't let themselves get into it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.