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

Kind of contrary to some of the examples in the topic, I've noticed some people don't like listening to video game music just because it is from a video game. My mom is one of these people. She hates video games, so she immediately discredits music from games as not being good.

After her telling me a few times she didn't like music just because "it was in a video game", I tried doing what someone mentioned earlier, where I put on music but made no mention of its origin. The first thing she said was, "I don't like this. It sounds video game-y." She called it out even when I didn't tell her. Then I wondered, does video game music really sound that different from everything else?

Then, a couple months back, I got an idea. I burned a CD full of 70's music, mostly disco. This was music made before video games really had music, and before I was born. This was the stuff my mom liked when she was younger. And when I put it in, my mom sais, "Oh, this is video game music. I don't care for it." And about a minute later she said, "Oh wait, I know this song."

In conclusion, a lot of people don't really give video game music a fair shot, they just refuse to listen to it based on their presupposed ideas.

Jam it back in, in the dark.