I don't even bother attempting to show people that I like ayumi hamasaki, a japanese singer. People already think I'm a bit of a weirdo for not being too sociable and for being shy. I, however, don't share any of my music interests with the majority of people, even regular pop that everybody loves, so that's really part of my not sharing my private life with others.
My bf only knows I like ayumi because he's caught me reading and posting here on AHS several times. He just bothered asking what the site was about and I told him. He really didn't care to know what she might sound like or whatver so I didn't even bother to play her musics in front of him, which I never do. I do get a bit annoyed for the total lack of curiosity from his side though...
Funny though, one day I played some 80's brazilian female singer song in a low volume and I noticed he seemed a bit weirded out while playing those portable jewel-breaking games. I asked him if he remembered the song and he said: "I don't think i've ever heard it, is that the japanese singer you love?
I hear a lot of cats screaming". I raised the volume a little more and he recognized the song was not japanese and actually from his childhood time
I wonder why he assumed it was japanese and associated it with "cats screaming" if he hasn't even ever heard any jpop song. I guess he just had it on mind that it would be something really weird so he associated it lol. Even so, I don't bother playing her in front of him because I noticed he gets annoyed with regular american pop when there's a little more guitars and high notes and tell me to tone down the volume of what I'm listening, which is something that drives me mad. So I just can imagine how annoyed he'd be with the vibratos, guitars and high notes of ayumi...
Recently, while on night shift (and I was resting at home) he called me and asked me what I was doing and I said "enjoying ayumi's new album". The next day when we met he said "listening too much to "Raimunda" (brazillian's female name equivalent to "Raymond")? How horrible LOL