Is anyone else like me?

[Chase]

I was feeling a bit melancholy and wondering if anyone happens to be in the same musical situation as me...

A little background: I am a male teenager in high school. I'm pretty sure I'm part of the popular crowd - everyone in the school knows my name and everyone loves me. I have a flourishing social life, and plenty of friends. I am a big part of my school's Drama Club - I've held 1 walk-on role when I started, 2 supporting roles later, and recently I've been the star with 3 lead roles. I like to brag about this since I worked so hard to achieve it all, haha!

But I digress...getting to the point now!

Music is a big part of my life and I share it with all my friends! We love Pop music, and listen to it together all the time. I'm known for being able to rap every word to every Nicki Minaj song ever! My TRUE love in music however, is Trance music. I have a gigantic collection of mainstream Trance, underground Trance, and countless Trance sub-genres (also some rare stuff which I am quite proud of, haha). I started liking Trance when I accidentally found the song "Let It Rain" by 4 Strings on YouTube, and I never looked back since that day!

Sadly, this part of my music collection is only visited when I am alone. I've tried getting friends into it countless times - playing catchy Trance songs at parties, sharing them with close friends with open minds, and posting them on Facebook...but there has been absolutely no feedback. My friends don't comment much on it, and when I force an opinion out of them they either say it's "cool" and then never listen to it again, or they say it's not exactly their taste. In the years I've been a Trance fan, I have never met a single other person who loves it like I do. My only friends who share this taste in music are internet friends who I ahve never met in person. Although I've exposed my real-life friends to it, Trance music doesn't seem to touch any of them the way it does me...reaching to the depths of my soul and healing any negative feelings while bringing me into beautiful mental states I've never experienced before...all without the use of any drugs!

So what I want to know is if anyone else here is in the same situation as me, where none of your friends seem to appreciate Trance music the way you do. Or have you been able to find someone else who does? (In which case, please console me! )

[electronomist]

I have friends who love Trance, and ones who hate it, but we all have common ground in some kinds of music, so count yourself lucky that you can listen to some things together!

I can bet you will one day make more friends who like Trance, once you make it out to clubs that play this music you will meet many like minded people of course (i'm guessing you're a little young yet?). People's musical tastes change as they get older so you never know, keep working on your friends, they may come round to your way of thinking!

[IRL303]

Originally Posted by Chase

I have never met a single other person who loves it like I do.

You've never met me or my friends then

Tell me about these rare tunes you have? Me and a few others here could really show you what oldskool trance is about

[Akira Project]

100% true stories.

When I was asked at work what I was doing on my spare time, I said I was producing music.
They asked what genre.
I said trance.
"Oh you mean like Basshunter?"
"No... Not like Basshunter."

When I asked another guy what kind of music he listen too at home.
He said he liked techno.
"Cool what kind of techno?"
"Basshunter"
"...ok. Cool..."

And when me wife told her dad I was making music, he said: "Yeah I used to make music as well, with a music production program called Dance E-jay".

I have absolutely no one in my vicinity who knows what trance is. They all listen to Basshunter or Celine Dion.

[Chase]

Originally Posted by electronomist

I can bet you will one day make more friends who like Trance, once you make it out to clubs that play this music you will meet many like minded people of course (i'm guessing you're a little young yet?). People's musical tastes change as they get older so you never know, keep working on your friends, they may come round to your way of thinking!

True. I just turned 18 and I've never been to a club or rave before in my life, so I hope you're right!

Originally Posted by IRL303

Tell me about these rare tunes you have? Me and a few others here could really show you what oldskool trance is about

I'm not really allowed to talk about some of the stuff I have. It's mostly acapellas of vocal tracks and WAV rips of stuff that's only available in low quality though.

Originally Posted by Akira Project

I have absolutely no one in my vicinity who knows what trance is. They all listen to Basshunter or Celine Dion.

Haha, glad to know someone knows how I feel! People around here like Basshunter too, but know nothing about Trance or even Dance music in general!
Celine Dion has some pretty hot remixes, by the way!

[Burnie]

I know what you mean, I live in a small town and when I mention that I listen to/play trance people look at me like I'm insane. The worst part is, a lot of my friends are in to their electro/dubstep/techno and they constantly tell me that I won't get anywhere playing trance. I'm pretty easy going so it doesn't bother me as much as it might some people, but you're definitely not alone.

[IRL303]

Originally Posted by Chase

I'm not really allowed to talk about some of the stuff I have.

wtf!? Will you be killed or something if you talk about it? So how about you tell me what producers and artists you like?