Why Are We Here?

[Tom22]

1. I love Haley Reinhart!

I love Haley’s MUSIC (both covers and originals) .
Haley is a pleasant enough person and a good kid. It can be kind of endearing when she gets goofy but not enough to say her personality is part of my interest in her. I “loved” some of the girls I coached on my daughters team (especially one that put their fingers in their ears and screamed when they didn’t want to take my advice, and another girl who was a great player but just couldn’t help herself from grabbing a loose ball with her hands sometime (big penalty) . I loved John Belushi .. Haley doesn't get on that kind of list for me (yet?) .

BUT I do love the part of her personality that she imbues her performances … I’m not sure if I see that swagger in the songs in her nice friendly persona when talking (although her sense of humor lets it escape sometimes!lol)

2. I love Haley Reinhart and would love to hear from others on the subject.
3. I love good music and Haley Reinhart embodies the whole concept of good music.

BINGO - on the hearing from others on the subject
And the whole concept of good music
I want to UNDERSTAND WHY people like her . I’m on this mission to understand why I like some performers so much when other exquisite voices(say Beyonce?) just don’t move me.
I guess that is a philosophical voyage of discovery I’m on. I have similar emotions to live grateful dead music, and some Dixieland and bluegrass music (but while those excite me they somehow tire me to in ways that the mix of blues and chords that Haley and the Dead use that allows me to listen to them non stop. . Discussions of the classic rock and other stuff here helped me close in a bitsy bit but I’m still perplexed in many ways
I’m going to keep thinking and trying to look at notes and patterns on themes and rhythms that tie across things. I’ve looked into the grateful dead in the past years.
There is a love or hate reaction with the grateful dead , even after people have listened to them long enough to put the hippy image aside. I know pleanty of people who are Rush Limbaugh types who hate liberals with a passion but still love the Deads concert tapes immensely. Some people just don’t see it at all, and I’m thinking it might be some weird personality based attraction to certain patterns or repeated and resolving themes (like a theme in a symphony) that triggers some dopamine response.

So… I’m trying to see if there are any connections of particular things people like between groups within the Haley fan crowd.

I read just too many times in too many places that people suddenly felt “ADDICTED” to “Bennie and the Jetts” … I really haven’t seen that comment made about other songs for years now watching all the idol and other sing show forums.


4. I love Miguel and Haley Reinhart.
- props to Miguel … but for his hard work, not a cult of personality

5. I hate Randy Jackson.
- he baffles me in a negative way.. but I go to Slezak for profound Snarking on Randy, not here

6. I'm not sure what I love, but I could be influenced.

- forums in general are interesting ways to hear people from different world experiences bring up topics I’m not familiar with or takes on events that might be different from my circle. I’m always active in one internet forum or another from a joy of that kind of contact

7. I post therefore I am.

I can get compulsive about posting on subjects I’m interested in - 14 to 10 years ago it was investment and stock trading forums . Been game forums and news and politic forums I’ve got obsessive about now and then

8. What's the question?
- guess that’s the place for “OTHER”

I’m also intrigued about the Music Business . I like to learn new things. I’m not a lawyer but I read the full length Justices opinions some times. I read an odd science academic journal article sometimes and many less intense but equally obscure article. I read a lot of economic white papers… understanding economics is like understanding why people like particular music.. Probably impossible to pin down but situation-ally understandable.

Tracking Haley’s career is a great window into entertainment business concepts (although I’d like much more). People here post every little thing about haley so its an interesting chance to try to understand a business I know nothing about (for the pursuit of knowledge as an end in itself).

Tied into the business issues are some very interesting developments of things like “intellectual” property and international legal jurisdiction issues and differences. So, tracking one performer helps keep me tied to an angle on that broader interest of mine

9. It's my lucky number and Haley's too.

_- I never want to miss one of Haley’s “numbers” . All her performances, are referred and linked to here (even if fleetingly) so … checking in regularly makes sure I get a new twist on my favorite fix !