It's not a "supposed to like" thing, it's an 'incredibly likable" thing...
Edit: played the marcus mix out on my boombox last month when it was last sunny and all my friends who don't know much about dance music REALLY liked it. Which I reckon's a good a sign as any of vybez/fun.
well yeah, your friends don't carry around the same heavy preconceptions or have the same lofty demands about dance music that people round here do. It frees them up to just enjoy the music for what it is, in the spirit of what it is made for, on its own terms.
This is gonna be one of them threads where a handful of people who are into it and 'get' what makes the genre distinct are constantly having to defend and justify it. Just like the bassline and to some extent the UK Funky threads (really, check out the first few pages of that thread to see how easily and snootily people can dismiss stuff - me included!).
I didn't like Jackin much when i first heard it tbh, but that MN/Shantie set really clicked with me and now I'm loving a lot of this stuff. I certainly didn't get into it because I was 'supposed to' - I resent that charge Andy! I'd been criticising Marcus' show for a while and that Jackin set happened to really engage my interest in him again, to my surprise. In fact, I didn't really want to like it, but i just couldn't
help it.
