By throwawaybcwhynoT8 • Score: 0 • April 13, 2025 4:18 PM
So my friend [21 M] has a habit of stealing my music. We used to be friends on an app that lets you see what music your friends are listening to. I thought it would be fun. It was not fun after a while. slowly all the songs i’d listen to, favorite artists, everything, would be in their playlists. Music is meant to be shared, i just never actually shared with them. If i played music around them they would just wait until i left to search for the music instead of asking me. if i point out a song is from me they get angry instead of acknowledging, they’ve never even complimented my music taste, they just take it from me and act like it’s their own. A lot of my music is very personal for me, so when i hear those songs from them it feels really weird. They have music they listen to and it does not match up with what i listen to, we have overlapping artists because i listen to damn near everything, they don’t though, so hearing them play my songs feels uncomfortable because it isn’t them, it isn’t songs they’d play naturally or find naturally. they’ve done this with other things to, i express a deep interest for something then suddenly they love it too: tv shows, youtubers, songs, etc. things they were never interested in before, things that are the polar opposite of the content they’d chose to consume regularly. I’m not sure what it is but it’s uncomfortable to not be able to share interests with someone without them trying to make it their own and part of their personality when it never was. I’ve struggled trying to be myself and trying to express my hobbies and things i enjoy, so when i do it’s very vulnerable for me, and this isn’t the first person who decided that my personality is one they wanted for themselves. It makes it so hard to really enjoy anything in private or with them, because what if they find out. They take the joy out of things that are unique and special to me. So i’ve decided to stop sharing music with them, i removed them from the app, and won’t play my music around them, but AITA for doing so?
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