Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Familiar=good?

After perusing a schedule of Summer concerts recently, I nodded in recognition at two of the band names.

"Oh, good," I said.  "(This band) is performing once again this year.  So is (another band.)"  

Then, I laughed a little.  I've never heard either of those bands play, but for a moment, I'd reasoned, "They must be good since they're asked back year after year."

Familiarity, even just surface level familiarity, is am inexplicably powerful lure sometimes.