Why Listen to Music That a Cat Wouldn't Like?

[Teasing the Korean]

I was getting ready for bed, brushing my teeth, and Alexa for some reason started playing "Rock 'n' Roll Woman" by Buffalo Springfield. At about this time, our Siamese cat Pyewacket wandered into the hall and was just sitting there, looking bored and mildly annoyed.  I was watching her while the song was playing, and I realized how ridiculous the song sounded when juxtaposed against the image of our cat. She may have been enjoying the (minimal) chord progression and the harmony vocals, but I could tell she thought the lyrics were incredibly stupid.  (She's right.) I then asked Ms. TTK if our Siamese cat was a rock 'n' roll woman, and laughing, she exclaimed "No!"  This then got me to wondering why any of us would want to listen to music that a cat wouldn’t like, or or at the very least, that would not pair well with the image of a lounging cat.  The mind boggles.

 

I should add that I am currently listening to the Gil Evans Pacific Jazz twofer CD, and Pyewacket seems to be enjoying it.

Edited August 27, 2022 by Teasing the Korean

[BillF]

Sorry to say it, but my cat doesn't react at all to music. Sounds, yes - particularly the sound of dry cat food tinkling into his metal feeding dish. 

[Teasing the Korean]

5 minutes ago, BillF said:

Sorry to say it, but my cat doesn't react at all to music. Sounds, yes - particularly the sound of dry cat food tinkling into his metal feeding dish. 

Our cat will sit right in front of the speaker for music she likes.  I was once spinning Bernard Herrmann's score to White Witch Doctor, and she instantly ran up!  

[clifford_thornton]

My cat makes her own music. 

Sometimes I play bird sounds for her, which she gets a kick out of.

My roommate ~12 years ago (before I got married) had a cat who sat in front of the speakers for hours and listened to stuff. He was pretty unique in my experience.

[Teasing the Korean]

8 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Sometimes I play bird sounds for her, which she gets a kick out of.

I spin lots of exotica in the summertime, and our cats love the bird sounds!  I also have jungle sound effects on a loop in our tiki room, and they love that!

[Gheorghe]

I always had a cat. Once we had a reddish tiger cat called "Smoti" and he seemed to like the music I heard, especially if I spinned Monk he seemed to like it very much. Or if I got up to play some Monk tune and impro on piano, he would sit on my lap and enjoy it. I never saw something like that. 

Many years later I got that book from Nica Rothschild de Koenigswarter with all them photos and the famous "3 wishes" of jazz musicians and there are many photos of Monk with cats around him. Well, she had so many cats, I couldn´t handle that, I always had to have only one cat as family member.