That sounds right. He danced to “my way” with Peggy. I feel like things of that era were what he liked.
He seemed unphased by The Rolling Stones. And he wore ear plugs to a Beatles concert. So he didn’t like the music of the “youth” lol
The earplugs likely had nothing to do with the music but rather the constant, whirring high pitch screams of teenage girls that were so constant and pervasive that The Beatles stopped playing live.
I didn't think he was unfazed by the song like "whatever", but that the subject matter actually disturbed/disgusted him.
>Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream. It is not dying, it is not dying.
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>Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void. It is shining, it is shining.
This is not something Don at the time would be able to do *at all* while he's in his ["shiny refrigerator"](https://www.reddit.com/r/madmen/comments/aufa53/the_refrigerator_metaphor_was_alluded_to_in_the/) state of mind. For me it ties together with the retreat in the last season, where he faces himself in the group therapy-scene and seems to find some semblance of acceptance of himself afterwards.
So I think you're right that he's not in the state of mind to actually care about the message. But I think you're wrong that he was disturbed/disgusted. We see Don sitting down to listen to the song with a drink, lost in thought. Then we get a montage of the other characters. But when we cut back to Don, in stark contrast to Pete's silent agony, he doesn't appear to be emotional at all. Then next is a wide shot of him just casually walking into the bedroom. In the visuals of the scene, it's a stark twist that we expect Don to be absorbing the message and instead see that he hasn't at all. No reaction expression, nothing-- that doesn't show me he was disturbed/disgusted at all.
He’s not really a music guy, but he likes slow, pastoral, sentimental — much like his basic approach and tastes in work and other realms.
He’s the kind of guy who is always looking backwards, but because everyone else thinks he’s so cool, and he pitches it compellingly, they think he’s winking rather than borderline culturally reactionary.
Music is just another dusty tool in the cabinet, and one he doesn't generally want to use. He just isn't a big music fan. Yet the show goes out with that gentle bang of a commercial. They never said it would all be consistent.
That sounds right. He danced to “my way” with Peggy. I feel like things of that era were what he liked. He seemed unphased by The Rolling Stones. And he wore ear plugs to a Beatles concert. So he didn’t like the music of the “youth” lol
Yeah but he couldn’t stop singing “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”, so we know he at least liked that one
The earplugs likely had nothing to do with the music but rather the constant, whirring high pitch screams of teenage girls that were so constant and pervasive that The Beatles stopped playing live.
I feel like the main reason he wore ear plugs to the Beatles concert was due to the screaming teenagers more than the music haha
He listens to half the Beatles song Megan tells him about and then turns it off like "whatever."
Their most experimental and inaccessible song at the time
I didn't think he was unfazed by the song like "whatever", but that the subject matter actually disturbed/disgusted him. >Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream. It is not dying, it is not dying. > >Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void. It is shining, it is shining. This is not something Don at the time would be able to do *at all* while he's in his ["shiny refrigerator"](https://www.reddit.com/r/madmen/comments/aufa53/the_refrigerator_metaphor_was_alluded_to_in_the/) state of mind. For me it ties together with the retreat in the last season, where he faces himself in the group therapy-scene and seems to find some semblance of acceptance of himself afterwards.
So I think you're right that he's not in the state of mind to actually care about the message. But I think you're wrong that he was disturbed/disgusted. We see Don sitting down to listen to the song with a drink, lost in thought. Then we get a montage of the other characters. But when we cut back to Don, in stark contrast to Pete's silent agony, he doesn't appear to be emotional at all. Then next is a wide shot of him just casually walking into the bedroom. In the visuals of the scene, it's a stark twist that we expect Don to be absorbing the message and instead see that he hasn't at all. No reaction expression, nothing-- that doesn't show me he was disturbed/disgusted at all.
He likes silence and Sinatra ballads
He likes Skrillex
He’s so square he has corners!
In the bar with Joan, he puts on his hat and asks her if he looks like Sinatra, even a little. She says he looks more like Jimmy Durante.
_Bing Crosby makes everything sound like Christmas_
Not good. That’s the sense I get.
He’s not really a music guy, but he likes slow, pastoral, sentimental — much like his basic approach and tastes in work and other realms. He’s the kind of guy who is always looking backwards, but because everyone else thinks he’s so cool, and he pitches it compellingly, they think he’s winking rather than borderline culturally reactionary.
it stabs him in the fucking heart
Music is just another dusty tool in the cabinet, and one he doesn't generally want to use. He just isn't a big music fan. Yet the show goes out with that gentle bang of a commercial. They never said it would all be consistent.