Perhaps the difference is that I'm much less interested, perhaps not at all, in learning about a song's meaning as much as I am interested in connecting with ot

Perhaps the difference is that I'm much less interested, perhaps not at all, in learning about a song's meaning as much as I am interested in connecting with others and learning more about myself through their experiences. There's definitely a place for ingesting information purely for the sake of learning. That's rarely been my relationship with music though.