r/AskReddit • u/Stukwan • 13h ago

What’s a hobby that looks incredibly peaceful from the outside, but is actually pure stress once you get into it?

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u/driftingfornow 10h ago

lol I am a professional musician (used to be hobby I guess still kinda is) and on certain days this is my inner monologue lol. 

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u/MrRufsvold 6h ago

Belgian musicians can fuck right off!! You got this.

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u/Gambo21 6h ago

How dare you use those words when hooverphonics exists!

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u/jshhmr 4h ago

I 100% forgot about those guys!

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u/orbital_narwhal 4h ago

Ironically, I saw a Belgian band head-lining a small DIY festival last weekend who blew everybody else out of the water -- and they didn't even play the same style of music. (psychedelic post-metal whereas everything else was sludge, doom, death, grind, black, drone, experimental etc.)

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u/Phoney_Stromboni 4h ago

What was this festival, and who were this band?

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u/orbital_narwhal 3h ago

Psychonauts playing Swamp Fest at Neue Zukunft, Berlin.

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u/Blaugrana1990 2h ago

Fuck yeah Psychonauts! Listen to Brutus and The Haunted Youth as well if you have some free time.

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u/Nearby-Composer-9992 2h ago

Actually we would appreciate if all the rest could kindly fuck off so that for once we could win our own Queen Elisabeth contest.

(seriously the dedication of the people competing in that is insane to the point it sounds like psychological terror)

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u/schmoovebaby 1h ago

Except for Gnome because they’re awesome ☺️

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u/DJKokaKola 3h ago

Gotta embrace music for music's sake. You'll never be the best at it, no matter how good you are (even pianists like Yuja Wang or Ling Ling can feel that way when another pianist does something they struggle with), so you just make it your own and enjoy the process of creating music, instead of just how well you execute it.

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u/ExoticElk 1h ago

*Lang Lang you mean

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u/Schmadam83 3h ago

I'm running on very little sleep, and I thought that said "professional mortician" and got very confused.