development corrupts

I've never dealt well with background music. Unless it's very familiar, my brain latches onto it, and I get distracted too much. I can't shut it out.

But someone linked me to a performance of Smooth Criminal by two guys on cellos (pretty cool), and I clicked through to the related playlist -- and accidentally discovered that apparently soft music without words works as background music for me.

It's really quite soothing.

ETA: hmm and now I'm tempted to delete all my songs and start over *g*