For the last 15-20+ years, whenever I consume media, I almost always do it from the perspective of the performer. The first time, anyway. How much fun must it have been to play this role? What would it have been like to lay down that bass line? How would I sing that song? What would it be like to be the sort of person who can write a passage like that? Would I tell that joke the same way?
Absorbing work that way allows me to appreciate it completely differently than most people do, a feeling I think all artists know. One of the most delightful parts about being a performer myself now is that my appreciation for art and the artists who create it has only continued to deepen.
Then Cher showed up.