Angels and Airwaves and stereotyping

I originally meant to make this post a homage to bands that I secretly listen to and L-O-V-E (ahem, Ashlee Simpson reference). I then realized WHY I only listen to them when no one else is in the apartment, or I'm alone in my car.
Because I don't want to be judged. I am sure the few readers I have who I was starting to build some so-called "cred" with are rolling their eyes and clicking along to the next blog.
This goes hand-in-hand with my hesitations about letting people know that I am in a sorority. I fear that people will automatically throw out everything they already know about me and put me in the sorostitute/sorority girl/drunkslut category. Similar to how anyone who knows and respects my musical taste might throw out all of the great new albums and bands I've turned them on to because I know every word of "The Adventure" by Angels and Airwaves.
That is completely ridiculous!
I never really got into the whole Blink-182 phenomenon. One of my roommates my second year of college had loved them since he was a kid. He got the Angels and Airwaves CD because of Tom DeLonge, and played it for me one night over 40's and hot-dogs.
One night a few weeks later I put the song on at a party and someone who loved it asked me what it was. When I told them they replied "I didn't know you liked Blink-182. I thought you had better taste than that," before laughing at me. BEFORE THEY KNEW WHO IT WAS THEY SAID THEY LIKED IT! They also automatically assumed that I like Blink-182.
I'm sure Blink was/is a great band but they just were never really on my radar.
Again to compare it to my sorority, you can imagine similar reactions and phrases like, "I thought you were cool!"
Well, I am cool and I like music that I used to keep a secret. NO MORE!
Ashlee Simpson, Hilary Duff, Angels and Airwaves, All American Rejects, Saves the Day, Dixie Chicks (only that cowboy take me away song...they're just too twangy for me), Eddie Money, N'Sync, Justin Timberlake...whatever...now you know and that is only a few of them.
Visualization. I'm still cool, and I'm in a sorority. Gamma Phi Beta yay!