...with a few exceptions, of course.
say, when you're riding on the bus and you hear three piano chords and a feminine sounding voice singing "oh, oooooh, oh-oh" in a strangely '60s pop style...then the dance beats follow and soon you realize that the singer is singing to a girl, so it must be some prepubescent scamp who thinks he's the next donny osmond but is merely canada's answer to L.A. Lopez. (it will be sacrilege to say "next MJ", so there...)
yes, music is painless...about 99 percent of the time.