# What would you call this concept?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 30, 2013, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-this-concept/659694 "2013-05-30T08:06:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-this-concept/659694/1 "2013-05-30T08:06:23Z")

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I had heard of Dolly Parton around 1971, concerning her singing, her country heritage and, of course, her famous figure. She was on TV and made quite a number of appearances in magazines and newspaper articles in the 70s.  
Starting in the late 1970s I made audio-cassette recordings of “beautiful” music off FM radio; there was such a station in Los Angeles at the time, KBIG. I made quite a few 90-minute recordings of KBIG (and later KJOI) music in the 70s and 80s.  
In February 1981, on one such recording, was a song with the lines “Love is like a butterfly/A rare and gentle thing.” I had made the recordings to play back and enjoy, and this song delighted me. In the late 1980s I was working as a security guard in a school office building, and I sat at the receptionist’s desk when she left for the day; people would file out past the desk, and I often played music, including the cassette with the “butterfly” song, at the time.  
One employee heard the song and asked me, “Do you know who that singer is?”  
“No, I don’t,” I said.  
He said, “That’s Dolly Parton.”  
I was surprised. For six years I had played my cassettes, including this one, with a song I liked without identifying the singer. I didn’t know it was her.  
What would one call this–this appreciation of the song and the voice without knowing whose it was–which would have possibly prejudiced me?

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-call-this-concept/659694/2 "2013-05-30T10:49:20Z")

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“Ignorance is bliss”