do you find it easy to listen to music and enjoy it like a fan of that particular song? or do you nitpick bits and pieces and only listen to it in a technical sense? this keeps happening to me and it scares me, i miss listening to music for fun.
the technical criteria i use is ONLY based on fun and/or emotional fulfillment. that's how i derive anything technical i know or don't know about music. this also will be different from person to person, which is really why there are no strict rules in music