As many others have already said, you are definitely not weird for it. If thats what you enjoy, don’t let others take it from you just because they might consider it weird.

For me personally, I do both. Sometimes I listen to background music while doing other things. As someone said above, its like elevator music. However, for me it improves the mood for some tasks.
On the other hand, I sit down maybe three times a week just for listening to music. I fully follow the emotions and story of a song or album.
The music is quite different between these two modes. For the background music I just need some good tunes. When listening fully, the song must have a text I like or be a really good instrumental song. Then I also need the right song and order of songs depending on mood. Mostly it’s a curated list from which i select song by song. If I hear a great song in background listening I add it to the list. Later I listen to a more songs of the album or artist with full attention and add the ones I enjoy to my list. Funnily there are songs which then have so much meaning for me, I cannot listen to them in background anymore. Either I skip them or i put my full attention to them.

Both actually. BUT the type of music I listen to changes drastically depending on my activity.

Both. The distinction being when working I listen to albums or a stream, when listening only, it’s by the song.

1000% Not weird at all. The ones judging you for it are the weird ones. Love kicking back and listening to good music. I’m actually laying back on the couch right now after a tiring day and the only reason I’m on Lemmy right now is because I didn’t have my headphones.

I have an over-active imagination and music stimulates it. There’s almost no time in which I’m listening to music and not imagining some emotion-stirring scenario in my head.

It’s a good sign for your ability to focus and concentrate 👍

Yes, our main floor living room doesn’t have a TV. Instead we have a piano, guitar, and high end speakers hooked up to a vinyl player with a collection that I’m constantly growing (probably to my wife’s chagrin). It’s my way of putting my phone out of reach and disconnecting for a minute while The Armed yells at me.

Depends how stoned I am

I thought that’s exactly what we pretentious audiophiles do.

I “metaltate” several times a week. Dark room, closed eyes, focus on breathing, and headphones with black metal.

Does vaping weed count as “doing something else”?

One of my earliest memories of listening to music was in exactly this style.

Our family inherited a mobile trailer that was parked in our front yard for a while. I was a young kid and would use the trailer as “my house”.

I distinctly remember plopping down a boombox on the “kitchen table”, which was just a fold out table with a chair on either side.

I popped in Dr. Dre’s Da Chronic into the cassette deck of the boombox and hit play. Listening to the whole album while sitting on the chair.

Fun times. Stop worrying about how other people consume entertainment and just do what feels good to you.

…you’ve made me realise I actually havent done this in so long

No I do this also

That’s not weird at all. It’s very enjoyable.