Do we like music for what it says to us, do people like specific sounds, did your parents affect it with what they listened to? I've just always wondered this....
2006-07-09 15:49:52 · 7 answers · asked by allison 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I think whatever someone starts out listening to will affect your taste forever.
2006-07-09 15:54:35 · answer #1 · answered by Sgt. Pepper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I also think it has a lot to do with what you grew up on. When I was young, my parents always listened to 70s rock music around the house. I also wasn't allowed to watch MTV and didn't listen to the radio much, so what they liked was all I really knew. When I was a little older (like 12-15) I "experimented" with the different types of music that were popular at the time. I liked the Backstreet Boys for a while like every other teenage girl, and I even had a hip-hop phase that I'd like to forget. But eventually I realized that that stuff just isn't for me. Now I'm 21 and I listen mainly to rock music from the 60s-80s. I don't like the SAME music that my parents do - I've definitely incorporated a lot of my own tastes - but I'm sure their music that I grew up on influenced me.
2006-07-09 16:20:58 · answer #2 · answered by shashasha 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it has a lot to do with what you grew up on. I don't remember what my parents listened to when I was little, but my mom loved to sing. I know that when I started caring about music, I was partial to R&B and anything that had good harmonies and you could sing to. The same holds today. It doesn't matter the genre, but if I can't harmonize with it I probably won't like it. I've seen similar patterns in my friends too. I don't think we necessarily follow in our parents (or whoever listened to music around us when we were young) footsteps in our musical choices, but I think it's safe to say that what we listen to when we are young will affect what what we like when we're older.
2006-07-09 16:02:10 · answer #3 · answered by Little S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i like specific sounds, and my father has influenced the older rock i listen to like from the 60's-80s stuff.....i listen to alternative....and thats what my friends listen to, and we talk about this new band and that awesome cd...
ive also developed this anti conformity thing to be different, and hate the mtv scence and their type of junk....and ive never liked hip hop...and i used to listen to pop in the dark ages when i was 8 and 9 and 10 and 11...and so....but now im 14...and have developed my own unique taste in music, and different types....and thats what i choose to do, rather than the conformist side of things
2006-07-09 18:19:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you will find that with age, your hatered for some of it will fade, but not completly. there will always be those songs that will grate on your nerves, new and old. a lot of music will be more to us than just the song or the lyrics, someone we knew, or maybe a special time or place in our lives. and then there are the others, you wish you could shoot those people, but there probably dead anyway. im a really mellow person, but when i need to get pissed off, i just think of those songs. dammit man, it works.
2006-07-09 16:27:45 · answer #5 · answered by chris l 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a great question... I tend to like bands that when I listen, I feel connected to them or just moved emotionally in some way. I also tend to like bands that play music because that's what they want to do and not just to make money.
2006-07-09 15:58:27 · answer #6 · answered by timn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started listening to stuff my closest friends and my bros. listened to and started listening to harder stuff and went from gay stuff to hardcore rock and metal and screamo.It has a lot to do with friends and fam.
2006-07-09 15:55:53 · answer #7 · answered by vansfreak_10 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋