Inclinations to music?

Question

Do you think one's personality or thoughts are reflected by his choice of music? I am the only person in my family who listens to alternative rock and metal rock exclusively. They look down on me as if I was a wild, unruly person.

Answer 1

We all go through phases and different stages in our life. I do believe that a lot of the time music does reflect what one is going through at times in ones life. Rebellion is a stage that most adolescence go through and can carry on into some adult years. As one grows so does their experience in music and their taste in music. We will always have certain music from our youth that we will still enjoy now and again but now we don't go with the flavor of the month but know with out a doubt what we define to be music to us. I have had a variety of music presented to me in my home as a youth. I am now an adult that enjoys a variety of music. Your taste may change as you grow older or you may have found the very music that stirs your soul, after all is that not what music is truly for?

Answer 2

Certainly not, and especially less so for the person who is knowledgeable about what music really is. One's "inclination" has very little to do with it, except that one is inclined toward music generally, and not "amusic". A musician's ability to elicit or "charm" the listener\audience is more telling, not the listener's puffed-up sense of self sophistication, resulting in the misconception of preference, which is just as arbitrary as one's choice of flavor with sweets.

Since one's imagination can govern memory, and the imaginative faculty is hyper-plastic, the one fixated on a genre has voluntarily fixated on the images that particular genre has elicited. So giving over to a genre or particular musician is intellectually retardative.

There is a grain of truth in what family thinks. In respect to your mind, they see you are influenced by distanced others, controlling your time as if by remote control, by agency of novel harmonies, rythms, and lyricism.

Understanding music is part of one's lifelong education. At a critical point a thinker knows it is necessary to cultivate resistance to it.

Answer 3

Their reaction has nothing to do with the music you listen to and everything to do with what they THINK the music you listen to says about you. In order to be successful, musicians have to sell an "image" along with their music, targeting listeners who want to think of themselves in a certain way. Those who wish to be stronger will be drawn to aggressive music, those who are laid back will prefer calmer tunes, rebellious teens are drawn to rebellious music, and so on. However, this is not true of all listeners. Some (especially those who are themselves musicians) listen critically to music and prefer the music that they think is well made, regardless of its genre or "image".

Try not to worry too much about how people will judge you based on your music preferences. This is an issue of their superficiality, not your character.

Answer 4

I listen to everything... I'm a person who wants to do everything though, so I suppose that is a reflection.

I also like listening to music that really hits an emotion, or is catchy.

Answer 5

no, it's just what the music does to you, you could be in any frame of mind, and you would still listen to any music. it's basically what you're mind wants to hear, but it's your own personal preferance to how you want to hear it. it's like different learning styles

Answer 6

Music makes your heart beat, so do words sometimes, and also certain music can make your heart skip a beat, it can also tend to make one want to move.

Answer 7

Yes.
I listen to classical mostly.
This doesn't mean one of us is right and the other wrong.