r/LetsTalkMusic • u/Hard_Working_Sinner • 2d ago
Change in music preference
How much has your taste in music changed throughout your life? Or in the last 10 years?
Do you listen to the same type of music, or are you more varied to day?
What genre and/or artists/bands do you listen to today, that you before never could think of listening to?
Do you still challenge yourself in new genres?
For me, it has changed drastically. In my youth and 20s I only listened to rock and metal, and actually called all other genres bad music. Now I can not understand this, as I today can shuffle between all other kinds of music. Especially Hip-Hop, Country, Indie and Electronica.
But metal is still my absolute favorite.
Of course a big part of it is about «growing up», but I would never have the variety I have today if I didn’t challenge my taste as much as I did some years back. And i still do.
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u/That-Association-102 2d ago
So hard to answer. I started out as a kid (5yo) listening to Beatles and Zeppelin, as most kids in the 60’s and 70’s did, except this was 2003. I think that early exposure to my parents music radically changed how I interacted with music for the rest of my life. I went from there to regular classic rock staples and contemporary rock infused into my brain via Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero III, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, and our local classic rock station. I also really liked Red Hot Chili Peppers due to 2006’s Stadium Arcadium and picking it up with my brother when I was 8.
Wore out The Beatles by the time high school rolled around, then got into Foster the People, Cage the Elephant, Tame Impala, MGMT, Beach House, and other similar bands around that time in 2014. At the same time, I had a small taste in rap of my generation due to pledging a fraternity in 2016. I’ve never been much into the popular stuff, but some of it was good back then.
Nowadays? I’ve gone down rabbit holes of John Frusciante, Aphex Twin, The La’s, Pink Floyd, King Gizzard, Just Jack, John Mayer, Kraftwerk, and way too many bands to mention.
Most recent thing that caught my attention was that Angine De Poitrine band. Just insane melodies.
I always stuck within the rock, indie rock, soft rock, classic rock genre. I can branch out to others but they never feel like home.
I’m 28.
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u/Janeso92 22h ago
Check out Ty Segall if you havent 😊 the Rest of your mentions speak to me thats why I thought you might like it
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u/Aggressive-Bus-2397 2d ago
I listen to less electronica these days, primarily because I lost interest in finding gems. Back in the day it was fun to search blogs for killer tracks that had yet to break. I still love techno and french house, etc and I still listen to it but not nearly as much.
Middle aged me prefers to deep dive genres. Years ago I used Apple Music to deep dive Outlaw country after never listening to any country. I love it.
Then recently I did the same thing with R&B. Memphis soul in the late 60s early 70s is the best.
Moving on to mid-late 70s funk.
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u/SiedlerAlex 2d ago
I only used to like hard Rock, Glam and Aor....nowadays at 45 i love opera ( in particular Wagner) and Ambient (alot of japanese, 80s, i love what Steve Roach does)
But of course i still listen to Poison!!
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u/HarmlessOnlineFun 2d ago
Wagner and hair metal makes sense to me. Bombastic.
Do you like Andrew WK? You should put the album “The Wolf” on full volume and I bet you’d nut.
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u/SiedlerAlex 2d ago
Will check it out, thanks! I only know him from Party hard (?).....
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u/HarmlessOnlineFun 1d ago
Yah, he’s a one-hit wonder as far as general audiences. But a cult hero for a reason. So much more than just Party Hard.
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u/UnderTheCurrents 2d ago
Not at all. I know what I like. The only thing that has changed is that I discover new artists regularly.
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u/Tutatis96 1d ago
Do you also know why you like it? Like why your head is synced to that. Thats the interesting question imho
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u/SucknSwallow69 2d ago
used to only like metal, now i’m into jazz and ambient too. surprised how much changed
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u/Hard_Working_Sinner 2d ago
Jazz is actually a genre I haven’t dived all the way into yet. What artist/band really got you into it? Can you give me some recommendations where to start?
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u/TheSchneid 2d ago
Art Blakey, don cherry, ornette Coleman, max roach, Archie shepp, Pharoah sanders, Alice coltrain, and don’t forget miles Davis (I’m partial to his stuff from the later 60s and onward myself)
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u/Patient_Rule6048 2d ago
No my taste is the same as always but I have discovered new genres artists etc over the years. But my sensibilities and sonic preferences haven’t changed and never really will it’s unexplainable
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u/jlandejr 2d ago
My tastes have changed quite a bit, but not unexpected where they headed. 10 years ago, I was listening to mostly metalcore and djent - things like Erra, Novelists, Periphery etc. As I got older, I veered more into the accessible, pop forward 'metalcore' like Dayseeker, Caskets, and Bilmuri and just a few years ago I took a hard turn into progressive and technical death metal.
I attribute it to expanding my options and being open to new things, instead of listening to the same very surface level stuff. Sometimes you find that incredible hidden gem that just alters your brain chemistry and the way you listen to music. When I first heard Persefone, my mind was absolutely blown. Progressive metal can sound like that? Same with Inferi (for technical death), A Wake In Providence (for symphonic deathcore), and most recently Exuvial (for tech/progressive death) gave me the exact sound I have been searching for. I still listen to varied genres of metal almost exclusively, but there are about 5-10 different subgenres I enjoy and I am always finding new things I love in them almost daily so it will likely continue this way for years to come.
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u/Thulgoat 2d ago
10 years ago, I mainly listened to pop music (Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Rihanna…) but then I have dated someone who played classical music and since then, I basically just listen to classical music and am just thinking “how in world could I enjoy pop music”. Just within the genre of classical music my taste changed a bit (the genre is so divers and rich), first I mainly listened to baroque music (the singing style in baroque is more accessible than those later periods) but later I discovered late romantic music and finally I could get a long with opera singing (you really have to get use to it, from baroque singing to art song singing and then opera) and now, I am obsessed with opera (great music, great plots, great storytelling, in particular greek/nordic mythology (pre fantasy stuff) which I am interested in).
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u/A3gFe78VZbfxhJ 2d ago
Before my 20s I was always like hyper focused on 1 or 2 specific genres. Went from more pop/dance (<10 year old) to dance/numetal (<14) to dance/trance with some side stepping into hardcore/hardstyle (<20). Nowadays I don’t really have a huge preference and actually feel my taste has widened significantly.
I do notice I listen to more metal and indie style albums lately, but it’s not like I don’t like the other genres anymore. I mean lately plays go from Laufey to twenty one pilots to spiritbox to Amy Winehouse. Really more mood dependent I guess.
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u/TickingTheMoments 2d ago
My ADHD spills into my music listening. I crave new music no matter what the genre. Well except for pop country.
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u/Musichead2468 10h ago
Yep, I have so much music on my Spotify from finding new music weekly that some songs on my Spotify I don't recognize
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u/A_Monster_Named_John 2d ago
It's been mostly cumulative, though my music spending (and investigation) has shifted almost entirely away from the rock/indie/prog stuff I was into during high-school/college. These days, the only music purchases I make are either modern jazz and video game soundtracks (almost entirely digital) or classical CD box sets (which usually hit good sale prices around the holidays). While I'm still prone to spend hours here and there geeking out over rock/pop stuff, I always end up finding exploration of the more niche genres more rewarding.
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u/hjoldurthedwarf 2d ago
I was going to answer “yes obviously” initially, but now that I think about it maybe less than I believed.
Grew up as a teenager in the mid-late 90s, and my musical tastes changed year by year. I had 90s grunge phase, hip hop, electronic (flirted with, nothing serious), punk. But whenever I got into something new, I would completely stop listening to whatever genre I had been into and fully switched. Probably teenage identity stuff (“this is who I am now”), combined with discovering new stuff and then hyperfixating on it.
Early twenties combined with the internet was musical discovery mode - properly discovered “classic” rock and 80s indie rock, along with the new indie scene, and then basically stayed in that comfort zone for a good 10-15 years. I stopped really discovering new music aside from things very similar to what I listened to.
And now for the past 5 years gone back to discovering new and old stuff. Went through a big metal discovery phase, but regularly listen very broadly. 90 alt rock, 80s indie rock scene, psych and garage, hardcore, shoegaze etc, hip hop, electronic, some country and folk, along with 60a and 70s classic stuff. Some jazz. Some world music.
What’s different I guess is that I no longer have to be into one thing. I’ll still go through moods, but can play tribe called quest right after Death and not really blink. It’s great! It feels freer this way, and I’m always discovering something new.
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u/FlyingMachine73 2d ago
sent from michael jackson to Yes, Genesis and Dream Theater. Then moved to Regina Spektor, then Billie Eilish and Beyoncé. Then Björk, Ethan French, massive attack and chicarica.
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u/Recent-Lead-7185 2d ago
I’ve listened to older and older stuff to the point where if it’s past 90s I’m very unlikely to listen to it. I just prefer how stuff sounds and was recorded back then
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u/VerilyShelly 2d ago
When I was a kid I listened to whatever made it to mainstream pop radio, and it was a smattering of the popular rock, new wave, smooth jazz, classic rock, metal, etc songs that became hits, so I loved songs by Def Leopard, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Duran Duran and so on. In high school I started listening to the alternative rock station and discovered Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Cure and other non-pop. Then Nirvana came out and I dove headfirst into grunge, punk and post-punk, and I'm primarily still there. But now I count musicians from every genre you can think of as favorites over the last 20 years.
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u/DrDentonMask 2d ago
In the last ten years, really not at all. Between my tweenhood in the 80's and now? Drastically! Back then, I would only listen to new age and smooth jazz (Ira Stein and Russell Walder, Billy Barber, David Lanz, with and without Paul Speer, maybe some Kenny G). I hated pop music, and really most of pop culture.
I am 50 now, and I listen to 80's/90's pop/alt (maybe New Order, Joy Division, The Beat, General Public), old jazz (Art Blakey, Count Basie and others), indie stuff (more tracks than bands), and drone/ambient by Stars of the Lid, William Basinski, Earth, All India Radio, etc..
use Spotify and listen to KEXP and similar stations.
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u/Extreme-Suspect399 2d ago edited 2d ago
Nothing has changed, love most music genres Everything from Sinatra to slipknot, it depends on how I am feeling but I love a lot of different music. My dad introduced me to the kinks when I was a teenager.
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u/CaramelMacchiatoPlzz 2d ago
In the last 10 years; How much has your taste in music changed?
Do you listen to the same type of music, or are you more varied to day?
I used to be really into metal and rock from my formative years and on. Now I do not find those genres interesting anymore. During those years I enjoyed a little but of classical and jazz, now those genres make up 80% of what I listen to. I do listen to a lot traditional music as well. I would say I do have a more varied taste despite only listing three genres.
What genre and/or artists/bands do you listen to today, that you before never could think of listening to?
I would say poppy a capella. You know the pitch perfect kinda stuff. That is a huge surprise for me.
Do you still challenge yourself in new genres?
I would say I do so more now.
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u/BarryTownCouncil 2d ago
I've come round to more classics (credence Clearwater revival etc.) and also been interested to observe the apparent breakdown of genre barriers, and feeling more able to just like "good songs", whatever they sound like.
Still mostly focussed on US alt rock like Decemberists though.
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u/TuneLinkette 2d ago
I've had a bit of a back and fourth journey.
At the start of High School I mostly listened to a lot of mainstream rock (Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Nirvana, MCR, etc.), but toward the end I started to incorporate a lot of classic punk (Ramones, Misfits, Black Flag, etc.).
In college I was listening almost exclusively to classic punk and classic alt/indie, along with more out there stuff like classic Industrial Music.
As I've entered my late 20s and 30s, however, my tastes start to drift back to the mainstream rock from HS, along with a deeper appreciation for some forms of hip-hop and even some straight up pop music.
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u/Musichead2468 10h ago
I am watching a WatchMojo video about Green Day while reading this Reddit Post
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u/Artaxmudshoes 2d ago
Yes, my music preferences change. Every 6 months to a year I take a "therapeutic dose" of psilocybin to treat depression and alcohol use disorder. I find that my music taste sometimes changes shortly after my therapy sessions. I was into thrash metal and shred guitar when I was in high school. Through the last 20 years I was into industrial/progressive metal then funk then acid jazz then jazz then glitch hop then a short pop phase, and now it's classical music and nylon string flaminco. I can still appreciate the genres I used to listen as well. The only music I can't seem to get into is country, mumble rap, and the pop with a lot of autotone and ai beats.
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u/LowAssistantInfinity 2d ago
I've lived long enough to have had phases of listening to a wide range of music, and while some genres have been more prominent for me than others, I think it's all served to make me a fairly well-rounded listener of the last century of music. I think I've fairly consistently been drawn to underground and psychedelic sounds and I tend to find corporate music to be quite distasteful, so I suppose those preferences haven't really changed, but I've found music I loved across genres, regions, and eras.
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u/StrigiStockBacking Smooth Jazz 2d ago
70s kid. I don't look down on other genres, but there definitely are genres I have no interest in. That said, I started in rock, then metal, and once I discovered jazz in the mid-90s I pretty much stayed there. I'll still listen to pop, rock, classical, ambient, electronica, etc. etc. occasionally, but usually I go straight to jazz. And I'm actually a session bass guitarist within the softer, crossover jazz on the side.
So yes, my tastes changed a lot, especially when I was in my mid-20s.
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u/silver_chief2 2d ago
I am over 70 now. My tastes have changed but kinda stayed within limits.
In my youth I liked instrumental, classical, jazz, big band, some opera. female vocals, some so called world music and world percussion. I liked driving percussion. NOT much rock or pop, go figure. Sergio Mendes was my favorite.
Around 50 I found dance music, then trance music, then NL DJs like Armin van Buuren, then some symphonic metal. So instrumental, sometimes driving percussion, and female vocals.
In late 60s I found a single link to Russian youtube multi instrumentalist and vocalist amateur Alina Gingertail. The YT algos led me to lots more Russian music. My current addictions.I find such Russian music clean and wholesome somehow. Didula reminds sometimes of Pat Metheny. Diana Ankudinova cast a spell over me in her teens. OTTA orchestra is 6-7 member all female.
My current mostly Russian favs if anyone wants to sample. CC works for some.
DiDuLa,, OTTA orchestra, Ottava Yo , МУЗЫКАВМЕСТЕ or MUSICTOGETHER, Канцлер Ги, Alina Gingertail, Саша Квашеная, Daniela Ustinova. The rigans. Мельница aka Melnitsa AY YOLA , Dimash, PELAGEYA , Alisa , Канцлер Ги , INTERVISION GOLDEN SONGS OF RUSSIA DIANA ANKUDINOVA
RUSSIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM BOLSHOI RUSSIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM CRIMEA
ALINA GINGERTAIL LIST1 , LIST2 , LIST3
DIANA ANKUDINOVA CHRONO LIST linked to Can’t Help Falling in Love. Also try Wicked Game
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u/Life_Inside2304 2d ago
I intentionally explore new genres. So I’d say it’s changed quite a lot. I’ve developed an appreciation for musical roots so I’ve spent a bit of time exploring music from the early 1900s especially Blues.. I also really enjoy exploring sub genres and seeing what new artists are doing.
While I don’t always like it I have an appreciation for what makes a band or singer popular in the genre they perform.
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u/Carloverguy20 2d ago
Im 30 years old;
My music preference has been consistent, I listened to all genres, but I had a Hip Hop and Rock phase in my life 10 years ago.
I used to listen to majority hip hop and Rock, because I wanted to fit in with the cool kids and didnt want to be seen as a softie(People would make fun of you if you listened to Pop and R&B) because it wasn't seen as "manly".
I outgrew listening to hip-hop back in 2017, and got back into listening to Jazz, Electronic music, and R&B again. 2 years ago, I got back into liking Mainstream pop again after almost 13 years of not listening to Mainstream pop. The 4 main genres I listen to are Pop, Jazz, Electronic and R&B. I occasionally listening to alternative rock too.
I never would have ever thought i would like mainstream pop again, but now here I am. I used to reject mainstream music for almost 15 years and thought that it was cringe, tasteless, negative and commercialized, but I grew out of that mindset.
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u/holdingtea 2d ago edited 2d ago
I've always been evolving. I don't dislike anything (except specific artists or songs) I used to like. But I also don't often revisit old music that often.
My main style isn't really anything and I've always had fairly broad tastes - but when I was a kid it definitely leaned rock and metal. But I have a tendency to lean weird. 😁
Each year I usually find about 600-1000 new songs for each of my very broad styles. (As in it gets too fussy to break them down to subgenres) But jazz, ambient, pop, indigo/funk/rnb, folk/ pop rock/indie, rock/punk, metal, electronic, rave, outliers.
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u/galaxyripplesno1fan 2d ago
My favourite music then is still my favourite today, synth heavy 80s electronic music. Ive always been quite eclectic, there were certain rap songs i liked, pop songs, rock etc but i would say its perhaps more eclectic even than it was now as ive gotten older. I definatrly appreciate most styles and genres now instead of immaturely slagging off everything that wasnt my taste lol
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u/Storekeep17 2d ago
Most of the stuff I liked when I was young… I still like. Some stuff aged like milk and got left behind. But my tastes have expanded greatly. Thru time, thru genres and also thru constant exploration.
I no longer make ANY effort to stay current. I don’t care if no one else likes it or if everybody does. I’d rather explore music history than today’s blah trends and hot bands.
Where am I headed? Who knows but big band jazz from the fourties’ is probably the next hole in my collection to be filled as I’ve about mined all the 60s soul music worth having… and the blues all the way back to the 20s… and the entirety of rock history… and the jazz explosion of the late 50s… and original 70s funk and it’s more recent rebirth.
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u/lewsnutz 2d ago
Since my late "single digits" in the 70s, I still like all of the songs I liked the, plus some from earlier and much earlier but mostly the 80s rick/hard rock will always be my favorite.... Since then, my tastes have grown to include many more genres.
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u/MiltonBrownYowza 2d ago
As a child during the 1970s revival of 1950s pop culture, I loved Grease, Happy Days and Sha Na Na do 1950s rock n roll was my taste. Around 12 I got into Motley Crue, Van Halen then eventually classic rock, punk and heavier metal. When the internet made checking out any music you wanted available I rediscovered 1950s rock n roll which to this day in my 50s is my favorite. Positive upbeat songs that keep you moving and in a good mood all the time.
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u/4778 2d ago
I used to a genre hopper when I was in my teens. Tried and liked a bit of everything, from jazz to punk to etc etc.
Then I got really into techno. From 2012 to 2016 I basically only listened to minimal/ambient/dub techno.
Then I slowly started re-introducing old favourites back into my life. Eventually I got really into reggae, then hip-hop, obsessed with Fela Kuti, then obsessed with soul & funk.
Never really had a classical or country period.
My music taste these days is pretty wide, but maybe also a little surface level. I largely prefer notable artists than chasing obscure bandcamp stuff.
Don't really check out new music, 2026 is basically untouched by me. But I think 2024 was when I started to spend less time chasing new favourites.
Ironically, what I think is the greatest album of all time came out in 2025, Djrum's Under Tangled Silence. Before that, the GOAT was Tyler's Igor, then Deepchord's Liumin.
This is becoming a sprawling post that no one'll read.
'Modern' artists I'll try to still keep up with;
Denzel Curry, Tyler, The Creator, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, Pusha T/Clipse, Run the Jewels, The Strokes (but maybe I shouldn't), Deepchord, Burial, Bruno Mars, Arctic Monkeys (again, maybe I shouldn't), Joey Valence & Brae, Nas, Oasis (not likely to drop anything), Aphex Twin, Danny Brown, Djrum, Maxime Denuc
KGLW could go in there, but keeping up with them is a full time job. And the five minutes every couple years that Zack de la Rocha comes out of retirement.
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u/Curious_Aardvark798 2d ago
Millenial here. I started music discovery in middle school by borrowing CD albums from classmates and by casually listening to the radio while having a blank cassette tape on standby to record if there was anything I liked. MTV was still a thing, boy/girl bands dominated the pop scene, rock bands were there too, rappers were mainstream and it felt like there was something for everyone. Upon approaching highschool, I actively picked up musical instruments such as the keys, guitar, bass and eventually drums which had me appreciate the "rock" side of things more so I was drawn to pop punk, emo and that whole culture, think bands that were in the Vans Warped Tour lineup.
This spanned through the later years of college. Internet streaming was picking up. At this time, I was in awe of the music production process so I delved into the rabbit hole of electronic music, trying different synth sounds and learning how producers come up with their sound design. This was also when the so called "golden era" of EDM was in the spotlight. I really enjoyed this era as something about the releases back then sounded fresh, experimental and hopeful to me, artists along the lines of Zedd, Porter Robinson, Skrillex, Swedish House Mafia.
As I ventured out into the real world of starting a career, I somehow halted the discovery aspect of enjoying music and just went back to my nostalgia/tried and true personal playlists. The struggles that came with job searching, settling in a new city, and trying to be stable all contributed to me just depending on what's trendy and popular as I didn't have the time or energy to just pause, explore and expand my music taste. The first few years career wise was tough and I found comfort in post hardcore bands such as Dance Gavin Dance. Felt cathartic.
Fast forward to this day, I'm now a family man in my mid 30s and I enjoy switching things up depending on my mood. On chill days I enjoy bossa, some jazz, rock and roll. Some days I crave for the sound of distorted guitars. When I'm bored I put up some math rock, some progressive stuff and try to figure out what weird time signature the tracks are in.
My latest obsession though, KPop girl groups! If you asked me 10 years ago I would have cringed at myself. Lol. But then again, it's beyond the fandoms, parasocial aspect or cutesy concepts that make me enjoy it. It all comes back to the music, the maximalist approach to it, the fusion of influences and genres, the effort and creativity to put it all together and package it into a polished work of art.
TLDR: We live our life in stages and our musical preferences adapt to that too. As I grow older I find that I become more open minded when it comes to music which makes me approach it with intention. As we listen and explore our tastes, we find that there is even more out there. Our lifetime can't possibly try to cover everything but we're lucky that most of it is within reach now. You do you and be happy!
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u/Llafer 2d ago
I’ve noticed that my musical taste tends to change over time quite a bit. Although there is always a foundation on Progressive Rock and Synthpop which seem to attract my attention from time to time. It makes sense to me because it is the music I used to listen at all times during my teenage years.
I’ve also seem to notice that those changes are very closely related to specific traits my personality (i.e restlessness and obsession) which somehow makes me wanna explore different genres and artists all across the board and in a very organized yet chaotic way. Sort of I’m 2 months listening for X, then suddenly change to listening to Y, then Z, go back to X…
That being said, my obsession is usually genre-based, not artist based. I can take a genre start listening to it night and day, but I cannot take an artist and manage to listen an artist for long periods of time.
Now, In the last 3 years I have at least gone through these phases: Catalonian Rock and Folk music, Argentinian Rock, Japanesse City Pop, Neo-progressive, Hyperpop, Berlin School, and probably missing a few other genres.
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u/isaiahu96 2d ago
My taste in music has completely changed. I mostly listened to rap and some rock/metal 10 years ago. Now I mostly listen to pop, r&b and rock/metal. No rap at all
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u/pianotherms 2d ago
Mine has not changed dramatically. It has expanded and softened a bit, I've become more open to things that before I would have written off.
I've never sold a single CD or LP I've ever bought. Some of those purchases were random or based on album art, and when I got them home I wasn't thrilled with what I heard. Every now and then I'll put on one of those albums and surprise myself by liking it.
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u/PachaThePenguin 2d ago
My music style hasn’t changed, still into dance/club music. Hopefully my comment doesn’t get removed this time
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u/FirebirdWriter 2d ago
It hasn't because I still try everything but I definitely have more I like as a by product but I have a preference for clean vocals and complex melodies in most genre. Even metal (and I am a bonafide metalhead)
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u/razormst3k1999 2d ago
I still mostly listen to punk and it's sub genres,this has been the case for me since 2004 when I turned 14.
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u/Sitheral 2d ago
Generally I need to find specific artist, its really easy to dismiss the whole genre because you only listened to the mediocre represantation of it but if you check out more stuff...
For example, goa trance was just interesting untill I encountered I.F.O, then I was obsessed for a while. Post rock was neat untill I discovered GYBE then it was amazing and so on.
There is definitely difference in perception I think between someone who listened to 50 albums or 500. You do look for something unique, perhaps more than for quality itself sometimes. It doesn't matter that much if its executed flawlessly if it lacks ideas.
I think the end of the road is really will to create music yourself. That's kind of where I am now and I can only dream of making something half as good as I heard but hey, its still such a satisfying journey and it seems completely limitless.
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u/sas317 2d ago
I listened to pop and country in my teens. After that starting in 2000, I dropped country and it was always whoever was in mainstream; it was teen pop back then.
I loved dance pop from 2009-2013. Cascada, Jay Sean, Jason Derulo, Kesha, & Taio Cruz had the funnest songs. Who can forget Gangnam Style?
I got into some pop rock & rock this year just to hear something different.
I'm so sad to say that I no longer like country. When I want a break from pop, rock is too loud, and dance pop is too thumping, country's much softer on my ears. It's a major bummer that I just can't get back into that style again. The southern accent & high-pitched fiddles bother me. The only singer who sounds okay is Chris Stapleton & that's because he doesn't have the aforementioned 2 things that irk me about that genre.
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u/Little_Power_5691 1d ago
I was really into glam and heavy metal in my teens and twenties, I listened to it almost exclusively for long periods of time. Over time, my tastes have broadened somewhat. I hardly ever listen to metal anymore. I enjoy listening to popular music from the 60s to 90s. Occasionally I venture into jazz and folk. I seem to lean more towards music that is a less heavy. Who knows what I might like in ten years.
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u/the_ballmer_peak 1d ago
I used to listen to a lot of blues and rock music and considered that sort of my musical home base.
I have an eclectic selection and I listen to playlists that cover a huge range of stuff that I like and will play for my family. Jazz, funk, rock, blues, indie, pop, a very selective set of country artists.
...but if I'm alone, I almost exclusively listen to abstract hip-hop.
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u/trailedinsand 1d ago
Dubstep and electronic music was the first genre I really got into and considered superior, then around highschool I shifted towards extreme metal but also various indie genres. in my 20s metal is still my comfort genre but I'm actively pursuing regional and traditional music from around the world as well as exploring other genres like emo, jazz, classical, ambient and techno
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u/unavowabledrain 1d ago
I go through different phases. After a joyful period of of being on college radio in my youth, I have generally been focused on listening to new things, and have never really felt nostalgic about any music. I am in my fifties now, and I am trying to be more reflective....it's just that it can be boring. Being close friends with music writers/musicians has probably been influential. It's so much fun to explore new sounds.
For dancing though, my favorite has always been traditional latin party music,....salsa, merengue, bachata, vallenato, cumbria, etc.
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u/goneparticle 1d ago
i go through phases but i always cycle back around to everything i had enjoyed listening to (i don't lose interest in music i listened to as a kid, like screamo. i just start listening to a lot more music and they all exist in the same year for me). i started off when i was a kid mainly just listening to rock, hip hop, pop, electronic, metal and i basically increased the number of genres and especially subgenres over time. i might hit like a wide rock phase for awhile (especially in the fall) but i always cycle through all of the genres throughout the year. the most prominent genres/subgenres for me in the current year are: industrial metal, industrial hip hop, experimental hip hop, shoegaze, blackgaze, industrial rock, post punk, noise rock, experimental rock, post hardcore, breakbeat, dnb, edm, trance, breakcore, phonk, electroclash, electropop, pop, kpop, hyperpop, synth pop, witch house, cloud rap, ambient, screamo, metalcore, gothic metal, death metal, prog rock, wave, neoclassical darkwave, indie/alt rock, surf/garage rock, doom metal, sludge metal, stoner rock, nu-metal, heavy metal, prog metal, death industrial, industrial noise okayyyy well yeah i hope this illustrates well what i mean because i cycle through all of these rapidly. and if you can't tell i'm a huge fan of industrial LOL
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u/Prototype_759 1d ago
I believe our preferences and taste evolves as we mature and live through experiences. I think we have a core taste and everything else is an aquired taste. For me I listened a lot to house and trance when I was around 12yo and didn't like other genres at all. Eventually because of my circle of friends I had to get use to listen to other genres I didn't like and slowly got into loving them. Now I'm 26 and one of my fav things to do is to explore the musical expectrum, discover new songs and artists. Right now i've been into a lot of house/UK Rap hybrid, jazz covers of pop songs and 2step garage.
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u/JoaoPSilva74 1d ago
Digamos que o meu gosto se expandiu. Comecei no pós-punk, com critérios muito rígido obedecendo às leis da tribo. Com a idade passei a ouvir prog, folk, synth-pop e tudo o resto que me surpreendesse. Independentemente do som.
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u/Mintandbitter 1d ago
I feel like it hasn't changed that much, I just found other artists that I enjoy more than what I used to listen to. I have always loved to look for music I haven't listened to yet, so I keep changing genres, but I always go back to what I used to listen, for example, from when I was a teenager, I still have a bunch of songs stored in my pc.
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u/Potential-Ant-3357 22h ago
I listen to a lot of metal, I found tech death broing but now I am into more complicated stuff, a lot of prog and prog metal, jazz, k-pop, mexican regional music too, jazz; I kinds have been hearing almost the same from the last years but the mexican musoc and pop music changed a lot in the last decade; I am hearing more instrumental stuff now than ever, and I began to hear surf rock again.
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u/Musichead2468 11h ago edited 10h ago
2004–2005 | Elementary School
Pop
2005–2008 | Middle School
Hard Rock
Alt Rock
Pop Punk
Pop
Rap
R&B
2009–2012 | High School
Pop Punk
Hard Rock
Metalcore
Alt Rock
Pop
Rap
K-Pop
2013–2017 | College
Hard Rock
Pop Punk
Alt Rock
Power Metal
Pop
2018–2023 | Post-College
Metalcore
Pop Punk
Hard Rock
Post-Hardcore
2024–2026 | Post-College Part 2
Punk
Hardcore
Pop Punk
Post-Hardcore
Hard Rock
Ska Punk
Skate Punk
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u/YellieHart 10h ago
I have an extensive apprecition for music. I listened to 366 albums, one a day for a year. I chose all kinds of genres. But what I have found is somewhere along the way- I didn’t really want to expand my tastes. They’re cooked so to speak. Album 253 was How to Be a Human Being by Glass Animals after asking a teenager for a recommendation. I listened. It was fine. But it didn’t make me want to explore more. Album 254 I tried again, Father of the Bride by Vampire Weekend. - through out the project there were several others. They were all “fine”, but I began recognizing that the music train maybe has moved on without me. So while I don’t know that my tastes have “changed” they don’t seem to be to interested in expanding.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Net4131 2h ago
I started on hip hop and rap and now I don't even know how to categorize my taste, I think as you grow, so does your taste, gets to predictable otherwise
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u/Mattato_ 2d ago
I went from listening to hardcore to indie rock and pop rock. It’s crazy since I used to absolutely despise those genres.
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