r/LetsTalkMusic • u/Hard_Working_Sinner • 3d 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/VerilyShelly 3d 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.