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yipjumpmusic:
Got this idea for the thread from the "how young is too young" thread.  So, people's musical taste, do you think they are predisposed to a certain kind no matter what they are raised around or that if they grow up around a certain kinds of music they will pick one of those and adopt it as their favorite, especially if someone tries to influence their taste?  Obviously some people have varied tastes and also it's not that much a black and white thing...

I would have to say myself that people are simply exposed to certain kinds of music and then pick the best/what they feel most in touch with and listen to that until they discover (by another's action or their own) better (to them)music, unless that music they like best at the time happened to be the best of what they would like.  Also though what music someone would like probably would only be stable when they reach full maturity/self awareness.  I wonder about the people who simply don't like music though, thinking that maybe a few of them just never heard the music that was right for them but that would play a small factor in this issue so no matter.  While I feel like that covered it, I am curious what other people think and maybe someone can simply explain it more articulately and cover all the holes I missed in my hasty post.  Want to bring in the socio-economical factor?  Want to just pop in the thread and say, [spam]Who cares why people like what they like?[/spam], you can do that too.  Or maybe we can never know anyways and only think we understand the rationality of why we like what we like while others like what they like in music.  Why do people listen to music anyways?  It's just organized sounds, but that's for another thread.

Robbo:
I don't know what causes some people's tastes. Some seems just to be what they grow up with and what they're exposed to.

But then I didn't like music at all, nothing of it, before I heard Metal. All the stuff my parents listens to, my friends etc, I didnt like. And none of it was opening stuff to Metal either.

There's various comments on people you can make. The fact that some people will just follow on with whats infront of them and never question. Other people just seem to have things formed in their mind about it I guess.

It may be that over activities influence musical taste. Eg, Metalheads starting out as Nerds and liking Metal when the find it. Or finding Metal through things like music vidoes from the net.

Also, from another thread, I noted something. That the Metalheads of then board tended to be self discovered music fans, while people that like Indie generally got into it through the influence of friends and parents.

I think the whole idea of people basically being musical brainwashed can happen, if things are forced onto them. Like, what does every "urban kid from the ghetto" like Rap music? crude example, but I hope you get the point.

Addius:
Even though I believe that it's mostly based upon what one is used to listen to, there is always something in a persons personality that will sway him somewhat. If not all the way from one genre to another then from one end of the chosen genre to the other.

I'll take myself as an example. After going through a lot of different musical genres I've come to the conclussion that I myself have this affinity for classical music. This in turn have influenced the genre I listen to the most, namely metal. So instead of listening to most metal I tend to stray towards those bands that, erhm, well sounds a bit more like classical music, hehe.

heretic:
i think we're all gonna start saying the same thing over and over again, but at risk of redundancy: here's my two cents,
i think a lot of people just listen to what thier friends, parents or sibilings listen to, at least until they develop a real preference. then they usually stray towards what they like better, assuming someone they know listens to it. this stray usually doesn't cut out old turns, just suppliments them. as people grow thier music taste varies as thier personality changes. i know i was introduced to modest mouse by a friend at band practice, and that was the start of my indie-tude. before that i was much more metal/punk/reggae because that was what i liked out of what i was exposed to. indie fits me better, but i couldn't really like it before i got a stepping stone from a friend and got self-motivated.
i think people have intrinsic music taste because their personality is uniqly their own, but, like your personality, the people and events in your life influence your musical tastes greatly. luckily, for me i've always had enough to keep me happy, and musical stagnation ended after sophmore year of highschool.

also, i think people develop thier musical tastes much more quickly when they happen upon the "right" genre for them. they care more about hearing more and broadening thier horizons. the people who have listened to the same 12 CDs for a year or two simply haven't discovered the genre that makes them care. either that or they hate music and i hate them :)

KharBevNor:
I used to listen to a lot of classical music and rock, if I listened to anything before I 'got into metal'.

Interestingly, though I made the discovery myself, I did have a good friend who had just got in to proper metal himself to nurture me, suggests bands and whatnot. He's the thing that probably saved me from ever really having a major mallcore phase whilst I was dicking around trying to find the real stuff.

Now days though, I listen to huge amounts of folk and folk-influenced stuff, which I think in some way comes from my parents: at least my dad's habit of strumming folk songs on his old Gibson semi-acoustic and my mum's habit of playing me almost unwholesome amounts of Bob Dylan probably didn't hurt my current liking of folk.

But as for the nerd thing: yeah. I was, and am, a huge sci-fi and fantasy nerd. When I first heard 'The Battle of Evermore' and 'The Immigrant' song by Led Zeppelin I was like 'ZOMG! They're singing about ring-wraiths and vikings, this rules!'. Then I discovered metal, and it was 'ZOMG! EVERYONE'S singing about ring-wraiths and vikings!' It's like there was always some element, heaviness, darkness, vikings, whatever, that was missing from all the music, mainly my parents stuff, that I had listened to. Metal just felt so right. And on top of that, when I was about 15 I was of the opinion that vampires were probably the coolest thing ever. Probably contributed to why I liked Cradle of Filth so much.

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