How has your music taste changed over the past few years?

[Nicola]

What the title says really.

How has your music taste changed over the past few years and why do you think it has changed?

Obviously some people may not have changed at all, but still say if it hasn't!

[Minstrels]

I remember when I first started high school I used to listen to that DJ Cammy stuff... Then year 9 it was Clubland and hating anything remotely 'rocky' then year 10 it was general rubbish, year 11 I sort of opened up a bit then last year it was 'indie' (hate that description) with a mix of dubstep and other stuff. Oh and then I discovered Cudi about nine months ago and I fell in love. So I guess I'm now into a range of stuff from 'indie', 'underground' dubstep/club stuff (no **** Clubland stuff) and hip hop (also hate that description). Really into finding up and coming artists though, some of the stuff they're producing right now (hip hop) is seriously good... bright future for that. No major mainstream stuff apart from some bands though purlease.

[mr.tom]

gone from all the mainstream pop and rock stuff to different types of folk and a lot of alternative. Some indie too although more recently they seem to be changing the indie genre.

[Minstrels]

I remember when I first started high school I used to listen to that DJ Cammy stuff... Then year 9 it was Clubland and hating anything remotely 'rocky' then year 10 it was general rubbish, year 11 I sort of opened up a bit then last year it was 'indie' (hate that description) with a mix of dubstep and other stuff. Oh and then I discovered Cudi about nine months ago and I fell in love. So I guess I'm now into a range of stuff from 'indie', 'underground' dubstep/club stuff (no **** Clubland stuff) and hip hop (also hate that description). Really into finding up and coming artists though, some of the stuff they're producing right now (hip hop) is seriously good... bright future for that. No major mainstream stuff apart from some bands though purlease.
Oh **** yeah and I went through a grime stage in year 8/9 too. ****.

[Neversoft]

Back when I was a young teen I was into all the classic rock kinda stuff and my taste in music was greatly influenced by my cousin. Now however I rarely listen to any and find a lot of it sounds the same and it's boring since all of it is old and there is nothing new to look forward to. However, because of my interest in classic rock I got into other types of rock and a lot of oldies, many of which I still love today. After the rock phase I went into an electronic phase where I was into trance, techno, electro and stuff like that and all that time my interest in classical music, orchestras and piano pieces was also growing.

These days my favourite genres are classical, electronic and rock (sorry, I don't keep up with all these sub-genres, but my favourite bands on average seem to be in the symphonic rock, new wave, electronic and classical genres) and my favourite bands and artists include Nightwish (absolute favourite), Depeche Mode, The Birthday Massacre, Ludovico Einaudi, Andy Hunter, Enya, Moby and Immediate Music, but I am very open to almost anything. Perhaps because of my great love for films I have also become hugely interested in film scores and composers and very much enjoy listening to the works of Joe Hisaishi.

Glad I don't like classic rock much anymore and very happy I chose the route of classical music as it has a certain magic that can not be touched by another genre. Unfortunately it is so very unappreciated by todays youth. These days I am also into a lot more foreign music, particularly Japanese and German and I still love listening to older bands, particularly those from England, along with American artists like Paul Simon, and that is how my taste in music has changed in a nutshell!

[Judas]

in like 2003/04/05 i used to listen to like mainstream rap music from america like 50 cent, eminem, missy elliott that kind of thing but now since ive opened up to so many more genres. now i listen to all sorts, rock, electronic, rap, indie bands, and my gcse music course has introduced me to a lot of classical music, i particularly like pieces from the romantic and classical eras. mozart, beethoven, bach, tchaikovsky etc... cant be a true 'fan of music' if you dont appreciate where it all started. recently ive been listening to a lot of elvis, buddy holly and etta james too, magical.

but my one true love will always be for pop music :D ... not the manufactured bubblegum crap kind though (yes there is a difference and im not even going to try and explain myself again :P)

[Conservative,]

3 years ago I didn't listen to music.

2 years ago I was into a lot of rock.

Last year pop.

Now - rnb hip hip & Rap.

[Plebings]

previously listened to pop
6 years ago mostly rock and disregarding pop as talentless people and blabbering on about how 'OH WHY DOES EVERYONE LIKE POP GOD ALL THEM CHAVS'
3 years ago mostly gathered my own music taste that's probably based on what is unpopular and therefore makes it cool but also makes it incredibly cliche, therefore making it uncool.
I laugh at the 6 year ago me 8)

[Rixion]

used to listen to a lot of pop and dance, nowadays the dance is now electronic rock:) plus post-hardcore, indie, alternative and punk rock for that genre.
also listen to the occasional rap song.

[matt$]

i've been blasting ghetto music since 2k1

but now i like a little bit of everything except screamo, trance, pop.

[Special]

hasn't changed really apart from now i listen to dance music, bassline & r&b as before it used to be more pop music

[FlyingJesus]

Pretty drastic for me tbh, I had a neighbour that doted on me like all of my young life and she got me into Bon Jovi from literally like 6 months old, so that was the base of my music taste for a long long time. All I really listened to in my early years other than radio pop of course which I think all kids listen to whatever era they're growing up was Bon Jovi and Savage Garden, then I randomly got introduced to Black Sabbath by this chavvy kid (townies we called them BACK IN MY DAY) which was odd but yeah got into them big time for a few years during middle school, then high school I got into The Misfits in a huge way before my first brush with rap through Insane Clown Posse, whom I can say looking back I totally fanboyed for a while.. oh to be young and foolish again.

Wasn't really until college that I went from liking single artists/groups to expanding into a genre more openly, and that happened with hip hop and rnb which remain the absolute core of my music now. I really do think that rap is something that a lot of (white middle class) people find they need to sort of mature into, growing out of the "can't spell crap without rap lolololol" stages and actually exploring it and finding how diverse and powerful it actually can be, not to mention how much better it often is lyrically overall than other genres with more conventional songwriting styles.

All that said, I'm listening to Britney right now, Christina Aguilera is my 2nd most listened to artist in the last 12 months (after Nas) and I have every Mariah Carey studio album, so the more pop side of rnb is also obviously a big thing for me.

[samsaBEAR]

Every musical taste development I've had has been due to people on this forum, ha my life is so sad.
When I joined I listened to like Linkin Park and Green Day and those sort of Kerrang! bands, then I started listening to Indie quite religiously for like just under a year. Then a user here got me onto Post-Hardcore, and from then I started getting into heavier music which is where I'm at now. In between those I've liked other stuff like grime and dubstep and the like, but those previous three I mentioned are the 'main' ones.

[Panda]

i didn't really have a taste in music during early teens, but later i went from pop to rock within a couple years and then for the last 4 years i've listened to electronic mostly and it hasn't changed since

[Ajthedragon]

I like old rock now. :P

[Jamesy]

It's gone a lot softer. I used to listen to a lot more heavy rock than I do now. I've also extended back in time more to older music, as well as more alternative genres rather than just "rock". I think it's just changed as I've matured and mellowed out :)

[Shar]

I go through stages with music really, I never stick to listening to one genre. I used to love pop when I was younger :$ and then I moved of to indie and R&B and rap and now I've been really into dance music lately.

[Jordan]

Loads, I hardly use to ever listen to music. But when I went to secondary school, I started to take an interest in pop

[Nikki]

When I was in year 5 and 6, I used to love the music from holidays like that "chocolatey song", then in secondary school i just listened to dance music because is did dance so much. Now I listen to everything, apart from rock.

Oh, I had a period when i just loved s club 7 and busted! ;)

[Keri?!]

I used to listen to alot of erm, well mainstream music and over the years I've just gradually got myself into some heavy rock, I also like indie stuff aswell as electronica but the basics of my music is rock music x]

[surfer]

It went from

Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Linkin Park - The Blackout, Yellowcard, Enter Shikari - Bring Me The Horizon, A Day To Remember, Escape The Fate - Queens Of The Stone Age, Muse, The Strokes - Two Door Cinema Club, Arcade Fire, The Cribs - Foals, The Flaming Lips, Doherty.

[lPinoy]

I used to listen to the charts a lot, didn't really mind what it was - pop, r&b, soul... but I'm now more into underground, grime/garage, and classic hip hop. I haven't actually listened to the charts in a while now but I still like to listen to other genres mainly R&B. Although the majority of my iTunes is made up of the genres stated above, I still don't mind the odd 'Bruno Mars' or 'The Script'.

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Wasn't really until college that I went from liking single artists/groups to expanding into a genre more openly, and that happened with hip hop and rnb which remain the absolute core of my music now. I really do think that rap is something that a lot of (white middle class) people find they need to sort of mature into, growing out of the "can't spell crap without rap lolololol" stages and actually exploring it and finding how diverse and powerful it actually can be, not to mention how much better it often is lyrically overall than other genres with more conventional songwriting styles.


I actually couldn't have said it better.

[Eoin247]

I used to only listen to chart music. However nowdays my range of music has widely broadened. I listen to many genres, music thats brand new and music thats fifty years old or more.

[Sharon]

i started listening to korean stuff it's GREAT jen will agreeeee