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1up
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Hi!
Have you ever wondered why peoples taste in music are so extremely different? How one person can really enjoy listening to death metal while someone else can't get enough of cheezy christan songs? (sorry fans, no offense) It's a very interesting question.
To try to sort this question out the natural science way, one might argue that the music taste of each and every one of us is determined by heritage and environment factors. But we need more detail to it.
Obviously, you can't like a genre if you haven't heard such a song before. But sometimes when you hear a song in a totaly new genre you might dislike it at first, but then it will grow on you after a while. This might have something to do with familiarity.
There seems to be time factors here aswell. If the music later in life sounds to unfamiliar to the music you listened to when you were young, then you often dislike it.
Talking from personal experience there also seems to be the factor of age and/or mental maturity. When I was 7 years old I didn't find jazz interesting at all, but now at the age of 23 it's a very interesting genre.
Schooling and IQ might also have a correlation with what kind of music you like. It might be a bit far to say, but I think there seems to be a correlation between for example IQ and the liking of classical music.
Culture also seems to be a factor. We in the west part of the world have trouble liking other kind of musical scales than the one we are familiar. A song from the east of the world with 1/4 tone steps repeated several minutes makes us tired and bored and perhaps annoyed, but those people playing it really likes it.
That's a few of my thoughts about factors affecting what music a person like.
What do you think are the most important reasons to liking or disliking some kind of music from another?
Sincerely,
1up
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FeralCode
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how about fashion? and / or you can call (main)stream... you tend to like what you get million times. not only music
obviously music means different thing to a musician and different to a musically not educated listener. i think it relates to your educational and iq factor...
if you ask me, im always motivated to listen to something new... 'new and fresh' is important in my life... i rarely listen to 2 years old songs, im more interested in todays music, even if it is crap |
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1up
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Doriath wrote on 24 Feb. (20:45) :
how about fashion? and / or you can call (main)stream... you tend to like what you get million times. not only music |
Yes, this is about familiarity and culture. "It's a safe choice and you won't be let down" so to speak. Getting an identity and belonging somewhere too...
obviously music means different thing to a musician and different to a musically not educated listener. i think it relates to your educational and iq factor...
if you ask me, im always motivated to listen to something new... 'new and fresh' is important in my life... i rarely listen to 2 years old songs, im more interested in todays music, even if it is crap |
This seems to be something about personal preference. Some people love going deep and sticking to one thing, while others (like me) goes from one thing to another and yet another genre (also viable for interest areas in life).
Why not check out my latest chiptune "All My Circuits" (HiFi-style)?
http://www.ctgmusic.com/ctg/song.php?id=2727
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Sagal
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Hmmm... 1up, you told about the connection between IQ and classical music. I like this genre, but some compositions are sooooooooo boring. Why do you think that classical music is different than any other genre? It's about your own personal feelings what kind of music do you prefer. I like to listen to many kinds of music, and I'm really open to them from death metal through claasics finishing at dance tracks. You don't have to like all techno racks, but I'm really sure, that some of them will sound nice to you thought you prefer already mentioned in your monologue jazz. I don't like all classical vibes, but that doesn't mean that my personal IQ is low (which is not  ). I just want to say that classical music is only genre, and is not better or worse, than any other type. Anyway I agree with you, that your taste is being shaped and formed throughout many years. The environment you live in has very strong potential in it. But it's about your personal feelings, and while you grow up to be a mature male you form your taste yourself. If you understood anything from this shit you are really good...  
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Whirloop
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1up wrote on 24 Feb. (20:28) :
Schooling and IQ might also have a correlation with what kind of music you like. It might be a bit far to say, but I think there seems to be a correlation between for example IQ and the liking of classical music.
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I would say not, but anyways... 
It's really a hard question to answer. I know that people asociate feelings and memories to sertain tunes. Maby even genres.
I can take my own taste as an example.
Electronic musik in all forms (mostly progressive of melodic trance though;))
When listening to it, i asociates it with dancing (wich i like very much) but also the thought of people that unite and enjoy something togheter.
Also if i dig deeper into the subgenres and listen to goa or psy trance, they makes me think about everything that is mystical (always been fashinated by mystical stuff ever since i was a small kid)
I can moslty accept stuff that sounds "new", stuff with sounds that i haven't heard before.
I also want to add that music i don't like is nowadays rnb and hiphop.
I mostly asociates those genres with cheesy or agressive tunes that the only message they bring is about power, money, cars, drugs or chicks (lots of them in minimal chothes  )
One thing i also don't like with hiphop is what it have turned into nowadays.
In the begining it was a way for people to give their message and show their situation to the world. Now it is just a way to make money (imo!)
I know that my description is not a correct one (mostly) to describe these genres but then again, it's all what you asociate the music with |
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Sagal
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1up
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Sagal wrote on 24 Feb. (21:10) :
Hmmm... 1up, you told about the connection between IQ and classical music. I like this genre, but some compositions are sooooooooo boring. Why do you think that classical music is different than any other genre? It's about your own personal feelings what kind of music do you prefer. I like to listen to many kinds of music, and I'm really open to them from death metal through claasics finishing at dance tracks. You don't have to like all techno racks, but I'm really sure, that some of them will sound nice to you thought you prefer already mentioned in your monologue jazz. I don't like all classical vibes, but that doesn't mean that my personal IQ is low (which is not ). I just want to say that classical music is only genre, and is not better or worse, than any other type. Anyway I agree with you, that your taste is being shaped and formed throughout many years. The environment you live in has very strong potential in it. But it's about your personal feelings, and while you grow up to be a mature male you form your taste yourself. If you understood anything from this shit you are really good...
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This thing about classical music and IQ seems to have pulled a few strings. This was an example and the thread isn't supposed to be about that really. But I can answer that I believe that IQ (a higher one) have a positive correlation with for classical music (which is one example I know something about). It can so be that music has to be intricate for certain people not to be boring. An analogy would be a simple song comoposed for kids. Okey, everything is so simple, so even if the melody is good, the song is still boring becuase you can, by experience, predict what the next tone in the melody is going to be and there are no hidden treasures to be found in the song. I ones heard about a person who could listen to several pieces at a time and still enjoy it very much. He separated each song from the other and got mega-stimulation so to speak.  The structure in classical music is often complicated and thus interesting for a certain kind of people.
For those who think I'm a jerk trying to be smart let's just say that I enjoy music for cartoons very much and also love chiptunes. That should drop my IQ and status down to the sewers or something.
Why not check out my latest chiptune "All My Circuits" (HiFi-style)?
http://www.ctgmusic.com/ctg/song.php?id=2727
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." |
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Gopher
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Careful, now you've insulted the chip-writers! (j/k :o)
I kind of know what you mean about classical music though; I remember they did a study of the effects of listening to classical, when compared to say rock, with kids during an exam, and it came out favourable. Personally, I think that music taste has nothing to do with intelligence, but more to do with culture and environmental effects, and personality. I find some classical compositions boring, and some I find very good. But then, the same goes with rock too.
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AimeeB
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Classical isnt all as complicated as people make out, simply it doesent have to be. for instance i found one time while listening to Samuel Barberra's 'adagio for strings' (no not the remix ) that without me realising it, that it had brought a tear to my eye when it came to one of its minor climaxes (Side B of william orbit's release).
to be honest, i think the thing that matters the most when it comes to favouring over certain genres is one of the following matters the most:
-- The Power (and in someways rebellion) of the music
-- The Melody Detail (lowest meaning pop or similar)
-- The Sexual Feeling Of A Track (one of the biggest aspects)
-- Singing
i think we do this cus even though we may feel as if its required to be different sometimes, that having interest in something popular is sometimes a secret wish too.
thats my opinion hope it helped. |
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Kevin Zhan
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| uh hybrid... sexual feeling? haha explain please |
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