Memes

I listened to exclusively pop radio country, contemporary christian music of the 90s, and classical.

I'll still indulge a little outlaw country now and then, but now it's a wide and eclectic variety of everything from black metal to experimental electronica, from Croatian street musicians to African folk songs, and nearly anything else someone suggests to me. Much of the music I liked as a teen now gets stuck in my head as part of my trauma.

Starve your curious kid of taste and when they're an adult, they may want a bite of everything.

This may be why my sister is into competitive band ‘music’ (I mean the sort schools do, with lots of brass and drums).

I just can’t fathom it. I worked in an instrument shop, and it all sounds like if a van plowed into our stock room to me.

I still have love for 3 Dollar Bill Yall and Life is Peachy. But I don't touch numetal as a genre at all anymore. Once I started to get into Staind and Disturbed or just hearing Nookie.. no thanks. An older friend introduced me to Ska and Punk and I'm so glad he did.

I absolutely still listen to the same music I listened to at 14. There was a period in my young adulthood where I absolutely hated all popular music. However, that period passed. I'm now in my mid-30s and find even those songs enjoyable. I don't know if it's maturity, the improvement in my mental health, having access to anti-depressants, or a mix of the above.

I did for a long time but have since moved on to listening to pretty much anything.

I stumbled upon I checked your cellphone by Otoboke Beaver. Maybe there is some resemblance to I-E-A-I-A-I-O by System of a Down. Maybe the authors in the screenshot peaked musically at 14. I stumble upon new great music all the time.

Some of the music I liked in my teens still sounds great. But definitely not all of it. Most of the music I love now would have been completely unavailable to me in the 70s and 80s. It took streaming music and algorithms to introduce me to the music of West Africa. So many amazing musicians in that part of the world, and I never even knew it existed.

I listen to stuff from the early 90s to remember my youth, for instance the first school trip I listened to a tape with Twenty 4 Seven - Street Moves when I got homesick.

I can't even listen to the music I liked 2 years ago. There's this brazillian genre called funk that I really like mainly because it's keep evolving pretty fast.

I feel like I’d be embarrassed to still listen to the same music I listened to at 14. 14 year old me didn’t have terrible taste, but goddamn there has been so much music since. I’m nearing 40 and I’m still finding new and more interesting or challenging music to listen to

Nope! I listened to rap and metal when I was in school. Now, I listen only to Colundi.

This take is for people that primarily listen to pop music (of any genre, pop rock, pop punk. Stuff that is on the radio). Which is a huge amount of people. But it is unsurprising that on a niche community-based website like Lemmy, where a lot of people probably have an artistic tinge to them, that a bunch of you have a much more involved and active music discovery experience.

Nope. What I listened to at 14 is whatever was in the radio on the car, usually oldies. Which I never really cared for. I didn't care about or start developing my own musical tastes until my 20s.

Tbh I don't think I actually listened to music at that age, of my own accord rather than hearing what someone else around had on anyway.