I have been wondering for a long time what role your own music taste is playing in a person’s life. Where do certain preferences come from? Does it have a deeper meaning why human hears what human hears? Why do we like what we like?
Without too direct reference to a concert review that I was able to create last year, namely about a certain Taylor Swift, I would like to deal with why this will certainly give me a great musician, like many of her colleagues, leaves me so cold. I still have the latent need to justify me after the chewing hatred, which I collected for the fact that the Swift is “just not my thing”.
I want to prove that I can’t do anything for my opinion and have entered a small research tunnel.
And as I was pleased to find: As is well known, it cannot be argued about taste – but research.
Sun ra fails
There is indications that the musical taste is already formed in childhood and, together with your own binding behavior and several other patterns, is irrevocably solidified like a piece of sound that you get out of a oven.
Of all people, Deezer made a study and found that the musical taste actually formed when we are around ten years old. Also (but you are welcome to do that yourself here read), this study is about the fact that parents naturally to the children Your music want to press the eye, and if you ask me that the “musical diversity is very important to me”, that is a lie.
I know too many parents who have not been stressed by everyday life to put on a round of Sun Ra at home at home after the children have gradually become boring at Bach. What I experience are parents who (definitely right) turn on at home, what they like and give the children to the children by shining in their own faces: If you like this, we two should also belong together in this matter . So the children like “Adele”, what the heck, there are worse things.
Bulgarian women’s choirs or Michael Jackson?
I didn’t have it easy in this regard at home. Wait, I have to put it differently: Of course I had a lot of fun to let off steam over the music running with us and to Bonden with my parents. For example, we had a swivel armchair on which I had my little sister To music from my mother’s band Turned until it then ran like a drunk in front of the door frame. Fun Times!
Only – this cosmos was above all that, its own cosmos.
Out there, at home with the other children, no political folk rock was heard, no Irish folk, no Bulgarian women’s choirs, no chattering fins and not the Penguin Café Orchestra.
I still remember visiting the family with friends and there was Michael Jackson. I liked the music, but for me she represented much more than her harmonious connections and the good beats. I somehow felt forced into a world of plastic, seduced by such a blatant melodies and such an aggressive lecture that I was hypnotized and that with hypnosis, well, I didn’t like it even then.
Freak folk/folk freak
When I sat on a couch in a treatment room many years later and my psychologist asked me if I was bullied at school, I said that it was sad, and she asked myself sensitively what I would have had for “characteristics” Had made myself a target, such as braces, lots of body weight, a rash? No, I sometimes only had such a vest from sheepskin, and I heard Irish Folk, otherwise I was actually quite normal … but then the therapist was already pulling her brews up and thinking, I was already seeing, they were a freak .
However, the political rock and all this “world music”, as was still called at the time, did not mean that I did not like the Spice Girls a little later, which would be another column. The Spice Girls saved me on several levels because they met my musical preference roughly somewhere in my brain and brought me together with the peers.
The Taylor Swift effect
Can that also be the Taylor Swift effect, did I also stumble here? Does Taylor act as a harmonious browner, in the very literal, musical sense? Do people agree on these simple harmonies at their concerts and everyone will become one? With my messed up early childhood programming, I can only pale with envy.
Incidentally, there is also a study that wants to have found which binding behavior humans show, depending on what kind of music man likes. So the pattern is clear, if you hear Beyoncé’s “irreplacable” or TLCs “Scrubs” you are the “avoiding type”, if you hear Ed Sheeran “Thinking Out Loud”, you show a rather safe attachment behavior.
A person who mainly hears violin scrubs in Polish, Brian Eno or Steve Reich to come down, for whom relationships are generally a book with seven seals.
The power shock
Do yourself a favor and remember your early childhood musical experiences, and then it bravely combines the rest of your life and with it where you came out today. I have the feeling that there is something.
Finally, it should be said that parents have too much power across the board. If all parents knew that their children basically only hang on their lips and car radios like small puppets, they would probably be very retrospectively withdrawing over everything.
So here as everywhere: eyes open when choosing music – it’s for life.