What genre of music do you listen to, and how did you first come across it?

[Miah04]

[WhiteSteve]

So, I guess the shortest answer is “rap.” It’s just always been there. When I first started listening to music around kindergarten or first grade, Run DMC was still big, Kurtis Blow, The Fat Boys (probably more of a novelty group but I was young😂), and then a little later came LL Cool J, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, etc.

But then came gangsta rap, and that was what REALLY got me. I remember hearing a friend’s NWA album with a skit where a reporter was doing a live report at an NWA concert, and some shit jumps off, and the reporter ends up catching a stray bullet and he’s screaming to cut the cameras off, and I can’t even describe the charge that went through the veins of young WhiteSteve in that moment😂

And I took a beating from other white people, lmao, it was all pre-Eminem, so you got clowned on if you were white and liked rap. I EARNED THIS😂

https://www.youtube.com/embed/i2qUIXBTZOg

Anyway…. gangsta rap evolved into coke rap, and nowadays, Griselda has just set the bar of hardness SO high that it’s tough to listen to anything else, because it’s all so soft by comparison…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/5_zNMU5bG5g

But then, on the flip side, I love super soft music, like pop punk, which I picked up mostly from working at Hollister Co. in the mid-00s😂

https://www.youtube.com/embed/5CUyWJ7UINM

It can go from sneaking out with your high school girlfriend to serving fiends REAL QUICK around here, just depends on my mood😂

[Miah04]

I kinda new rap would be your top.

[abc3643]

Well, I listen to many genres. Before the Internet, my first "come across it" moments were from radio. At first AM radio, then FM radio, then in particular college radio since it's not commercial. Also, TV since many forms of music are in soundtracks. For instance, I just had my Google Home unit play the song "The Mission by Lazlo Schifrin". Lazlo wrote scores for TV and movies and that song is from the TV show "Mission: Impossible". Of course, friends expose you to music too, and then MTV. When the Internet arrived, I discovered lots of music via "Live 365" and then from music purchase sites like CD Baby where I discovered "Hands Upon Black Earth". I also have SiriusXM and discover lots of artists on its stations. I listen to SiriusXM Spa and SXM Chill and, when they had it, Electric Area and CBC 3 where I discovered the Canadian band SUUNS.

[StudyingAuthor]

etal, When I was 7 and playing guitar hero with my dad, he was drunk with my step mom and they were playing this one song called BYOB, that made me love metal.

[Miah04]

That's cute

[StudyingAuthor]

Yup.

[dustybiker2]

My likes are scattered and unpredictable. My family questions some if the things they find me listening to, can't help what strikes me as good in a moment.

[Miah04]

Like a derp

[dustybiker2]

😂 Confirming someones manipulated interpretations

[Miah04]

😂😂

[drummerdude25]

Since about 2015, I really came to like a lot of the (at the time) new electronic and electro-pop types of music… and new styles were always emerging that kind of spun off a lot of the lesser known stuff I had known of as a kid… but also there was like this new vibe or “air” about it, in the music, I felt… and it felt like a larger cultural shift.

The music felt a bit worldly, positive and uplifting, or at the very least fun in a good way… not too easy or basic on the ears, like I had perceived a lot of electronic music I had heard when I was younger. Like it was coming from a lot of different places and amalgamating.

So long story short I guess lol, these days, anything that kind of fits into that “world” that’s what I like. Hope that made sense. 😅

[Rei13]

Rock/metal/alternative. Rock and alternative I don't know. Probably my dad and radio. Bullet for My Valentine was my introduction to screaming tho. I heard the song All these things I hate revolve around me in maybe sixth grade? I instantly fell in love with his singing and bought the CD. Honestly hated the rest of his songs because he screamed in them but they ended up growing on me and sent me down that rabbit hole lol.

[Fireguy17]

mostly 50s and 60s, along with classic vinyl.
Years ago I used to go to a resort town about a half hour away from my house and they had a DJ in the front of the place I would always go to, and live bands in the back with dancing.
They played 50s & 60s music as well as the bands.
I liked it.
The stuff on classic vinyl is what I grew up with.

[Joshydavid25]

I listen to all kinds of genres.. From rap to Japanese pop and rock.. Whatever sounds good.. I came across them at various points in my life doing different things... Of course..

[Miah04]

Look at joshy being all open to new music

[Joshydavid25]

From a young age my mother has us listening to Contemporary Christian rock for much of my childhood.. So, I started off listening to more than meets the eye.. LOL..

[Miah04]

Understood

[Joshydavid25]

Understand..

[mandyfire98]

I listen to pretty much everything except jazz music lol.

[Miah04]

*plays jazz loudly*

[mandyfire98]

Oh god, no.

[Miah04]

*turns up the music louder*
Listen to it🤨

[mandyfire98]

It's just a bunch of noise. Loud chaotic noise all playing at once.

[Miah04]

😂😂😂

[mandyfire98]

Instruments in a blender

[MacDaddyRico]

@mandyfire98 That's just one type or style of jazz, which I hate as well.
Other types of jazz are much more appealing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jazz_genres

[JustinTheGreat]

I listen to a lot of genres. Mostly pop music. obviously pop music is just played everywhere so it’s not hard to discover it

But another genre that I’ve gotten into recently is more psychedelic inspired music. Like psychedelic rock or psychedelic pop. I got into it because I started doing shrooms a couple years ago lol. I would look up music that sounds good when you’re tripping and found a whole bunch of psychedelic music

[Jason2469]

I'm 42 years old and was raised by my great depreasion aged grand parents. I listen to everything that was recorded from 1919 to today outside of Country and mumble rap. My play list is so eclectic that only I like it and it's duration is listed in years and it's been on random 24 hours for the last 10 years and only a few songs have hit the "played 4 times" list.

[susie22]

I listen to almost anything but the really twangy country or extreme head banger stuff. I've lately been listening to a decent amount of Motown, and surprisingly I'm liking it.

[bowenw]

Probably pop/rock most as it was always played on the radio when I was growing up.

[Miah04]

Gotcha

[DrPepper12]

Oh boy,
Motown
Hip hop
Metal
Progressive
Pop
Classic Rock
Rap
Broadway / Soundtracks
Classical occasionally

And the only country artist that mattets: The Man in Black Johnny Cash!!!

[sirderpsalot123]

Good music lol I don't know, I've always just liked good things

[Miah04]

Such a derp

[Wiredone]

Now it's called classic rock. When I first started listening to it, it was called rock music

[Miah04]

Understood

[DJB72]

Eclectic. I was brought up in a home that played everything from Gregorian Chant to Classic Rock with Country and Western thrown in.

[SeriouslyNotSerious]

Different genres, I like switching it up. Mostly pop, RnB and ballads.

[Sonorous]

I mainly listen to electronic dance music & I think I came across it from mainstream songs.

[IslaTheWitch]

listen to everything I like... no one specific genre...

[LiamJHayden]

Mostly rock (hard, melodic metal, Prog) and classical (except most opera). All from my dad and guitar teachers. I also do like some 50', 60's, and 70's Pop because of my mom.

[Knightwatch27]

I listen to many genres. Christian country, Irish folk music, rock, classical. If I hear something I like I add it to my list, simple as that.

[Charliefretz329]

All, radio, streaming, overhearing others selections, and music courses.

[Staximus]

I listen to a lot of different types of music. I think that anybody who only listens to one type of music is mentally stunted or is stuck out in the middle of nowhere.