But you don’t necessarily have to. Have you ever wondered what leads people to listen to certain types of music? It started bugging me when my best friend (the kind of best friend you have at the tender age of 13) stopped talking to me when I told her that Tokio Hotel wouldn’t last in the music industry more than four years (and they didn’t). To be fair, I realize now that telling a crazed teenager the band she is crushing on sucks probably wasn’t the most tactful approach.
It’s interesting that as you get older your musical taste usually becomes broader. Take my early teen start with symphonic and power metal, which evolved into the darkness of black and death metal during my first year of high school. (Mind you it was also a time of wearing chokers around my neck and hating society.) This eventually mellowed into an embrace of ska and reggae. Today, at the age of 21, I listen to music ranging from metal, indie, jazz, progressive, or classical, all the way to the occasional pop song. What I’ve picked up is that you go through life and experience a huge amount of things you link emotions to, especially songs. As you expose yourself to more music and experiences, one also becomes more tolerant to the musical tastes of others. With all that said, I still consider myself a metalhead and my friend is still a boy band lover. But, I don’t laugh at her music choices (that often).
