{"id":1683,"date":"2014-10-03T10:10:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T18:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2024-11-13T20:54:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T04:54:27","slug":"taste-music-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/taste-music-say\/","title":{"rendered":"What does my taste in music say about me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/taste-music-say\/\" data-text=\"What does my taste in music say about me%3f\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>And conversely, what does your taste in music say about you?<\/p>\n<p>According to t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/science-of-choice\/202212\/what-do-your-musical-preferences-say-about-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his article at Pcsychology Today<\/a> it says quite a bit. \u00a0Practically the first sentence of the article asserts that you can predict whether someone is politically conservative or liberal by noting &#8220;markers of openness&#8221; in a person&#8217;s music collection. \u00a0For me, this is where the article goes&#8230;well&#8230;barking up the wrong tree. \u00a0Because the &#8220;markers of openess&#8221; allegedly denoting a politically liberal person exist in my library\/music collection. \u00a0I am not liberal, politically anyway. \u00a0And it just goes further off the rails from there. \u00a0My advice? \u00a0Just listen to what you like and don&#8217;t worry so much about what it says about you. \u00a0Because whatever it &#8220;says about you&#8221; is likely to be a (probably wrong) conclusion jumped to by someone who doesn&#8217;t know you.<\/p>\n<p>But there are still some questions related to what we listen to and why we listen to it. \u00a0For example:\u00a0At what age do you form your taste in music? \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=At+what+age+do+you+form+your+taste+in+music&amp;client=ms-google-coop&amp;sca_esv=6dfa8b3a1e7c98c6&amp;cx=008467448622153033003%3Aylfw1yr4xfa&amp;ei=coE1Z87CGe_O0PEPhKX30AM&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjOw9DzgtuJAxVvJzQIHYTSHToQ4dUDCA8&amp;oq=At+what+age+do+you+form+your+taste+in+music&amp;gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiK0F0IHdoYXQgYWdlIGRvIHlvdSBmb3JtIHlvdXIgdGFzdGUgaW4gbXVzaWMyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRirAkiqTFDWFVjWFXABeAGQAQCYAY4BoAHrAaoBAzEuMbgBDMgBAPgBAfgBApgCA6AC_gGoAhTCAhQQABiABBiRAhi0AhiKBRjqAtgBAcICHRAAGIAEGLQCGNQDGOUCGLcDGIoFGOoCGIoD2AEBwgIWEC4YAxi0AhjlAhjqAhiMAxiPAdgBAsICFhAAGAMYtAIY5QIY6gIYjAMYjwHYAQLCAhkQABgDGLQCGOUCGMcDGOoCGIwDGI8B2AECwgIZEC4YAxjUAhi0AhjlAhjqAhiMAxiPAdgBApgDlAG6BgQIARgHugYGCAIQARgKkgcDMS4yoAeszwE&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-serp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Many an article has been written on this subject<\/a> and they all say something different. \u00a0Some say at a certain age your brain &#8220;bonds&#8221; to the music you listen to. \u00a0Some say that you settle on music that coincides with a certain emotional climate occurring in your life at a certain time. \u00a0And so on and so on. \u00a0I understand that we want to know why. \u00a0We&#8217;re always asking <em>WHY<\/em>? \u00a0But does it matter? \u00a0I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, questions inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/two-idle-questions-about-music.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this post at Althouse<\/a>: what is your &#8220;peak year&#8221; for favorite music and how old were you at that time? \u00a0Well, the answers to these questions may go some way to answering the previous questions because if you can determine your &#8220;peak year&#8221; you may have some empirical data to fill in the blanks to the previous questions and perhaps a pattern will emerge. \u00a0I did say perhaps. \u00a0I also said &#8220;if you can answer&#8221;. \u00a0I add the disclaimer because determining your &#8220;peak year&#8221; isn&#8217;t as easy as it sounds. \u00a0That may be a project for the coming week with the results posted next Music Friday. \u00a0We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/taste-music-say\/grandpa-music\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1685\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1685\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/grandpa-music.jpg\" alt=\"grandpa music\" width=\"236\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/grandpa-music.jpg 236w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/grandpa-music-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/grandpa-music-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">My guess is that my &#8220;peak year&#8221; falls into the mid 1960s somewhere, at least based on my recent Music Friday posts. \u00a0But I could do music posts all day every day and still get stuck in any given genre for a good long while. \u00a0So what does my taste in music say about me? \u00a0I don&#8217;t really know. \u00a0And I don&#8217;t really care.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet And conversely, what does your taste in music say about you? According to this article at Pcsychology Today it says quite a bit. \u00a0Practically the first sentence of the article asserts that you can predict whether someone is politically conservative or liberal by noting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}