Does your relateability to certain musical tastes determine you age?

[Mortecha]

Existentialism 101. The music you find most enjoyable and relate most too determines the time period you grew up in. Arguments for and against go!

 

[redbaron]

For:
- interest in musical artists would strongly correlate with age
- i think a lot of people enjoy music they grew up with

Against:
- musical tastes vary a lot over time and people end up liking all kinds of music from all different time periods
- you can only enjoy as much as you've heard, it's likely that if people heard lots of different music they'd grow to like other things even more

Anecdote:
- my partner actually hates a lot of the music she grew up with because it was boring as shit, and likes pretty much all sorts of music that she was never exposed to when younger

 

[nanook]

Artists i enjoy today are often at a similar age or slightly older than me. Good luck figuring how they all relate to zeitgeist, given that i like the most eclectic (genre transcending) and escapist music.

Spoiler

-Dub Fx, Puscifer, Dornenreich, Käptn Peng
-Tool, NIN, Emptyself, Moddi, The Knife
-Amanda Palmer, Robyn, Die Antwoord, Jolly Goods, Bomba Estero
-Tori Amos, The XX, lamb, Toni Kater
-Warsaw Village Band, Menton J Matthews III, Soriah, Angelite

Artists i grew up with (90ies) were much older than me. Perhaps in that way their music didn't actually represent the time it was released in. Today i don't enjoy any of what i grew up with (Public Enemy, Ice-T, Sepultura). I also grew up with music of my older sister (80ies, Madonna, Michael Jackson).

 

[Mortecha]

So, basically it is music by association rather than date?

 

[QuickTwist]

I think musical tastes has more to do with personality than age, honestly.