# Does your music taste change with time? **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/does-your-music-taste-change-with-time/19148 **Category:** Off-Topic **Created:** [July 15, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/does-your-music-taste-change-with-time/19148 "2017-07-15T17:36:43Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 12
### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow) #### Post date: [October 31, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/does-your-music-taste-change-with-time/19148/12 "2019-10-31T20:36:34Z")
> [@incifinci](#): > > According to music psychological writings, it is inevitable to change with age. If you can refer me to some valuable readings on the Internet, I will gladly explore them > [@incifinci](#): > > In the last about 5 years my earlier taste of romantics/viennese-classics 50-50% changed to 75-25%. In easy music now i love earlier unknown for me covers (of mostly pop songs) by german (and partially other) big bands of 1960's-1980's years (preferring trumpets -- Frank Valdor is an example); and now i much more like swing (and neoswing) and boogie-woogie. I myself over the last 5 years have dismissed a whole lot of music on two separate accounts: **A]** some sounds / instruments for me now are now simply unpleasant, irritating even [but the compositions themselves on a stand alone basis I still liked and like] **B]** some compositions themselves are now like boring, instruments sound too weak to what they can sound like, special effects used are too primitive to me [albeit being free of just unpleasant sounds] But I still have songs and instrumental music from when I was a teenager. And that music I value the most, because it shows to me that I got rid of the weak ones [`B`]. But the other removals from my collection [`A`] are sometimes done with a thought in mind like "it is a pity that I am not able to enjoy this anymore" ` ` ` ` So > [@Zerow](#): > > [...] > I stipulated that in 10 or 20 years I will not become a fan of the opera, country, yodeling, dub step etc. nor will I completely despise artists / genres that I have enjoyed up to now. Single tracks- yes, it was happening and is happening right now. But whole albums / works- I just cannot see that happening > [...] and 2 years later it still holds up [to be precise, way more than 2 years, because at the time of posting that I was referring to a conversation with a friend from a past] But it is not like "I will not listen to Frank Valdor just because I think my taste is set up for life". It is more like "I do not know Frank Valdor but I also do not want to know him because I simply already have too much music for my one life that I have to spent" [[How much music do you have?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-much-music-do-you-have/19147)]. But I do think that in overall my taste was closed a long time ago, polished for the last 5 years and now I am just removing that which does not fit into it and that what still fits but is just too weak. And that last one is because: if some pieces of instrumental music gives me ASMR and some song make we want to drop down and as many pushups as I can, then why not listen only to such music, getting rid of all the mediocrity? Some pieces of music get to the inside of with 2-3 second and I can repeat them 5 times in a row - while others will not get any other response from me other than "that is boring" or "how weak that is" Because it also like this: I used to think that Mark Snow was the s\*\*t. That was when "The X-Files" were the TV series that ruled the world of entertainment around the globe [1990s]. But then I listened to so many other film scores and in few years saw what Mark Snow really was about- just one of many mediocre composers, who accidentally made a great theme [that is a true story: he came up with the characteristic sound of is signature theme by accident when playing with his keyboard]. Do not get me wrong: I still listen to some of his tracks, but so much more got demised without a second thought - and there is now way I will be getting back to them ` ` ` ` Although I noticed a slight change in my approach to what I do not like. After something like watching a new popular music video on YouTube I am able to say "I do not like it but I can see why someone would enjoy this, because it objectively has good elements A, B, C and D". But at the same time, after watching something else, I can also think "this is plain awful on the account C, D and E" ` ` ` ` I still would like to hear insights and recollections from other users of this forum --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/does-your-music-taste-change-with-time/19148)._