What determines a persons taste in music

[Ningyou]

I think I like certain Metalcore and Nu metal (and no, not just the song "Crawling' by Linkin Park) a lot because I felt different and isolated in middle/high school for a while, and felt I was a hipster in a sense.

Monster by Skillet

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[Katadeus]

My dad played a lot of classic rock when I was little, mainly Sting and the Police. So I grew up listening to classic rock and I love it now.

You must be my sister.

[Mikoyan]

When I was very young and my dad was still going to college, he'd play a lot of classical music. I love it.

[MillCzarr]

Soft Electro
Smooth Jazz
Anything light instrumental is good

[ShadowsfeaR]

Monster by Skillet

Have my babies lol

On topic:

It depends on what you grew up with. It usually evolves into something you will listen to for the rest of your life. I grew up from Lenny Kravitz, to Linkin Park (FIRST TWO ALBUMS, NOT THEIR LATEST stuff FILLED CD CASES), to Switchfoot, to 30 Seconds to Mars, to Slipknot, to blah blah blah blah and now all I mostly listen to is Metalcore, Death Metal, and Djent.

[Kumquat]

It is told to your parents what your favorite music will be in a fortune cookie at age .03

[Cybersix]

Yeah. I really hate modern music, most rap is just guys talking about how much of a G they are. 60s-80s music seems much better to me, but like the topic is about, we all have different tastes.

Pretty much me.
But, 40s-80s for me.

[Daedalus]

I like nearly anything short of death metal/screamo and most country, as long as I find it good - if that makes sense.
Basically I don't label myself as liking any specific genres, because for one thing, I like such a huge, eclectic variety of music it'd be hard to classify them all, and for another thing, I like some music that really doesn't even have a definable genre.

[Becquerel]

Anything that is Techno/game soundtrack/indie and has absolutely NO LYRICS at all I will listen too

[Kobewarrior]

Not sure.
I listen to a lot of heavy metal but my parents dislike heavy metal.
Probably my uncle.

[Cybersix]

Nothing's better than some good ol' fashioned progressive rock.

[IUV]

What's with the generic rock/metal responses?

I'm suddenly very glad you all hate me.

[Flamecannon]

i liked music
ever since my momma was a baby just because the rhythm is slow that dont mean that you can't flow
i like all, but some more than others
like sorry but dubstep isn't the greatest to me, but i can appreciate that it IS a genre of music, and there's bound to be at least one song i like

[Thorax]

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Metalcore

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I think it steams from what we initially hear. A lot of people hear the vocals first and base their opinion on either the sound of their voice or lyrics they are saying, in addition to other things such as flow and whatnot. From that initial observation, they listen to the other parts, be it the bass or the melody or even a specific sounding instrument. Aside from those people, there are the people (like me) who tend to hear the vocals as a secondary thing. I typically pick up on the melody/bass of a song at first sound, and I tend to rate what I like by that measure. I do appreciate lyrics and whatnot, but they aren't as important to me as is the melody or bass. I feel like it's the second group of people that would appreciate unclean vocals  (found in metal or whatever) rather than something that primarily focuses around clean vocals. Also, separate from these two groups are another two groups. There are those that like fast paced music and those the like slow paced music. I find myself relating to the former more often than the latter (though I can appreciate it). Something related to this is how my friend and I like the hardcore genre. I like high-energy shredding stuff while he appreciates a slower "chugging" sound, despite the sound of the bands being similar.

[Mega-Bear]

You must be my sister.

hello brother.