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ArmyGrl

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Has your music tastes changed over the years?

Growing up as an 80's child, I am still in love with 80's Pop. I still sing along with Lionel Richie, the Pointer Sisters, Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, Prince, Madonna, and Whitney Houston.

As I entered my teen years, I learned of and listened to New Wave, electronic, punk, and industrial rock - Depeche Mode, New Order, Nine Inch Nails....and even listened to Hair Bands and Metal. Guns N Roses was my first concert followed by Metallica. And the Seattle Grunge was all that and a bag of chips. Nirvana, Sound Garden, yum.

But I also LOVED the late 80's and 90's Rap and Hip Hop - Salt N Pepa, Run DMC and Bestie Boys being some of my favorites. Lauren Hill, Eve, Missy Eliot were on replay. TLC, Bell Biv DeVoe - these were popular in my high school days.

My tastes have always been eclectic and all over the place.

I never listened to or liked country until my 20's and in the Army....introduced to new people, new styles. And country in the early 2000s had a lot of pop and rock in it, IMO.

Fast forward to me being in my 40s. I now listen to 20th century classical, modern classical, minimalist, and neoclassical more than anything. Stuff like Ludovico Einaudi, Olafur Arnalds and Max Richter - lots of strings and piano mixed with electronic synth. Sometimes this kind of music is called atmospheric pop or ambient music. Truthfully, I am not a fan of classical classical.

I still love the music of my past - and I am a fan of modern music (pop) + new types of music (atmospheric, neoclassical). So, yes, my tastes have changed a bit and expanded even more.

How about you?
 
My favorite music is still the music from the 60's/70's/early 80's. My growing up years through my early 30's. Living with my parents in the late 80's/early 90's I started listening to country from those days (although they liked country for a long time, even took me to the Grand Old Opry in the 60's). So I gravitated to country but not today's country. The country music from the 80's/90's.

I have never gotten into rap, hip hop and all that stuff you listed for your teen years. Never been into classical either. I did enjoy music from the musicals of the 50's.

These days with my tinnitus, I cannot listen to most music. The instrumental sounds overwhelm me and I can never understand the lyrics. So that is why I still gravitate to the older music... the music that I know the lyrics and can sing along! Although I found a group in 2017 that is ac cappella country (although they do other genres as well) and I love them. Since there are no instruments I can enjoy the lyrics. When I first found them they did a lot of covers but now do more of their own original music. They have introduced me to newer country songs that I do like... because I can understand what they are singing! I have so many favorites from them but #1 is May Day, then American Pie (with Don McLean) and How Great Thou Art is another fantastic song from them. Group is Home Free.
 
Come on...I'm an 80's girl...the best decade for music. But seriously, I love it all. I always say a good song is a good song, it doesn't matter what era, band, genre! I do listen to the local pop radio when I'm in the car. I however have not listened to any of those that you mentioned at the end of your post. I did go to YouTube and check them out, I liked them!
 
I laugh at my hubby who ONLY listens to classic rock - I don't think he's voluntarily listened to anything dated after the year 2000. :lol My tastes have changed a smidge. I was more into pop and rock when I was younger, then grunge in the 90s (Pearl Jam is my favorite band). I still listen to all of that but more recently, I find myself listening more to alt rock plus some punk and a little rap.
 
I've always had very eclectic musical tastes. I like classical music, operas, Broadway/movie show tunes, jazz, Cole Porter, pop/rock music from the 50's to the 2000's. I am not a fan of the most current rap/hip hop mainly because I can't decipher the "lyrics" at all. It just sounds like noise to me.
 
I like alternative rock, contemporary rock, pop, R&B, new country, funk, soul, disco, new age/ambient. Mostly I listen to alt rock/contemporary rock and pop.
 
garrynkim said:
I always say a good song is a good song, it doesn't matter what era, band, genre!
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I agree, I grew up on the older classics of probably the 70’s roughly through family but then growing up in the 90’s and early 2000’s I was heavily influenced with the manufactured pop. Now days I probably listen to more pop/country and singer/songwriters & acapella.
 
Speaking of rap, my daughter introduced me to a band called "The Streets" from England, rappers I can understand! I do like Eminem though. Mostly a few songs. I love discovering new music. Hiss Golden Messenger, Lake Street Dive, Nathanial Rateliff and the Nightsweats. I have Sirius XM and listen to The Spectrum a lot. Sharon Van Etton was a new musician for me. I like everything from Cab Calloway to Zappa.
Back to rap, I adore Queen Latiffa especially in the musical Chicago.
Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps, Blue Sky Riders are about as deep as I'll get into country music, I'm not a big fan.
I do believe that it's a given to love Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton. It might be in the constitution or something.
I love musicals, I got hooked when I saw The Music Man and the original Grease on Broadway.
 
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bonnenuit said:
I am not a fan of the most current rap/hip hop mainly because I can't decipher the "lyrics" at all.
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Ha! I can decipher the lyrics and lean towards much more mellow music these days (the ambient neoclassical). I am a bit on the prudish side and get frustrated with the topic and themes of today's music. Not that those undertones did not exist back in the 80's or 90's....I am the one who changed.
 
garrynkim said:
Come on...I'm an 80's girl...the best decade for music.
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The 80's were really good. I am hearing more melodies and remakes in today's music that stem from the 80's and early 90's. And I'm like, can't these youngsters come up with their own rhythms and melodies?
 
I listen to just about everything I can get my ears on. Born late 70s to a father who loves music and collects vinyl albums even still to this day meant we heard pretty much all of it.
So from jazz, to reggae, to R&B, to all the decades since the 50s I've listened to it at some point in my life.

Growing up in the 80s meant you listened to whatever was on the radio, so I do love a good 80s pop song. Entering teens I got into my own tastes of rap, R&B and mixed in whatever else I liked from childhood.

As an adult now my tastes are still all over the place. I can jump from rap to jazz to 80s, to the wonderful blues ladies like Nina or Billy over to afrobeats to classical to ambient and just instrumental beats.....I'm all about music. Music is life for me. I usually always have something playing while working, walking, driving, scrapping....etc.

There are a few genres I didn't get into though, like country never was my thing. I agree that in the 90s early 2000 they went pop-ish with country and I did end up liking a few songs. I also have never really gotten into rock either.
 
I still love my 90's pop (Hello Backstreet Boys!) but since I've met my husband I've also started to like country music, which I absolutely hated prior to that. Not the twangy stuff but newer type country (Keith Urban, Dean Brody, Luke Bryan).
 
I listen to pretty much anything depending on my mood. The only thing I really don't like is Bluegrass. I'd say harder rock is my favorite, but I love me some old 60's & 70's rock. I like 80's ok, but never really got in to the more pop-ish 80's music. I do really like a lot of current stuff as well.
My son was flipping through the channels on SiriusXM the other day and I told him that I guess it says something about my music taste (or my age :giggle) when I can sing along with just about any station he lands on lol.
 
This post took me back to the tapes I would record from the radio and the first 12 CDs I ordered from BMG (which my older sister basically picked for me).

My music tastes started with what my older siblings listened to (Goo Goo Dolls, Counting Crows, Def Leppard to name a few).

As I hit my teen years I was all about pop, punk and alternative rock (Backstreet Boys, Lifehouse, Avril Lavigne, Blink 182). My siblings still tease me for chanting "I have Blink!" when we were crammed in a car together in Hawaii trying to agree on music.

Lately I listen to Lewis Capaldi when I'm having a day, The Greatest Showman soundtrack for fun, and everything in between because I still enjoy all the music I've liked in the past.
 
ArmyGrl said:
Has your music tastes changed over the years?

Growing up as an 80's child, I am still in love with 80's Pop. I still sing along with Lionel Richie, the Pointer Sisters, Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, Prince, Madonna, and Whitney Houston.

As I entered my teen years, I learned of and listened to New Wave, electronic, punk, and industrial rock - Depeche Mode, New Order, Nine Inch Nails....and even listened to Hair Bands and Metal. Guns N Roses was my first concert followed by Metallica. And the Seattle Grunge was all that and a bag of chips. Nirvana, Sound Garden, yum.

But I also LOVED the late 80's and 90's Rap and Hip Hop - Salt N Pepa, Run DMC and Bestie Boys being some of my favorites. Lauren Hill, Eve, Missy Eliot were on replay. TLC, Bell Biv DeVoe - these were popular in my high school days.

My tastes have always been eclectic and all over the place.

I never listened to or liked country until my 20's and in the Army....introduced to new people, new styles. And country in the early 2000s had a lot of pop and rock in it, IMO.

Fast forward to me being in my 40s. I now listen to 20th century classical, modern classical, minimalist, and neoclassical more than anything. Stuff like Ludovico Einaudi, Olafur Arnalds and Max Richter - lots of strings and piano mixed with electronic synth. Sometimes this kind of music is called atmospheric pop or ambient music. Truthfully, I am not a fan of classical classical.

I still love the music of my past - and I am a fan of modern music (pop) + new types of music (atmospheric, neoclassical). So, yes, my tastes have changed a bit and expanded even more.

How about you?
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I feel like I could have written this myself. :giggle I usually can find songs in every genre that I can like and sing along to. Even my kids music of today. My son and I regularly share music with each other.

The only real differences were I was probably into Classic Rock/Hair Bands a lot more than the grunge. I knew the popular songs, and could sing along, but didn't follow closely. We saw NKOTB, Tiffany, Salt & Pepa, Naughty by Nature, etc a couple years ago. That was a fun show!

And I've never really been into "20th century classical, modern classical, minimalist, and neoclassical more than anything. Stuff like Ludovico Einaudi, Olafur Arnalds and Max Richter - lots of strings and piano mixed with electronic synth. Sometimes this kind of music is called atmospheric pop or ambient music. Truthfully, I am not a fan of classical classical." I don't really know it to give an opinion. I am not into classical classical too. hahah!
 
I have SiriusXM in my car and my go-to channels are anything from the 70's and 80's.

I couldn't even tell you who most of the artists are from the Grammy's last night. :giggle
 
I am a massive country music fan. But I also love 80s music, Folk, Jazz, Classical, Pop and soft rock. I always have music on in the background while I work, scrap, clean the house. I rotate my playlists on Spotify depending on my mood.
 
Growing up the only thing my family ever listened to was country. I was never really "into" music and different have any bands I was head over heels for. Now, I can't stand country music.

I pretty much listen to whatever my husband and kids listen to...which is mostly different genres of Christian music - rock, worship, contemporary, hymns etc. We also enjoy listening to classical music. But my favorite thing is listening to my kids play music.
 
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