What musical preferences depend on
Music can safely be called a universal language. Regardless of the language in which certain songs are sung, we want to listen to certain music for some reason, even if we don’t understand the meaning of the song at all.
Many scientists struggle with the following questions: what does a person’s musical taste depend on, why do some songs and music become “hackneyed” within a few years, while others are quickly forgotten. These same questions do not give rest and musicians, composers, because they want people to like their work. There are many sociological studies that can be accessed through print booklets, magazines, brochures on psychology. This literature is constantly being updated and added to. Let’s try to understand a little bit about the reasons for our musical cravings.
Today the musical world is represented by a wide range of styles and directions. Musical creativity does not stand still and is constantly changing, so listeners are constantly discovering new sounds. In the same way, the musical preferences of not an entire generation, but even an individual, are changing. After all, it’s rare for someone to like only a certain artist and a certain style of music throughout their life. What to say about a lifetime, the music is chosen according to the mood, circumstances, events. A person can radically change their playlist in their player several times a day. But researchers have identified some patterns.
Favorite music changes with age. It goes without saying that at a very young age, there can be no better than songs from cartoons. At a later age (adolescence) prefer “bright” music. As a rule, it is a single pronounced style. Very often it is a loud, shouting music. Such music merges with the daily life of the teenager and passes into the style of dress, behavior, interior design. As a teenager, many run around town looking for a place to order a poster, poster, t-shirt or cap with the idols and their symbols. This is how adolescent maximalism goes: if you are passionate about something, then the full program.
In the next stage of adolescence, preferences are given to dance music and pop music. Scientists connect this to the fact that this period is full of acquaintances, communication, which take place in cafes, restaurants, movies, nightclubs. Naturally, this leaves an imprint on the musical taste.
At the stage when one gets a serious job and a family, when life is no longer one continuous party, one wants to listen to something a little calmer. In the age that corresponds to this period of life, people like soul, blues, folk, ethnic music, jazz.
There are patterns of musical preferences depending on the character of the person. For example, extroverted, sociable and self-confident people prefer pop music, again, such people spend a lot of time in public places where pop music is played. An especially high degree of sociability have a fan of dance styles. These people simply make acquaintances on the dance floor in a nightclub. Their opposite introverts prefer classical music. Fans of such music are also confident, they are not bored in solitude, because they like to create and they are courageous in their judgments and views.
A compromise between classical and pop and dance music can be called people who prefer blues and jazz. Fans of such directions, as a rule, are creative individuals who are able and like to communicate, know their strengths and have a sufficiently high self-esteem. Strange as it may seem, but rock listeners, as researchers have shown, are characterized as people with low self-esteem. At the same time they have high creative potential.
Be bold and versatile in your musical passions. With music you can enhance the effect of joyful moments, soften unpleasant incidents, overcome fatigue and just enjoy a pleasant melody. The most important thing is to choose the right accompaniment. Enjoy your music!
