Where do kids get there TASTE IN MUSIC?

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Where do kids get there TASTE IN MUSIC?
Topic Started: Oct 19 2009, 06:21 AM (49 Views)
mouser	Oct 19 2009, 06:21 AM Post #1
Posts: 8,285 Group: Super Moderator Member #8 Joined: Feb 7, 2008	This article was in the New York Times Learning Section for Kids. I think the answers these kids give will also be applicable to any peer group regardless of age. I am going to follow the comments and see what the kids say..... http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/how-much-is-your-taste-in-music-based-on-what-your-friends-like/ October 19, 2009 , 6:37 am How Much Is Your Taste in Music Based on What Your Friends Like? By The Learning Network Questions about issues in the news for students 13 and older. Do you think it’s possible that you might think you like certain bands only because your friends tell you they’re awesome, not because you actually enjoy their music? Have you ever used Pandora, the internet radio service that uses algorithms to guide you to music you might previously have thought you hated? In the Sunday Magazine, an article called “The Song Decoders” examines how Pandora works to “strip to parts and reverse-engineer” your favorite songs by examining their acoustic elements. It also questions how much we’re influenced by other people’s tastes: Pandoraâ€™s approach more or less ignores the crowd. It is indifferent to the possibility that any given piece of music in its system might become a hit. The idea is to figure out what you like, not what a market might like. More interesting, the idea is that the taste of your cool friends, your peers, the traditional music critics, big-label talent scouts and the latest influential music blog are all equally irrelevant. Thatâ€™s all cultural information, not musical information. And theoretically at least, Pandoraâ€™s approach distances music-liking from the cultural information that generally attaches to it. Which raises interesting questions. Do you really love listening to the latest Jack White project? Do you really hate the sound of Britney Spears? Or are your music-consumption habits, in fact, not merely guided but partly shaped by the cultural information that Pandora largely screens out â€” like whatâ€™s considered awesome (or insufferable) by your peers, or by music tastemakers, or by anybody else? Is it really possible to separate musical taste from such social factors, online or off, and make it purely about the raw stuff of the music itself? Students: Tell us about your favorite artists and what you think they might have in common musically. How much do you think your friends influence your taste? Do you think a service like Pandora could correctly choose music you would love?



mouser	Oct 19 2009, 10:30 AM Post #2
Posts: 8,285 Group: Super Moderator Member #8 Joined: Feb 7, 2008	Here are some comments so far: 1. October 19, 2009 8:49 am Link its not really but i get some songs some friends — Nate 2. October 19, 2009 8:52 am Link My taste in music does compare differently from friend to friend although my liking at least one artist per genre helps in my relation in taste with my other friends. Such as if one friend likes Heavy Metal and another with Pop I could easily relate with one or more artists. My friends may say a band is awesome and I’ll look at it but if I don’t like it I’ll be sure not to let them pressure me into listening to that certain band. — Simone 3. October 19, 2009 10:01 am Link My favorite artists are the gothic rock bands such as lacrimosa, nightwish, within temptation… I also like some indie singers, for example, owl city, the do, ect. My friends have big influence on me. Because we usually recommend songs and singers to each other and find we all like them. Even if I don’t like them in the first place, I tend to listen to them more and try to see if I can fall in love with them since they are strong recommendations from my friends. I have no comments on Pandora because I am not living in U.S. and cannot enjoy its service. — Junor 4. October 19, 2009 10:26 am Link My music tastes seriously differ from my friends. they like heavy metal, but i like Punk rock bands such as the Dead Kennedys, The Bad Brains, and The Stooges, and all my friends tell me I don’t listen to real music. - Justin — justin 5. October 19, 2009 10:26 am Link When my friends tell me bands that they like I check it out but if i really don’t like them then I’m not going to listen to them. My friends and I have a large range of music but we mostly like all the same things. I love it when my friends tell me to listen to bands that I have never heard because most of the time, it turns out that I do like them! — ~Amber 6. October 19, 2009 10:26 am Link my friends and i share our music with each other even thought we sometimes listen to different things. — nathan 7. October 19, 2009 10:28 am Link My favorite band is Evanescence. It’s kinda sad that they broke up, but that’s not the point. The point is, is that I love their music because I love them, not because my friends or anyone for that matter forced me or pressured me into liking them. — Logan 8. October 19, 2009 10:28 am Link i believe that friends do influence other friends as well as family and peers. people don’t influence each other just on music, but on many different things. so i would agree that friends [and family] greatly influence our tastes in different things. — Sydney 9. October 19, 2009 10:29 am Link My taste on music is most of the time based on my friends unintentionally. What I mean, is that if a song comes on and I don’t originally like it but my friends love it , I end up liking it because I hear it all the time. — Kaylee 10. October 19, 2009 10:49 am Link Music is something that brings out your emotions, and could make you feel so much better when you’re in a bad mood. This is why I think that there is no way a friend could decide on what kind of music you like. Your taste in something is personally what you, yourself likes. Maybe some might influence you but that doesn’t mean your enjoying it, it means you do it to fit it or to seem ‘cool’. For example if you don’t have a lot of friends and someone is starting to seem nice to you, you do whatever you can to make them like you even more. That’s something people may do with music, but there is no way that people can change what YOU like. You have your own taste in music, not someone else’s taste. — Jennifer 11. October 19, 2009 10:59 am Link There are many songs that I listen to only with my friends. If I’m in the car with a friend, I let her decide what music gets played on the radio simply because it is her car and that is the polite thing to do. I usually can tolerate the hours and hours of Z100 playing the same ten songs over and over in different order. I would never put stuff from pit-bull or 3OH3 on my ipod, but I don’t put up a fight when it comes on if I’m in a friends car. There is music that I just cannot deal with. Most of my friends know I am absolutely disgusted with the Jonas Bros. and Miley Cyrus. They change the station for me kindly. There are songs and bands that I would never know they existed if I hadn’t spent so much time with my friends. If I was a looser in high school I wouldn’t have gone to prom. Part of the prom experience is music. There were so many good songs that I heard for the first time at prom, and it was fun to listen to new music with my friends. I’m not easily persuaded to like things just because my friends do. I go with the flow usually, unless of course we’re in my car, and I’m driving. Then we follow my rules! — Kathleen 12. October 19, 2009 11:08 am Link My favorite artists are Michael W. Smith, Chris Tombling and Hillsong. They are my favorites not because my friends like them or because there popular, I like them because there music cheers me up whenever I’m disappointed or when I’m going through hard times. It cheers me up because of the message they transport through their music. Musically they have the same message because they sing for one reason, they sing to tell the world that they are not along that someone is watching over them. Friends don’t influence my taste because I’m the judge of what I hear, if I like what they are trying to get me hear and it has a good message I will listen to it but if is full of courses and I don’t feel any joy when I listen to it I wont listen to it even if the whole world is crazy for that songs I wont change my mind and listened just because is a popular song that everybody likes. I don’t think a service like Pandora would choose the music that I like to listen because everyone has a different taste. — Imelda 13. October 19, 2009 11:19 am Link My friends don’t influence me on my choice of music. In fact the music I listen to my friends don’t like. — Ashley 14. October 19, 2009 11:19 am Link I listen to Pandora and find that there’s so much more out there to like. I like the fact that it doesn’t just play the popular stuff. If a friend suggests an artist or a particular song, I’ll listen to it, and I’m not going to say that their opinion of it doesn’t influence mine, because it does, there’s no denying it. I believe that happens to everyone. But I have my own taste and not everything I listen to is what my friends like and not everything they listen to is what I like. — Caitlin 15. October 19, 2009 11:19 am Link I think that my type of music i listen to is not based on what my friends listen to, we all are diffrent and we do swap diffrent types but i listen to what i enjoy. My friends have showed me diffrent bands and artists but i choose what i like. ~Amanda — Amanda 16. October 19, 2009 11:23 am Link I like many different genres of music. Some is popular, but I mostly prefer music not generally on the radio or vh1. Some of my favorites are The Scene Aesthetic, Chiodos, Nevershoutnever, Escape the Fate, Bring Me the Horizon, Owl City, etc. I often recommend songs and artists to my friends, and they do the same for me, so, yes, my friends do influence my taste in music. I’m always willing to try new music. I have tried Pandora, and I like it, though I don’t use it often. I tend to find my music on myspace and from suggestions from different people. — Molly 17. October 19, 2009 11:31 am Link I listen to pandora when I want background music. It’s commercial free music. Sometimes I want classical, sometimes I want to hear the blues. It does not have all the types of music I would want to hear. I was very disappointed with it’s African music. - basically I didn’t find it. But the concept of pandora is pretty interesting. — kathy



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