(Alternative title: How do you think your music taste correlates with you as a person?)

I'm sometimes quite interested in this. I think many things, including music, that we are drawn to can say things about us as people in some way. Or what do you think? Obviously most of us probably don't only listen to one kind of music but still, is there anything that sticks out to you?

I will post my own one soon.

I've gone through many phases which I guess in itself reflects me as a person because I don't like too much of the same thing generally speaking.

As a teen in the 90s rave music was my thing and it certainly went beyond the music. I saw a lot of the DJs had long hair so I grew mine, when I saw footage of raves I saw a lot of adidas being worn so I started wearing adidas myself. There weren't many others at school into rave, plenty were into house music but would turn their noses up at anything above 130 BPM, so it made it hard to gauge what being an authentic raver entailed.

When I got to college and met new people I remember one person being surprised I was into rave because they didn't think I looked like a raver. I asked what sort of music I looked like I was into and they said indie which is one genre I've never got into and absolutely detested it at the time.

More broadly I like my music to have a good beat and would rather listen to something hard and fast than something slow and soft. One of my big interests outside of music is motorsport which is all about speed. I'm also quite speedy in a lot of things I do so I guess that does say something about me as a person.

I'd like to think that a large chunk of my music taste is a lot more miserable than I actually am as a person

I'd say for most of my life I've enjoyed cheesy pop music, power ballads, boybands etc.

Does that reflect who I am? As not someone who cares about typically "male" things like sports, I guess you could say yes. 😅

On the flip side, I'm not good at expressing my emotions so the whole pouring your heart out singing power ballads doesn't work. 🤣

Edited Sunday at 20:333 days by Hassaan

Sure, music taste says much about a person, the same as other interests. The more diverse someone’s tastes are, the deeper the personality you can generally expect to see. 🫡

I mostly just love to immerse myself in music and sound for what it is. I'm an audiophile. But ofc there's also the emotional expression side of it which I also love. I don't feel like I'd fit neatly into any 'subculture' or whatever, BUT I am ofc drawn to some things more than others, and I've begun to make some correlations, such as:

My music taste is very varied / slightly all over the place and I still get very excited about discovering new interesting stuff. Correlates with open-mindedness and tendencies towards exploration / idea-gathering. I'm also pretty 'loose' in terms of identity, as in I don't have a strong one. 😅

I do listen to more so-called 'alternative' music than pop music, although I do listen to pop too. The alt. bit probably correlates with me generally being or feeling on the outskirts of a lot of mainstream things or trends, I can be quite 'behind' with that, and often I just have no interest. I really don't deliberately reject it, but I often don't naturally blend well with it. As always, with exceptions. 😉 Sometimes when I listen to poppier music, I feel things I'm not necessarily used to feeling and it perks me up in unexpected ways.

I also listen to quite a lot of atmospheric, ambient, experimental and at times 'abstract' music. I think that correlates insofar as I'm someone who enjoys my peace and quiet, setting a mood or atmosphere, to be left alone regularly to mind my own business lol, and I do also meditate when I can be bothered. I'm also very curious, and interested in unique viewpoints.

On 21/12/2025 at 20:14, My Random Music said:

I've gone through many phases which I guess in itself reflects me as a person because I don't like too much of the same thing generally speaking.

As a teen in the 90s rave music was my thing and it certainly went beyond the music. I saw a lot of the DJs had long hair so I grew mine, when I saw footage of raves I saw a lot of adidas being worn so I started wearing adidas myself. There weren't many others at school into rave, plenty were into house music but would turn their noses up at anything above 130 BPM, so it made it hard to gauge what being an authentic raver entailed.

When I got to college and met new people I remember one person being surprised I was into rave because they didn't think I looked like a raver. I asked what sort of music I looked like I was into and they said indie which is one genre I've never got into and absolutely detested it at the time.

More broadly I like my music to have a good beat and would rather listen to something hard and fast than something slow and soft. One of my big interests outside of music is motorsport which is all about speed. I'm also quite speedy in a lot of things I do so I guess that does say something about me as a person.

I saw some of your experience from the other side.

I had long hair and wore black in the 80s, when that sort of thing meant you were targeted for violence by certain types of people who were often House and dance music fans (obviously not suggesting everyone). It meant the Goths, Metallers, Psychobillies, Rivetheads, Indie kids and other alternative types hung out together a lot. Even the Hip Hop fans felt as outsiders with us too. We were known about town as the weirdo collective. The high street on a Friday night at kicking out time was a place to be on your guard every week but small local venues, pubs and clubs gave us a refuge.

Then about 1990, towards the end of the Madchester and Baggy scene, ecstasy really took off as the go to drug. Suddenly all the Ravers were growing their hair long and wanting to hug and love everybody, people they had previously been aggressive and violent towards.

It was a weird change and hard to trust but eventually a welcome one.

I'd long hated most dance music, except The Shamen somehow bucked this trend in the early days - at least until Sinnott died but it took The Prodigy to open further doors in '92/'93.

Looking back it is remarkable how much changed socially in the wake of the 88-90 music and drug scene in the UK

i'll let my music taste speak for myself 👀

I think my friends/family either know me for cheesy pop or melancholic songs. I’m good with either!

I think my music taste is a pretty good display of my ADHD I'm largely more drawn to melodies and choruses than specific lyricism, though not entirely so. I'm also always on the hunt for new stuff to satisfy my rubbish attention span...!

Yes.

It says "gay".

On 23/12/2025 at 10:30, Severin said:

I saw some of your experience from the other side.

I had long hair and wore black in the 80s, when that sort of thing meant you were targeted for violence by certain types of people who were often House and dance music fans (obviously not suggesting everyone). It meant the Goths, Metallers, Psychobillies, Rivetheads, Indie kids and other alternative types hung out together a lot. Even the Hip Hop fans felt as outsiders with us too. We were known about town as the weirdo collective. The high street on a Friday night at kicking out time was a place to be on your guard every week but small local venues, pubs and clubs gave us a refuge.

Then about 1990, towards the end of the Madchester and Baggy scene, ecstasy really took off as the go to drug. Suddenly all the Ravers were growing their hair long and wanting to hug and love everybody, people they had previously been aggressive and violent towards.

It was a weird change and hard to trust but eventually a welcome one.

I'd long hated most dance music, except The Shamen somehow bucked this trend in the early days - at least until Sinnott died but it took The Prodigy to open further doors in '92/'93.

Looking back it is remarkable how much changed socially in the wake of the 88-90 music and drug scene in the UK

You hear a lot of people who were there in the acid house days say that before the raves they'd be getting into fights in the pubs and clubs on a Saturday night.

The Prodigy certainly bridged the gap between rockers and ravers. Admittedly I hated it when they started incorporating guitars at the time because I was a rave purist but over time I've grown to like it. Still can't get into "Firestarter" though.

My friends know me for pop/dance music, accurate representation of me as I like what I like.