Love your work. Makes me wish I could code - that's powerful!!! At the risk of giving you an 18 minute chore, a couple of my favorite long songs are "Hey" by Low and "Donnie Darko" by Let's Eat Grandma. Enjoy, or don't!
I always self-reflect on your "Age 15" as the general point where we lock in musical tastes. (Even younger in aggregate if I read your charts correctly.) While I certainly did enjoy music at that age, my tastes really came to the fore in college, fully immersed in the alternative/industrial/goth/post-punk scene. THAT is the music I return to (1986-88 being the key years) much more than my high-school or middle school era.
Your "hormonal" note hits home. Sure I was hormonal in high school, but I really spent most of my time playing role playing games and reading fantasy novels. I dated a little, but it was always more stressful than enjoyable... but uni? THAT was when I "came of age" as it were, fell in love for the first time, had lots of powerful relationships, got into art and philosophy and all that stuff. (And yes, played lots of role playing games, too.)
I do believe music love (espeially popular music) is tied to emotions... so it would be interesting to see if there are stats on when people have their most powerful emotional attachments. That kinda follows the "girls do it earlier" bit, as anecdotally, girls seem to have those powerful crushes and heartbreaks earlier than boys. How much of music "lock in" is tied to those emotional connections... not just hormones?
Love your work. Makes me wish I could code - that's powerful!!! At the risk of giving you an 18 minute chore, a couple of my favorite long songs are "Hey" by Low and "Donnie Darko" by Let's Eat Grandma. Enjoy, or don't!
Telegraph Road by Dire Straits. Under headphones (not ear buds....ugh!) You were right on about the age of acquiring musical tastes....mid teen years.
Taylor Swift - All Too Well?
There's always an outlier. 😁
I always self-reflect on your "Age 15" as the general point where we lock in musical tastes. (Even younger in aggregate if I read your charts correctly.) While I certainly did enjoy music at that age, my tastes really came to the fore in college, fully immersed in the alternative/industrial/goth/post-punk scene. THAT is the music I return to (1986-88 being the key years) much more than my high-school or middle school era.
Your "hormonal" note hits home. Sure I was hormonal in high school, but I really spent most of my time playing role playing games and reading fantasy novels. I dated a little, but it was always more stressful than enjoyable... but uni? THAT was when I "came of age" as it were, fell in love for the first time, had lots of powerful relationships, got into art and philosophy and all that stuff. (And yes, played lots of role playing games, too.)
I do believe music love (espeially popular music) is tied to emotions... so it would be interesting to see if there are stats on when people have their most powerful emotional attachments. That kinda follows the "girls do it earlier" bit, as anecdotally, girls seem to have those powerful crushes and heartbreaks earlier than boys. How much of music "lock in" is tied to those emotional connections... not just hormones?