I beg to differ, soki. It's just that the good stuff from the past 10 years is REALLY hard to find if you don't know where to look for it. It's far easier to find the cream of the crop from earlier eras of music.
I agree, but for different reasons: The best music has most certainly not been written yet, and more and more people (assuming steady prosperity and peace) are able to make new music year after year. The "golden age" is, has got to be, "now".
MOST PEOPLE dont have music taste. They just listen to whatever the industry puts in their face. They listen to what ever is made popular by the industry and whatever everyone else listens to. People need to follow their heart more and not just go with the flow. Dress how they want and act like they really are.
jaja what you say is 100% true, but most people simply don't care enough about music to even bother and the people behind the industry knows that. music culture and sub cultures are slowly but surely dying, as pop music because ever more present in radio broadcasts.
If someone's happy listening to their popular industry songs tho, isn't shaming them for that the opposite of encouraging people to do what they really want, and act how they really are ~ maybe following the trend is what gives them happiness. like you said, people need to follow their heart. It's not anyone else's place to try and tell people how to enjoy things ~
i think a truly "golden age" for music is right now seriously you can discover bands, no matter how small, from all over the world and musical genres thanks to stuff like Bandcamp, soundcloud and youtube you are not confined to the stuff on the radio and tv anymore (which is shit right now) and the same goes for musicians now you dont need record labels who think your music is "markable", if you make music you can just post it online and get a fan base, make some money and even make it big, maybe not superstar big, but big enough to make a living with your music
Truly on point, if not for youtube & bandcamp, I'd not have a lasting love for Retro Wave & Chill Wave artistes. Nevertheless, thanks to my parent's influence growing up, there is appreciation for The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Eagles, to name a few and yes... Abba and The Carpenters. :D :D
Danny Chew yeah, I stumbled across most of my favorite bands while randomly browsing TH-cam and Bandcamp... And video game soundtracks I also inherited an appreciation for the beatles, blues music and classical music from my parents... Although my love for bands like Queens of the Stoneage sure as hell didn't came from them...
The more you listen, the more you like. I've heard people rant about how much better the music of the 70's and 80's were, but in reality the just stopped listening to new music in 1989.
I hated Korn, but since they are one of my dads favorite band, i kept hearing their songs for years, and now I like it. Also he was probably the reason why I mostly listen to Metal, but I was still exposed to pop music and some rap music (by that I meant Eminem)
Dude, vaporwave and black metal are my favorite forms of music, yet no one else in my family knows what either of those are. Vaporwave is too rad for psychology.
I truly enjoy all types of music from classical to rock, rap, club and everything in between. It just has to be good even though I would struggle to put into words what 'good' is. Just listening to one or two genres seems to me severely limiting and you are missing out on a world of great music out there. Anyone else feel like that?
Adam Key Same, I listen to : Pop Electronic Hip Hop R&B/Soul A little of jazz Country A little of rock Disco Funk Reggae Reggaeton A little of afrobeat New Age Video Games
Why am I not meeting people like you in my life? I've never met another person who'd vibe with me on every genre of music. I'm the only person I know who can go from Bach to Manson to Cube to Punk and so on.... I literally have sounds on my phone that are not even music, just sounds that go well together to my ears. Tired of seeing so many people claiming to be the same way until I vibe with them and they start looking at me sideways whenever I begin switching genres.
Dw i was born yesterday and I listen mostly to stone age era music. All these people using complicated instruments and enhancing their vocal range to make mediocre music when all you need to make good music are a few rocks, branches and some growls. I also feel like i was born in the wrong generation man, i feel your pain.
I'm a 23 year old Hispanic kid. What business do I have liking Frank Sinatra, Bill Withers, Sam Cooke or James Brown? I grew up around Salsa, reggaeton ,hip hop/rap & R&B. I'm even starting to dive into some country stuff. I theorize that every genre of music has a specific sound you like. Specific chords, timbre and major/minor keys that resolve naturally. These distinct but specific differences appeal to our different moods and can be found in every song we like in one way or another in many combinations. The same reason we like a band that produces a specific sound or a rapper that has a specific flow/ lyric/ voice combination.
Luísa Souza I invite you to listen to some Decapitated, Origin, Nile, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, etc. If you're good with that, I'll stand corrected. Please add other bands from a different less heavy but still dark genre like Mayhem, Shining, Burzum, Sargeist, Gorgoroth, etc. I'm just challenging your statement :P Please don't take it as an insult.
If you were raised around hip-hop and r&b, Bill Withers, Sam Cooke, and James Brown are not too foreign to you. That music has been sampled for a long time. So I'd think that you might just have some familiarity and be cool enough to get into it more deeply. And, really, with the internet, learning about all kinds of music has never been easier. It's a great time to be alive if you dig music.
I have actually been experimenting on myself when it comes to this, and the results are kind of the same. I first liked the music my parents and older sister were listening to, because that's the music i was exposed to. Later, in my teens, I started searching for music myself. Some music I likes instantly. While some music, for example progressive rock, jazz and classical music, I couldn't stand. But then I tried listening more to some of that music that I didn't like, kind of like you have to eat some foods a certain number of times before you start enjoying them. And then I started liking some progrock-tunes. And then some more. Today, progrock is by far my favourite genre, and I have also taught myself to like pretty much all kinds of music. Like the science in the video says, you start liking the music you get exposed to. But bear in mind that you can expand your library of likeness by exposing yourself to new stuff, even if you don't like it the first time! I now listen to Edward Grieg, Motorhead and Justin Timberlake in a day, and I love it! Don't give up on the music you don't like in the first hearing because "it's too complicated" or "too heavy" or whatever. Give it time, and new worlds will open for you ;)
classical music is nice only if you can find songs you want to here. there are so many songs that do nothing for me. and a lot of the time finding the good songs is not enough as most of the recording sound like they came from the 16 century.
I guess that's what you would call an "acquired taste", eh? Anyway I disagree with your conclusion - I have listened to "foreign" genres & styles quite a lot, yet they still don't really do it for me. Most (nearly all) of the music I listen to, I discovered on my own and this is the stuff I *actually* like! 🙂
@@BloodSprite-tan And that is true because most people don't have the attention span to listen to long concertos and sonatas and understand the emotional appeal. Classical music probably wasn't intended for general entertainment you need to actually understand it, which is much harder for those who are not musically inclined. And what do you mean the recordings sound old? There will always be newer interpretations of the same piece. Well, maybe they sound old because they are never edited using digital software and everything comes from the instruments itself, raw.
I remember moving from the city to the suburbs. I legitimately told myself I'm prob gonna hafta listen to more white ppl music now. Or wever. Wait, what did I listen to. I must just be paying more attention now bc ...I have no clue what's going on. In my defense I was like 8-9. Also, yes but no. Bc I do listen to some of my dad's stuff. But in my 20s I tried not to. My late 20s I must've went deep in those chambers bc I forgot my dad ever listened to yada yada. But I was also way more on yt. & Some of that stuff is foreign. But I don't like it bc the stuff they listened to almost sounds like yoddling but Asian style. Idk that's the only way I know how to explain it
im going to make predictions before i watch this cause why not 1. other people, like when youre young and a family member plays a type of music u start to like it and eventually grow up and like those types of genres 2. genetics, cause this is scishow 3. something about how the brain does shit hopefully im somewhat right
Well, I grew up listening to country music cause my parents liked it. Outside of couple singers, I really don't care for country music. When I was a teenager, I absolutely hated it.
One common intellectually dishonest tactic that these "golden agers" like to employ is to compare some pop puppets from today to some genuine artist from the past. Comparing One Direction to Led Zeppelin for instance rather than the more honest comparison of One Direction to David Cassidy or Leaf Garret. Every era has its mindless bubblegum and has its true artistry and that goes across the genre spectrum, too. Every genre has it's good stuff and garbage. The good stuff is remembered while the garbage is forgotten, giving us a distorted, glorified version of the past to which we compare our day to day musical exposure. Totally fucking stupid, right?
Yep. There is a reason noone remembers the Archies, but many know about and will remember the Gorillaz. Popularity doesn't even necessarily correlate with memorability or quality.
I checked out David and Leaf. They sure sound better than 1 direction. I don't like them but they sure sound better than anything I hear on the radio now. I am a millennial and I don't get zoomer music.
interesting. we can all agree on one thing though: the fucking GARBAGE mainstream music of today will never, EVER be called a "golden age of music". ever.
"Wow, look at me, I'm special because I don't like today's music." There have always people saying the exact same thing as you. About the music you like in fact.
Technologic, technologic, technologi, technologic, buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail; upgrade it. I love Daft Punk. Technologic is a song that stuck with me when I was a child.
Seconded. A '98 kid that listens to PSB, Depeche Mode, Alphaville and all those synthpop bands my Dad loves to play. As well as those 80s Cantopop songs my Mom plays often.
Onychoprion27 because that's rarely someones favorite song, or the song you had your first kiss with. That music is classic, most people know at least some of it but it's not the same as rock music. It will never have the emotional value (as the time it had such value lies a few centuries in the past).
Trekki200 What do you mean no emotional value? Classical music can be used to convey emotion and feeling much better than rock music. You can feel the panic in Edvard Greig's hall of the mountain king. You can picture the battlefield in the 1812 overture. In my opinion, classical music an tell a story far better than modern music can.
Trekki200 All the same it seems odd to omit such things. Graduations, weddings, vacations, etc. are usually punctuated by such music. As for emotional connection, Ma Vlast, Marche Slave, and Dvorak's Cello Concerto (among others) have yet to be bested by more modern works, at least for me. The ones that come close, e.g. Malcolm Arnold's English Dances, tend to eschew the "hit single" format of pop music, and their ability to develop themes lends them greater emotional impact for me.
I dont know dude, every time i hear moonlight sonata or Chopin's Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 its like i can feel the emotion coming through. I can only imagine what it felt like listening to classical music from the creators and live. Sad we didnt have cameras or recording devices back then.
A Purple Pigeon. Where do YOU put the line between noise and music? Why do you dislike it? Some dubstep is pretty bad, but there is some really good stuff out there.
Bruno Henrique Dubstep has the least amount of characteristics that defines music. The definition of music is: "Vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty form rhythm, melody, harmony, and/or emotion." Dubstep has none of those characteristics. You could argue it expresses emotion but i don't hear/see it. Also do name a few dubstep songs that you consider good, maybe i have just been walking into poorly made dubstep by accident/coincidence.
A Purple Pigeon. I can clearly see why someone wouldn't like Electronic music (there being a thousand subgenres of "Electronic" doesn't help as i don't really care what its called) but, i wouldn't go that far to say it has no rhythm, or emotion. I personally like a little bit of noisy music inside the EDM and/or Metal subgenre.
Music isn't about an era or golden age, it's composition. Good songs come in all forms and styles. Music taste is more about people being honest with themselves and others, a lot of people will lie or not really listen, then say yeah I like that. Others will ignore a good song due to bad experiences. Music taste comes from how open and honest you are with yourself and others. Good songs are good for very real measurable scientific reasons. Not this magical bullshit music taste. We all recognize good music, it's how smart you are to question your own biases. Biases give you your taste in music. People who actually pay attention like all types of music, most people don't pay attention, most people are very biased. And easily controlled.
As I said music taste is just you lying to yourself and others, it's built off of ignorance and biases, just like anything, people having "tastes" for specific races for example, and thinking others are bad. If you actually think and pay attention those biases go away and all that's left are cold hard facts. A reason why people think today's music is mostly bad is due to the audience it's targeted at, young people for the most part don't pay much attention to the music and are easily sold on vapid music. The music industry has zeroed in on a formula that works and sells. The lowest common denominator always wins in a game of numbers. sex, relationships, money, lifestyle. This is what kids are interested in and what most pop songs today are about. But even then some of them have good compositions.
Andrew Francisco country and rock and roll are essentially the same music with different accents and costumes. Well, modern country is mostly pop marketed to younger female audience. So many of the labels are really meaningless.
My music taste is really weird to be honest. I like both older stuff from the 60s/70s/80s, but I also really enjoy some newer stuff from the late 2000s and 2010s... I'm kind of all over the place
William Tannery think that's weird? according to the studies if our type of taste is set at our teens then I should have like the stuff that's produce during the late 90s early 2k but I can't stand those manufactured crap. and although I like like lots of different type of music genre due to my parents taste in good music from big band to rock but neither of them like metal besides the occasional kiss or other classic rock bands. in fact I'm more of a rock head while my parents are more towards easy listening
I feel you. I'm goth and love all that traditional goth stuff but I love "Bales of Cocane" by Horton Heat almost as much as I love "Bleach Blonde Baby" by Poppy.
I was born in 2006 and my favorite era for music is the 2000s. There are a few more modern songs I like from 2010 - 2022, but they're all underground, non mainstream ones. There's just something about the music from the decade I was born in that my brain really seems to like. I mainly listen to a variety of rock genres from pop punk to emo/post hardcore to metalcore.
Comments on her videos before - "She is not expressive enough", now - "Stop twitching... PLEEEEEEEEASE!!" Can you fuckers stop bitching about the hosts? Why the fuck is everyone so obsessed with the hosts on this channel? Especially considering this is a science/educational channel, where are you weirdos coming from? You're supposed to watch these videos to learn shit, no one cares if you like/dislike the hosts. I'm subscribed to a bunch of science/edu channels and this shit is only happening here. It's really weird.
I cant seem to follow it. I listen to metal, vaporwave, progressive house (the older classic gems), bass house, trance, hard rock, techno, darksynth, dark tech, 80s music, nu disco. They are all so damn different from eachother and yet nobody of my family (exept hard rock and the 80s music) know or have listend to it. Music is something so meaning for anyone and without it, it would be a whole different world without any dancing, vibing, festivals, parties etc...
I was born in 2000 in Iran and my parents both love pre-revolution classic Persian songs so I grew up on those. I have only one friend with the same upbringing and our tastes are almost identical. We both like orchestrated music like metal, progressive rock and movie soundtracks because the old songs we grew up with relied heavily on orchestration and melody.
Best music 1. Classical (will always be #1 and everyone knows that) 2. Gold era pop groove music (Earth Wind Fire/ Michael Jackson) 3. Proper Hiphop and rap(songs with meanings and a story) 4. Rock 5. Party music (modern music, trap and edm with sick beats and bass)
Same, I'm into classical since i play an instrument but my parents (who are old by the way) unfortunately think that classical music is bOrInG aNd CaLmInG and call me weird
I was born in 1995. I had the fortune of growing up with TH-cam. For me it was a time machine, and still is. I didn’t get to just “hear music from the past” where you put on a vinyl. That was the extent of it. Unless you had unlimited vinyl you couldn’t access music throughout time. I was able to traverse music from the beginning of man all the way up till now and counting. I truly consider myself and my generation to be extremely lucky. This goes for basically all fine art. Film, art, poetry. All at my fingertips.
Yep! I'm a 41 year old GenX and I love 80s and early 90s music, but I also love the 60s and 70s music and classic country my mom played. She would play her old records and explain what the music meant to her. I have fond memories of those music nights.
No explanation needed. You don't need to justify or explain anything about your taste in music. Turning taste in music into a scientific conversation is BS.
There's something intrinsic about musical taste. When I was 1, I may have been completely content with a Barney tape, but couldn't stand to sit through an episode today at 28. On the other hand, there are home videos of me grooving to jazz music that I still love to this day. Once I like a song, I'll probably like it forever.
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Pish. It's a scientifically proven fact I have great taste in music.
This is totally true, my parents are always playing older music. May not be my favorite, but I see this being true. Especially since my mother is always playing her favorite songs and singing along to them, which encouraged me to sing along and get to know the lyrics. Really enjoyed this!
If you like music from the 1910's (if not older like classical music) up to today, even if you grew up listening to one genre you parents always played, then I can say you truly like and appreciate music as a whole.
Which misogynistic bullies, I haven't seen any. If people are saying they don't like her, it's because she's new. People said the same things about Michael.
Not liking her method of presentation does not equate to not liking her because of her sex. Indeed, even Michael got a similar treatment right off the top. If you think the correlation stacks, you're just a victim of strong bias.
My music taste comes from when I was a kid listening to my older siblings blast music around the house. This was in the late 90’s and early 00’s and I still love those artists and music genres best since then. Basically my music tastes come from my early childhood and have evolved more in depth over the years
Well now I'm confused! My musical tastes are all over the place. I love Classical, Baroque, Opera, and Celtic music but also Metal, Goth, The Blues, and Hip Hop. Lately I've also enjoyed Industrial, Techno, and especially Dub Step. **shrugs** I have no idea what that says about me.
80s and 90s for me, which is also when my mum would've been a teen/early 20s. She played her songs around us a lot, and I can definitely see the influence she's had
I hear all the young hipsters in the local tavern prattling on about Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven... but we all know that Pachelbel Vivaldi, and Monteverdi were the masters. Sigh... what are the late 1700s coming to these days? If this youthful trend in music continues those American Colonials might get rambunctious. ;)
I inherited my father's appreciation for classic rock, which is probably why alt rock is my favorite genre. And I love hip-hop/rap/r&B probably because I grew up in the 90s when they were the biggest genres on the radio.
Okay, just bear with me on this one, let's pretend we're on (le)reddit and have a civilised convo. I've been thinking about this for a while but I'm not passionate enough to go looking trough research papers, but I can at least type it here and get schooled or confirmed, or something. So: we like jokes because they play with our expectations and predictions, the smarter you are (maths are important kids), the less likely you are to be entertained by dumb joke because it's easy to predict or see trough. In the same way, music plays with our logic expectations and our liking of repetition, combined with the randomness of emotions. Music entertains your brain and makes you 'sing' along. Complex music usually means better composition and the messier it gets the more emotion there is, probably anyways. If you like music for fun you'll go for easy, or more complex, catchy tunes, you'll go for something that's easy enough to predict and repeat and yet clever enough to fool and surprise you. If you go for lyrics and emotions you probably think dance music is shit because there is "0 emotion" in it. Any combination of those two works and lets artists express what and how they want to. When someone does both of these things just right, you get yourself a sweet lil' timeless song, no matter when it was made, purposely or not. Now this is much dumb down but that's the gist of how I see it. Also, id really like it if this episode was more on how our brain perceives sounds, and what makes repetition, pitch and volume so important to my brain that I get the goosebumps when Justin sings to me!! that joke was unnecessary, sorry
I agree, but with a few exceptions. All music wake emotions in us, but different emotions in different people in different times and locations. More complex songs do not create more complex emotions, imo, just different ones. Happiness comes in many different forms, so as sadness or anger. Other music might be created for specific listeners in mind, because peers tend to have (somewhat) similar thoughts and expectations.
Yes yes, I wasn't trying to say it does, complexity itself doesn't equal emotions, it can be beautiful in a way but it has to be done right. Much like deep lyrics don't make a deep song if done poorly. And I also agree since I follow some producers that make very specific music, more for the respect of peers than anything else, a sort of bragging right.
First smart comment I found after 11 screens. Even if music were universal in what emotions it provokes \ stimulates / communicates (an old theory), it is about how people like to be stimulated to different moods, that sooth them, meaning reaffirm their view of the world and themselves. Listening to aggressive music does not make me aggressive but it does so to others. It might still communicate the same thing, just my reaction is different.
I don't think it works that way, both with the jokes and the music there is a lot more to music than expectations. e.g. major/minor. you don't even need a song, just two simple chords are enough to make you feel different emotions (happy/sad) - and there's zero change in complexity or expectations there whatsoever obvious example: 'time' from Hans Zimmer. the song is _really_ simple, repetitive, obvious, slow,... and yet people everywhere feel moved and emotional, and they love it, professional or no. it also wouldn't make sense that you may still like a song after years of listening to it and knowing every single note from every instrument also a _lot_ of other things are factoring into liking music, but I'm admittedly too lazy to google all of that myself right now :p (as for the jokes; I think that there is also a lot more to them than expectations - e.g. "smart" people can enjoy "dumb" (silly, obvious or repetitive) jokes (just think about how popular references are with almost all people), or less intelligent people do also enjoy the more complex ones (as long as they understand them, obviously :D) humour can also be kind, or dark, harmless, or about complex themes even when the actual joke is simple, etc etc)
Olivia you are doing much better with your physical presentation on camera. Your hand gestures seem more nature and under control. And I'm digging your style now. Nice job.
I think the best era for music is always the current one, it keeps increasing the number of artists out there, and with the internet everyone has a chance. Genres keep growing, boundaries are pushed further and even the most niche kind of music can have an audience.
@@misemefein100 Exactly. And if nobody's paying a fair price for music anymore, the bands will have to make the songs as bland as possible to appeal to a wider base- it's too risky to invest in another Queen or a Yes. It's not that great new music doesn't exist- it just takes a lot more work to find it.
Bah humbug on your "golden age", whenever the hell it was. There was no one "golden" age, nor will there ever be in the past. The "best time" for music is called "now", and will always be "now". What I or my parents heard as teens... no. I need complex, layered stuff I've not heard 100+ times before. "Lazy" (intentionally or unwittingly badly performed), "simple" (not much going on), "uneventful" (predictable, repetitive), and/or "derivative" (why change what worked for 50+ years?) music makes my skin crawl. I need new textures, contrast, concepts, tension, and complexity. Not saying that's "best", mind you, but the idea that there was ever one solitary "best period" for music is ridiculous. So, of course, what radio plays for nearly 200 miles in every direction of me? Top 40, "classic" rock, country, and Jesus-music. All of which tends to be repetitive, predictable, derivative, simple, and/or lazy. If not for music streaming services I'd have probably lost my mind.
Wastingsometimehere I agree, the most good music is from that era. But I wouldn't limit myself to that period in time, there is still plenty of good music being released, it's just not getting the recognition it deserves. If you wanna find it, the easiest way is on Bandcamp.com.
I was born in the 90s and grew up mainly in the 2000s and the early 2010s were my teen years. The 80s had the best music imo, then I would say next would be early 2000s and early 2010s for the nostalgia.
The term music, is ultimately objective in my eyes. In other words, some stuff that many people call music, I'm certain isn't really music. As the definition implies, it is made using instrumentals and vocals, but it also mentions an essence of beauty, which brings about various emotions. If you are the type that listens to half of a modern day rap song while talking to your friends, you aren't really listening to music; it is simply background instrumentals and vocals that bring about no emotion, but only fill the air with sound. If you are the type that feels a tingling sensation, gets goosebumps, or just feels at peace when listening to a certain set of songs, then this is truly music you are listening to, and it is likely that we generally have the same taste. It slightly bothers me when someone asks what genre I listen to as if I only listen to certain instruments and types of singing. If it sounds good, then it's music to me. I don't care if it's rap, disco, pop, rock, country, or anything else, as long as I enjoy it.
Singers from late 80s to the early 90s that rocked the Seinfeld mullet made some of the best music I've ever heard. Which kind of makes since I was born in 1992 and that's music my dad listened to.
I would like to go back in time to the 70s, 80s and 90s and play the old people who hated metal 2010s hip hop. They would change their mind and say metal is not so bad.
This is a reason why old music get revived to in movies and remakes and there always a hit because they were always good in the 1st place younger people just were not exposed to it. And when they are they like it.
I can't stand just about any music with lyrics (besides Dragonforce's Through the Fire and Flames, for some reason). I prefer orchestral or electronic, and very, VERY little else. Lyrics just kill it for me. Idk why, but hearing words in music makes me hate it instantly.
Emberstone Completely the same for me, except in the case of swing or big band or early jazz. For example, "Pack up the Louie" isn't deep or meaningful, but it feels like the vocals and the instruments are working together instead of competing. The human voice is there to complement the other instruments, not to overshadow them or to be directed by them. Like a dance, where neither individual is in charge, and they may not take the same steps, but together they make something better than they would alone (which would still be really cool). Oh, and also when I can't understand the language, sometimes the same applies too, though that's a lot less predictable. I guess hearing a voice without hearing words makes it more like an instrument. But yeah, in 90% of cases, lyrics don't really improve a song for me.
I could've answered this and saved all those studies! When we were kids, my older brother would crank his heavy metal tunes as soon as our parents left for work in the morning, and again before they returned home in the evening. I was *literally* raised on heavy metal, and I still love it to this day!
Gen *y* literally was in the golden age of music. at the end of the 80's, which is the 90's-2000 until 20+ Era. but musical taste is unexplainable! that's my opinion.
Do you mean umbrella term for various electronic music genres, like techno, trance, drum'n'bass and such? Then yes, I listen to this. Psytrance/psybient FTW!
The first song that I have a memory of in my life was a random anthem house song which apparently was quite popular in European clubs in the late 90s... My mom was a big fan of electronic music in her 20s and my dad is Dutch, it really makes a lot of sense that I like electronic music so much today lol
I feel like this applies to people less critical of music, those who put it on in the background more than anything else. As a musician/big fan of music I like to analyze things and show people that "music these days" isn't all the vapid Pop that people both love and hate on a large scale. Though I do agree that people almost always have a soft spot for music they grew up with. The reason people think the radio is garbage now is because the 'good' songs from the radio in their time tend to be the memorable ones. The forgettable tracks are well forgotten and leave you thinking only the better, catchier songs existed on the radio in that time, when in reality (like today) any five year span can only produce a handful of radio hits worth listening to.
It's called NOSTALGIA. I am playing music *now* that I first listened to on my dad's jukebox. And both he and my friends enjoy my recordings. So, yeah, if you are just honest with yourself, you will know where your roots are, deny them or not.
My mom was born in the 30's and I was born in the 70's and my son was born in 2000. I like a lot of the music my mom grew up listening to as well as music from the 60's and 70's. My son likes all of that music as well and one of his favorites is "You Dropped A Bomb On Me." by The Gap Band. That all said his favorite type of music is that which comes from a band organ/carousel organ. Even more so when he found the aforementioned song had been made into band organ music. :P - Heidi
I'm 24, born 1992 but my music taste is mostly anything before the 90s. I only listen to music before my time so I wonder if my children will be more familiar to my music taste than stuff from now in their teens.
The present time is always the "golden" age of music. Why? Because you can listen to any era and any song you want!
True.
People want to look for good music from the past because a lot of it now is really bad. :3
I beg to differ, soki. It's just that the good stuff from the past 10 years is REALLY hard to find if you don't know where to look for it. It's far easier to find the cream of the crop from earlier eras of music.
But the thing is the talent is no longer of the highest quality, a meaning may have, insignificant, to some at least.
I agree, but for different reasons: The best music has most certainly not been written yet, and more and more people (assuming steady prosperity and peace) are able to make new music year after year. The "golden age" is, has got to be, "now".
My taste range from "you've got to hear this" to "nobody must know I listen to this". =)
Vítězslav Ureš same, for me I have a really diverse music taste and a lot of people think it’s weird that I go from Fleetwood Mac to heavy metal
Firewolf4412 you my man, are perfection
Yes
Same here
@@evanblalock9744 heavy metal is nothing, have you heard of black metal? black metal will change your life my friend
MOST PEOPLE dont have music taste. They just listen to whatever the industry puts in their face. They listen to what ever is made popular by the industry and whatever everyone else listens to. People need to follow their heart more and not just go with the flow. Dress how they want and act like they really are.
jaja what you say is 100% true, but most people simply don't care enough about music to even bother and the people behind the industry knows that.
music culture and sub cultures are slowly but surely dying, as pop music because ever more present in radio broadcasts.
If someone's happy listening to their popular industry songs tho, isn't shaming them for that the opposite of encouraging people to do what they really want, and act how they really are ~ maybe following the trend is what gives them happiness. like you said, people need to follow their heart. It's not anyone else's place to try and tell people how to enjoy things ~
So my mom and dad are the music industry, and when I like the things they listen to it means it is pushed into my face
Yes, doge, that's pretty much it.
Nobody is "shaming" anyone as far as I can tell.
We have tastebuds in our mouth, so I guess we have *earbuds* in our ears. Is that where taste in music comes from?
Earbuds are horrible, headphones are better
More like hearbuds, since you don't ear music you hear it. lol
Templarkiller Gaming You missed the joke....
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To quote the great John Zoidberg "that was bad and you should feel bad!"
i think a truly "golden age" for music is right now
seriously you can discover bands, no matter how small, from all over the world and musical genres thanks to stuff like Bandcamp, soundcloud and youtube
you are not confined to the stuff on the radio and tv anymore (which is shit right now)
and the same goes for musicians
now you dont need record labels who think your music is "markable", if you make music you can just post it online and get a fan base, make some money and even make it big, maybe not superstar big, but big enough to make a living with your music
Hunter Rodrigez yes for some. No because the internet made some artist lazy
CHECK OUT MY TRAILER [BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS] please elaborate on the "lazy"
Truly on point, if not for youtube & bandcamp, I'd not have a lasting love for Retro Wave & Chill Wave artistes.
Nevertheless, thanks to my parent's influence growing up, there is appreciation for The Beatles, The Bee Gees, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Eagles, to name a few and yes... Abba and The Carpenters. :D :D
Danny Chew yeah, I stumbled across most of my favorite bands while randomly browsing TH-cam and Bandcamp... And video game soundtracks
I also inherited an appreciation for the beatles, blues music and classical music from my parents... Although my love for bands like Queens of the Stoneage sure as hell didn't came from them...
Yes!
I like almost all genres of music. I can go from J-Pop, to Rock music, to Classical music, to Rap music, and back. lol
Kodama Kind of the same, I like variety. I can go from country music to video game music in a second.
I agree though I do like weird stuff best. Like the Flying Lizards take on the Beatles Money. Or Blondi's Rapture.
+Thorn the Branch Nice suggestion, they sound awesome
The more you listen, the more you like. I've heard people rant about how much better the music of the 70's and 80's were, but in reality the just stopped listening to new music in 1989.
I hated Korn, but since they are one of my dads favorite band, i kept hearing their songs for years, and now I like it. Also he was probably the reason why I mostly listen to Metal, but I was still exposed to pop music and some rap music (by that I meant Eminem)
Can you explain me why am I into vaporwave? I'm only 21 years old.
lol i'm 19, i make vaporwave, and i don't even know why i like it.
Im a music hunter. I hunt for music that is different from what people listen to or music that has a original vibe to it.
No you are not 21 years old Moon man. You have been alive for eternity
***** No i have not but i just checked it out and i dont like vocals in english. Only on rare occasions. Check out Boney M Rasputin lol
Dude, vaporwave and black metal are my favorite forms of music, yet no one else in my family knows what either of those are. Vaporwave is too rad for psychology.
I truly enjoy all types of music from classical to rock, rap, club and everything in between. It just has to be good even though I would struggle to put into words what 'good' is. Just listening to one or two genres seems to me severely limiting and you are missing out on a world of great music out there. Anyone else feel like that?
Adam Key Same,
I listen to :
Pop
Electronic
Hip Hop
R&B/Soul
A little of jazz
Country
A little of rock
Disco
Funk
Reggae
Reggaeton
A little of afrobeat
New Age
Video Games
ehhh I listen to some pop, rock, but mostly metal
I'd never listen to rap,hiphop or pop
You should try brazilian Pagode you will probably like it.
Why am I not meeting people like you in my life? I've never met another person who'd vibe with me on every genre of music. I'm the only person I know who can go from Bach to Manson to Cube to Punk and so on.... I literally have sounds on my phone that are not even music, just sounds that go well together to my ears.
Tired of seeing so many people claiming to be the same way until I vibe with them and they start looking at me sideways whenever I begin switching genres.
im 3 years old and i still listen to 1940's music, is that normal? i was born in the wrong generation omg
Hey you're 6 now.
no
Dw i was born yesterday and I listen mostly to stone age era music. All these people using complicated instruments and enhancing their vocal range to make mediocre music when all you need to make good music are a few rocks, branches and some growls. I also feel like i was born in the wrong generation man, i feel your pain.
I worked in a jazz club in my 20s, it’s great music. (My first exposure) I meet some legends and mad friends with one.
@@Andrew_God17 😂😂😂😂😂
I'm a 23 year old Hispanic kid. What business do I have liking Frank Sinatra, Bill Withers, Sam Cooke or James Brown? I grew up around Salsa, reggaeton ,hip hop/rap & R&B. I'm even starting to dive into some country stuff. I theorize that every genre of music has a specific sound you like. Specific chords, timbre and major/minor keys that resolve naturally. These distinct but specific differences appeal to our different moods and can be found in every song we like in one way or another in many combinations. The same reason we like a band that produces a specific sound or a rapper that has a specific flow/ lyric/ voice combination.
Belicose777
My parents never listened to Jimmy Hendrix, CCR or Black Sabbath. They must have left me alone inside some music store.
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Luísa Souza good open mind
Luísa Souza
I invite you to listen to some Decapitated, Origin, Nile, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, etc. If you're good with that, I'll stand corrected. Please add other bands from a different less heavy but still dark genre like Mayhem, Shining, Burzum, Sargeist, Gorgoroth, etc.
I'm just challenging your statement :P Please don't take it as an insult.
Luísa Souza
:P just wanted to see how serious you were. XD
If you were raised around hip-hop and r&b, Bill Withers, Sam Cooke, and James Brown are not too foreign to you. That music has been sampled for a long time. So I'd think that you might just have some familiarity and be cool enough to get into it more deeply. And, really, with the internet, learning about all kinds of music has never been easier. It's a great time to be alive if you dig music.
Most good music today doesn't go on the radio or is as mainstream; The real gems are hidden in the rough.
I have actually been experimenting on myself when it comes to this, and the results are kind of the same.
I first liked the music my parents and older sister were listening to, because that's the music i was exposed to. Later, in my teens, I started searching for music myself. Some music I likes instantly. While some music, for example progressive rock, jazz and classical music, I couldn't stand.
But then I tried listening more to some of that music that I didn't like, kind of like you have to eat some foods a certain number of times before you start enjoying them. And then I started liking some progrock-tunes. And then some more. Today, progrock is by far my favourite genre, and I have also taught myself to like pretty much all kinds of music.
Like the science in the video says, you start liking the music you get exposed to. But bear in mind that you can expand your library of likeness by exposing yourself to new stuff, even if you don't like it the first time! I now listen to Edward Grieg, Motorhead and Justin Timberlake in a day, and I love it!
Don't give up on the music you don't like in the first hearing because "it's too complicated" or "too heavy" or whatever. Give it time, and new worlds will open for you ;)
classical music is nice only if you can find songs you want to here. there are so many songs that do nothing for me. and a lot of the time finding the good songs is not enough as most of the recording sound like they came from the 16 century.
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I guess that's what you would call an "acquired taste", eh?
Anyway I disagree with your conclusion - I have listened to "foreign" genres & styles quite a lot, yet they still don't really do it for me.
Most (nearly all) of the music I listen to, I discovered on my own and this is the stuff I *actually* like! 🙂
@@BloodSprite-tan And that is true because most people don't have the attention span to listen to long concertos and sonatas and understand the emotional appeal. Classical music probably wasn't intended for general entertainment you need to actually understand it, which is much harder for those who are not musically inclined.
And what do you mean the recordings sound old? There will always be newer interpretations of the same piece. Well, maybe they sound old because they are never edited using digital software and everything comes from the instruments itself, raw.
I remember moving from the city to the suburbs. I legitimately told myself I'm prob gonna hafta listen to more white ppl music now. Or wever. Wait, what did I listen to. I must just be paying more attention now bc ...I have no clue what's going on. In my defense I was like 8-9. Also, yes but no. Bc I do listen to some of my dad's stuff. But in my 20s I tried not to. My late 20s I must've went deep in those chambers bc I forgot my dad ever listened to yada yada. But I was also way more on yt. & Some of that stuff is foreign. But I don't like it bc the stuff they listened to almost sounds like yoddling but Asian style. Idk that's the only way I know how to explain it
im going to make predictions before i watch this cause why not
1. other people, like when youre young and a family member plays a type of music u start to like it and eventually grow up and like those types of genres
2. genetics, cause this is scishow
3. something about how the brain does shit
hopefully im somewhat right
eh, close enough on the first one
You also kinda got the 3rd one.. But only because it was vague as fuck.
Well, I grew up listening to country music cause my parents liked it. Outside of couple singers, I really don't care for country music. When I was a teenager, I absolutely hated it.
I listen to vastly different music than any family member I know.
I prefer metal, but I can't avoid rock because metal comes from rock wich is ore. See-->metallurgy
ffarkasm man, been a while since I've read a good geology quip...lmao
I don't think I'd ever make a good prospector though
#METALCLUB
Lucas Lambrey : WOAH!
Wow mate!
One common intellectually dishonest tactic that these "golden agers" like to employ is to compare some pop puppets from today to some genuine artist from the past. Comparing One Direction to Led Zeppelin for instance rather than the more honest comparison of One Direction to David Cassidy or Leaf Garret. Every era has its mindless bubblegum and has its true artistry and that goes across the genre spectrum, too. Every genre has it's good stuff and garbage. The good stuff is remembered while the garbage is forgotten, giving us a distorted, glorified version of the past to which we compare our day to day musical exposure. Totally fucking stupid, right?
Yep. There is a reason noone remembers the Archies, but many know about and will remember the Gorillaz. Popularity doesn't even necessarily correlate with memorability or quality.
Agreed!
I checked out David and Leaf. They sure sound better than 1 direction. I don't like them but they sure sound better than anything I hear on the radio now. I am a millennial and I don't get zoomer music.
Hilarious when people think led zeppelin achieved some amazing level of sophistication in music.
interesting. we can all agree on one thing though:
the fucking GARBAGE mainstream music of today will never, EVER be called a "golden age of music". ever.
Jiggle Diggle agreed
It's quite frankly stunning how you can watch an entire video on the subject and somehow still draw this conclusion.
Jiggle Diggle legit lmao it's actually fucking terrible with no meaning and inaudible words to make a profit
Are we an irony right now? If not, we should be.
"Wow, look at me, I'm special because I don't like today's music." There have always people saying the exact same thing as you. About the music you like in fact.
I would listen to the radio,
But somebody stole my car radio and now I just sit in silence.
Between having to listen to the radio, or silence, I'd say you should thank that thief.
Depends on the radio station.
I guess the radio was stolen by *TWENTY ONE PILOTS* then
Merlin Emyrs ayy
Aye
The golden age of musical intelligence was definitely the baroque era!
Bronk Tug maybe it peaked in the romantic era, with Strauss' Don Juan and the Chopin preludes.
Bronk Tug I would argue that the 'golden age' is subjective, but if I had to choose the 'most objective guess' it'd be the Baroque era for sure.
If it's not Baroque, don't fix it! :D
neverAskMeWhy07 look up some concertos of instruments that you play, or look into some composers like Purcell or Bach. There's Alot to explore!
Gyro nah, definitely Bach is the most genius composer ever, romantic music is more about the emotion, intellectually no composer comes close to Bach
Can you do one on cerebral aneurysms? I had one rupture at 19 and would love to learn more!
phantasm1234 +
stop fucking asking already. jesus christ.
phantasm1234 just fucking google it
phantasm1234 please find some new wording instead of copy-paste it's even more annoying that the anus jokes!
So a legitimate request is "more annoying" than an anus joke? Some great values you've got there.
So i like Death Grips because my parents showed me boney M
and ABBA
stay noided
No one can explain that.
STAY NOIDED
*sees boney m in the comment* ahem....RA RA RASPUTIN!! LOVER OF THE RUSSIAN QUEEN!
You got not business questioning a thing
Technologic, technologic, technologi, technologic, buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail; upgrade it.
I love Daft Punk. Technologic is a song that stuck with me when I was a child.
cool
Christopher Bazaka
:D
jadon thomas
What is that?
I love daft punk too, and their last album was the best imo
+spam hands musician. search him.
The parent thing proves true for me. I was born in 01 and I like any songs from the 80's-90's and my parents would've been teens in the years 82-96
Same here. Born in 96 and my favorite songs generally come from the 70's and 80's.
Seconded. A '98 kid that listens to PSB, Depeche Mode, Alphaville and all those synthpop bands my Dad loves to play. As well as those 80s Cantopop songs my Mom plays often.
Same thing, born in 82, love the music from the 50's 60's and 70's.
Same here, I was born in 2001 though I like the music from the 80s and 90s
But ... but ... why exclude Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Sibelius, etc.? from those studies?
Onychoprion27 because that's rarely someones favorite song, or the song you had your first kiss with. That music is classic, most people know at least some of it but it's not the same as rock music. It will never have the emotional value (as the time it had such value lies a few centuries in the past).
Trekki200
What do you mean no emotional value? Classical music can be used to convey emotion and feeling much better than rock music. You can feel the panic in Edvard Greig's hall of the mountain king. You can picture the battlefield in the 1812 overture. In my opinion, classical music an tell a story far better than modern music can.
Trekki200 All the same it seems odd to omit such things. Graduations, weddings, vacations, etc. are usually punctuated by such music. As for emotional connection, Ma Vlast, Marche Slave, and Dvorak's Cello Concerto (among others) have yet to be bested by more modern works, at least for me. The ones that come close, e.g. Malcolm Arnold's English Dances, tend to eschew the "hit single" format of pop music, and their ability to develop themes lends them greater emotional impact for me.
well said father of Russia
I dont know dude, every time i hear moonlight sonata or Chopin's Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 its like i can feel the emotion coming through. I can only imagine what it felt like listening to classical music from the creators and live. Sad we didnt have cameras or recording devices back then.
my golden age in music is 2012 dubstep, 90s metal, 80s rock and 60s funk.
well shitlol
Dubstep isnt music. Its noise.
A Purple Pigeon Whether you like it or not, Its music.
A Purple Pigeon.
Where do YOU put the line between noise and music? Why do you dislike it?
Some dubstep is pretty bad, but there is some really good stuff out there.
Bruno Henrique Dubstep has the least amount of characteristics that defines music. The definition of music is: "Vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty form rhythm, melody, harmony, and/or emotion." Dubstep has none of those characteristics. You could argue it expresses emotion but i don't hear/see it. Also do name a few dubstep songs that you consider good, maybe i have just been walking into poorly made dubstep by accident/coincidence.
A Purple Pigeon. I can clearly see why someone wouldn't like Electronic music (there being a thousand subgenres of "Electronic" doesn't help as i don't really care what its called) but, i wouldn't go that far to say it has no rhythm, or emotion.
I personally like a little bit of noisy music inside the EDM and/or Metal subgenre.
Music isn't about an era or golden age, it's composition. Good songs come in all forms and styles. Music taste is more about people being honest with themselves and others, a lot of people will lie or not really listen, then say yeah I like that. Others will ignore a good song due to bad experiences. Music taste comes from how open and honest you are with yourself and others. Good songs are good for very real measurable scientific reasons. Not this magical bullshit music taste. We all recognize good music, it's how smart you are to question your own biases. Biases give you your taste in music. People who actually pay attention like all types of music, most people don't pay attention, most people are very biased. And easily controlled.
As I said music taste is just you lying to yourself and others, it's built off of ignorance and biases, just like anything, people having "tastes" for specific races for example, and thinking others are bad. If you actually think and pay attention those biases go away and all that's left are cold hard facts. A reason why people think today's music is mostly bad is due to the audience it's targeted at, young people for the most part don't pay much attention to the music and are easily sold on vapid music. The music industry has zeroed in on a formula that works and sells. The lowest common denominator always wins in a game of numbers. sex, relationships, money, lifestyle. This is what kids are interested in and what most pop songs today are about. But even then some of them have good compositions.
Ppl would not even be allowed to say ding a ling these days 😅🥴..
rock, rap, country, metal, its all good to me.
Samantha Stevenson subtract the country and some of the newer rap and I agree.
no classical, jazz, or electronic?
Andrew Francisco just the rap part. And some newer country. Like, 2014 and up.
Next phase, New Wave, dance craze, anyways, It's still rock and roll to me.
Andrew Francisco country and rock and roll are essentially the same music with different accents and costumes. Well, modern country is mostly pop marketed to younger female audience. So many of the labels are really meaningless.
My music taste is really weird to be honest. I like both older stuff from the 60s/70s/80s, but I also really enjoy some newer stuff from the late 2000s and 2010s... I'm kind of all over the place
William Tannery this isn't wierd at all
No. Your taste isn't weird at all. It just means you enjoy music in general.
William Tannery think that's weird? according to the studies if our type of taste is set at our teens then I should have like the stuff that's produce during the late 90s early 2k but I can't stand those manufactured crap.
and although I like like lots of different type of music genre due to my parents taste in good music from big band to rock but neither of them like metal besides the occasional kiss or other classic rock bands. in fact I'm more of a rock head while my parents are more towards easy listening
I feel you. I'm goth and love all that traditional goth stuff but I love "Bales of Cocane" by Horton Heat almost as much as I love "Bleach Blonde Baby" by Poppy.
I was born in 2006 and my favorite era for music is the 2000s. There are a few more modern songs I like from 2010 - 2022, but they're all underground, non mainstream ones. There's just something about the music from the decade I was born in that my brain really seems to like. I mainly listen to a variety of rock genres from pop punk to emo/post hardcore to metalcore.
From the letter B. Beatles, Bowie, Beethoven, Bach, Beach Boys, Brahms...
Bob Dylan? Barrett! Brown! Beastie Boys!
Bymbonic Beath Betal?
TheDarkMessiah
Brother, you
Better
Be
Bold and
Bet on that!
bieber lmao
Agata Bilkova bollocks!
(jk, of course it's ok if you like Bieber )
Stop twitching... PLEEEEEEEEASE!!
Kelvin Kegel lol
Kelvin Kegel
If it helps, imagine her as a Muppet, as her movements are reminiscent of Grover.
Kelvin Kegel you thought i was a random girl twitching, but it was me DIO!
Comments on her videos before - "She is not expressive enough", now - "Stop twitching... PLEEEEEEEEASE!!" Can you fuckers stop bitching about the hosts? Why the fuck is everyone so obsessed with the hosts on this channel? Especially considering this is a science/educational channel, where are you weirdos coming from? You're supposed to watch these videos to learn shit, no one cares if you like/dislike the hosts. I'm subscribed to a bunch of science/edu channels and this shit is only happening here. It's really weird.
Kelvin Kegel I like to think of it as robot dancing.
I cant seem to follow it. I listen to metal, vaporwave, progressive house (the older classic gems), bass house, trance, hard rock, techno, darksynth, dark tech, 80s music, nu disco. They are all so damn different from eachother and yet nobody of my family (exept hard rock and the 80s music) know or have listend to it. Music is something so meaning for anyone and without it, it would be a whole different world without any dancing, vibing, festivals, parties etc...
I was born in 2000 in Iran and my parents both love pre-revolution classic Persian songs so I grew up on those. I have only one friend with the same upbringing and our tastes are almost identical. We both like orchestrated music like metal, progressive rock and movie soundtracks because the old songs we grew up with relied heavily on orchestration and melody.
Grew up to metal, now I'm into Psytrance, TechTrance, Drum and Bass, Techno.
Elektrolyfe I bet your metalhead parents are wondering where they went so horribly wrong. :-P
They allowed him to socialize with other weirdos. Luckily my dad listened to a lot of different musics, but mostly metal. (Korn and Tool come to mind)
Best music
1. Classical (will always be #1 and everyone knows that)
2. Gold era pop groove music
(Earth Wind Fire/ Michael Jackson)
3. Proper Hiphop and rap(songs with meanings and a story)
4. Rock
5. Party music (modern music, trap and edm with sick beats and bass)
jaja 0. your shitty opinion that cannot be objectively measured, you fuckwit
jaja you posted twice and that's your opinion.... man.
rock is disturbingly low on your list :P
Cuz rock sucks
where is prog rock?
Grew up listening to bands from the 60-90's from Dad. No wonder I keep coming back to these kind of music.
Cool, but I hate my parents musical preferences since I was a little kid.
It's not set in stone 100%, it's a general study. Most seemed to.
Abe G very good album in your profile picture
Same
Same, I'm into classical since i play an instrument but my parents (who are old by the way) unfortunately think that classical music is bOrInG aNd CaLmInG and call me weird
I think she's great.
I was born in 1995. I had the fortune of growing up with TH-cam. For me it was a time machine, and still is. I didn’t get to just “hear music from the past” where you put on a vinyl. That was the extent of it. Unless you had unlimited vinyl you couldn’t access music throughout time. I was able to traverse music from the beginning of man all the way up till now and counting. I truly consider myself and my generation to be extremely lucky. This goes for basically all fine art. Film, art, poetry. All at my fingertips.
one of my parents let me listen to green day when i was younger and now I'm a metalhead, how does that work?
i dont like her where is green
uncle bill on paternity leave
uncle bill you people are still complaining about that?
wow that sounds so weird, pls call him hank
Usually don't like Olivia's videos, but I liked this one
Yep! I'm a 41 year old GenX and I love 80s and early 90s music, but I also love the 60s and 70s music and classic country my mom played. She would play her old records and explain what the music meant to her. I have fond memories of those music nights.
So what's the explanation for individuals that aren't influenced in any way by their parents' music taste? First generation Americans in my case.
My parents don't understand how Daft Punk qualifies as music.
No explanation needed. You don't need to justify or explain anything about your taste in music. Turning taste in music into a scientific conversation is BS.
There's something intrinsic about musical taste. When I was 1, I may have been completely content with a Barney tape, but couldn't stand to sit through an episode today at 28. On the other hand, there are home videos of me grooving to jazz music that I still love to this day. Once I like a song, I'll probably like it forever.
Pish. It's a scientifically proven fact I have great taste in music.
Our free will decides our taste. If you give that "will" away a bit, then those around you decide for you.
Please do a video on why the apparent tempo of songs previously heard changes after you wake up or are sleepy.
This is totally true, my parents are always playing older music. May not be my favorite, but I see this being true. Especially since my mother is always playing her favorite songs and singing along to them, which encouraged me to sing along and get to know the lyrics. Really enjoyed this!
I like J-pop/rock and K-pop music.
I like some music, dislike others, I'm a normal person : )
ThunderGun2 Fucking weeb.
ThunderGun2 you have no taste.
ThunderGun2 That's okay. We all have our own tastes. I like folk.
Andrew Francisco you have no jamz
If you like music from the 1910's (if not older like classical music) up to today, even if you grew up listening to one genre you parents always played, then I can say you truly like and appreciate music as a whole.
Dear Olivia, never mind the misogynistic bullies. You do a great job. I look forward to more videos. From another woman in STEM.
Which misogynistic bullies, I haven't seen any. If people are saying they don't like her, it's because she's new. People said the same things about Michael.
Not liking her method of presentation does not equate to not liking her because of her sex. Indeed, even Michael got a similar treatment right off the top. If you think the correlation stacks, you're just a victim of strong bias.
Gerarda Cronin Oh boy! Muh Soggy Knees strikes again. sometimes the reasons why people dont like certain things isn't because of bigotry.
yayyyyy....more neoliberal buzzwords...just what we needed...thanks for that
Gerarda Cronin trump trump trump
My music taste comes from when I was a kid listening to my older siblings blast music around the house. This was in the late 90’s and early 00’s and I still love those artists and music genres best since then. Basically my music tastes come from my early childhood and have evolved more in depth over the years
Well now I'm confused! My musical tastes are all over the place. I love Classical, Baroque, Opera, and Celtic music but also Metal, Goth, The Blues, and Hip Hop. Lately I've also enjoyed Industrial, Techno, and especially Dub Step. **shrugs** I have no idea what that says about me.
80s and 90s for me, which is also when my mum would've been a teen/early 20s. She played her songs around us a lot, and I can definitely see the influence she's had
The Golden Age of music was obviously the Baroque Period. :P
Heresy! Modern classical music beats it all!
I hear all the young hipsters in the local tavern prattling on about Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven... but we all know that Pachelbel Vivaldi, and Monteverdi were the masters. Sigh... what are the late 1700s coming to these days? If this youthful trend in music continues those American Colonials might get rambunctious. ;)
@@q5sys You've never listened to Haydn, Mozart seriously. th-cam.com/video/udAGMaBa7Eg/w-d-xo.html
I inherited my father's appreciation for classic rock, which is probably why alt rock is my favorite genre. And I love hip-hop/rap/r&B probably because I grew up in the 90s when they were the biggest genres on the radio.
Okay, just bear with me on this one, let's pretend we're on (le)reddit and have a civilised convo. I've been thinking about this for a while but I'm not passionate enough to go looking trough research papers, but I can at least type it here and get schooled or confirmed, or something. So:
we like jokes because they play with our expectations and predictions, the smarter you are (maths are important kids), the less likely you are to be entertained by dumb joke because it's easy to predict or see trough. In the same way, music plays with our logic expectations and our liking of repetition, combined with the randomness of emotions. Music entertains your brain and makes you 'sing' along. Complex music usually means better composition and the messier it gets the more emotion there is, probably anyways. If you like music for fun you'll go for easy, or more complex, catchy tunes, you'll go for something that's easy enough to predict and repeat and yet clever enough to fool and surprise you. If you go for lyrics and emotions you probably think dance music is shit because there is "0 emotion" in it. Any combination of those two works and lets artists express what and how they want to. When someone does both of these things just right, you get yourself a sweet lil' timeless song, no matter when it was made, purposely or not. Now this is much dumb down but that's the gist of how I see it.
Also, id really like it if this episode was more on how our brain perceives sounds, and what makes repetition, pitch and volume so important to my brain that I get the goosebumps when Justin sings to me!! that joke was unnecessary, sorry
I agree, but with a few exceptions.
All music wake emotions in us, but different emotions in different people in different times and locations.
More complex songs do not create more complex emotions, imo, just different ones. Happiness comes in many different forms, so as sadness or anger.
Other music might be created for specific listeners in mind, because peers tend to have (somewhat) similar thoughts and expectations.
Yes yes, I wasn't trying to say it does, complexity itself doesn't equal emotions, it can be beautiful in a way but it has to be done right. Much like deep lyrics don't make a deep song if done poorly.
And I also agree since I follow some producers that make very specific music, more for the respect of peers than anything else, a sort of bragging right.
fuck off reddit
First smart comment I found after 11 screens.
Even if music were universal in what emotions it provokes \ stimulates / communicates (an old theory), it is about how people like to be stimulated to different moods, that sooth them, meaning reaffirm their view of the world and themselves. Listening to aggressive music does not make me aggressive but it does so to others. It might still communicate the same thing, just my reaction is different.
I don't think it works that way, both with the jokes and the music
there is a lot more to music than expectations. e.g. major/minor. you don't even need a song, just two simple chords are enough to make you feel different emotions (happy/sad) - and there's zero change in complexity or expectations there whatsoever
obvious example: 'time' from Hans Zimmer. the song is _really_ simple, repetitive, obvious, slow,... and yet people everywhere feel moved and emotional, and they love it, professional or no.
it also wouldn't make sense that you may still like a song after years of listening to it and knowing every single note from every instrument
also a _lot_ of other things are factoring into liking music, but I'm admittedly too lazy to google all of that myself right now :p
(as for the jokes; I think that there is also a lot more to them than expectations - e.g. "smart"
people can enjoy "dumb" (silly, obvious or repetitive) jokes (just think
about how popular references are with almost all people), or less
intelligent people do also enjoy the more complex ones (as long as they
understand them, obviously :D) humour can also be kind, or dark, harmless, or about complex themes even when the actual joke is simple, etc etc)
Olivia you are doing much better with your physical presentation on camera. Your hand gestures seem more nature and under control. And I'm digging your style now. Nice job.
I MIX JAZZ MUSIC WIT DA TRAP MUSIC
same shit really
Christopher Bazaka I beg to differ my man
Daniel Carville then why you mixing it up? check mate
Christopher Bazaka hahaha
Daniel Carville I MIX BLACK SOUL WITH SOME ROCK N ROLL
I think the best era for music is always the current one, it keeps increasing the number of artists out there, and with the internet everyone has a chance. Genres keep growing, boundaries are pushed further and even the most niche kind of music can have an audience.
Mainstream music took a _very_ sharp decline right after the early 2010s (i.e. 2012-now).
xXLoAfBlOkEXx 2012 was ok but 2013 and beyond has sucked (in terms of pop)
There's less money in music now....a lot less, if you take money out from an industry the quality suffers
Rap had degraded to probably one of the worst genres of music in the past two years. What happened to the countless stuff produced in the 90s
@@misemefein100 Exactly. And if nobody's paying a fair price for music anymore, the bands will have to make the songs as bland as possible to appeal to a wider base- it's too risky to invest in another Queen or a Yes. It's not that great new music doesn't exist- it just takes a lot more work to find it.
Fox D remember when Limp Bizkit use to be all the craze back in the early 2000’s? Oh god
I wonder if anyone who liked classical or older music, realises how much of it is in cartoons.
Hungarian Rhapsody no 2.
so what happens if I like classical music
You are awesome.
You get a high five
You will have to practice 40 hours a day.
I think my favourite era of music was from the early 2000s, but I think that's because it's what I've grown up with.
Bah humbug on your "golden age", whenever the hell it was. There was no one "golden" age, nor will there ever be in the past. The "best time" for music is called "now", and will always be "now". What I or my parents heard as teens... no. I need complex, layered stuff I've not heard 100+ times before. "Lazy" (intentionally or unwittingly badly performed), "simple" (not much going on), "uneventful" (predictable, repetitive), and/or "derivative" (why change what worked for 50+ years?) music makes my skin crawl. I need new textures, contrast, concepts, tension, and complexity. Not saying that's "best", mind you, but the idea that there was ever one solitary "best period" for music is ridiculous.
So, of course, what radio plays for nearly 200 miles in every direction of me? Top 40, "classic" rock, country, and Jesus-music. All of which tends to be repetitive, predictable, derivative, simple, and/or lazy. If not for music streaming services I'd have probably lost my mind.
Everything you like is linked to your memories. That's kind of who you are.
Am i the only person who gets angry just by looking at this girl
Anton Skadhede
Yep.
Anton Skadhede you might want to see someone about that anger management problem. Not healthy.
These videos feel like high school presentations. It's like they grabbed some random chump off the street and said "You present Scishow videos now"
Mid - 1960s to mid 1990s at the latest. Everything else just has minimal song numbers or quality songs.
Wastingsometimehere I agree, the most good music is from that era. But I wouldn't limit myself to that period in time, there is still plenty of good music being released, it's just not getting the recognition it deserves. If you wanna find it, the easiest way is on Bandcamp.com.
That's kind of where I fall too in liking music. Even the newer music I like now has many similarities with those eras.
I was already around when Wagner wrote his songs? Interesting.
I just noticed that too. Teen (19) here. My favorite decades for music are the 1980s and the 2010s.
I find my parents taste in music traumatizing if I ever have to listen to it.
edgy
Good songs don't have an age, only a future.
Man I'm just into anything thats got funk.
Same lol.
I was born in the 90s and grew up mainly in the 2000s and the early 2010s were my teen years. The 80s had the best music imo, then I would say next would be early 2000s and early 2010s for the nostalgia.
Doesn't really explain preferences in music genres
Yep
The term music, is ultimately objective in my eyes. In other words, some stuff that many people call music, I'm certain isn't really music. As the definition implies, it is made using instrumentals and vocals, but it also mentions an essence of beauty, which brings about various emotions. If you are the type that listens to half of a modern day rap song while talking to your friends, you aren't really listening to music; it is simply background instrumentals and vocals that bring about no emotion, but only fill the air with sound. If you are the type that feels a tingling sensation, gets goosebumps, or just feels at peace when listening to a certain set of songs, then this is truly music you are listening to, and it is likely that we generally have the same taste. It slightly bothers me when someone asks what genre I listen to as if I only listen to certain instruments and types of singing. If it sounds good, then it's music to me. I don't care if it's rap, disco, pop, rock, country, or anything else, as long as I enjoy it.
Member good music?
What7641 oh I member
yea i member
Singers from late 80s to the early 90s that rocked the Seinfeld mullet made some of the best music I've ever heard. Which kind of makes since I was born in 1992 and that's music my dad listened to.
But what about death metal? My parents sure as hell would never listen to what I enjoy.
I would like to go back in time to the 70s, 80s and 90s and play the old people who hated metal 2010s hip hop. They would change their mind and say metal is not so bad.
This is a reason why old music get revived to in movies and remakes and there always a hit because they were always good in the 1st place younger people just were not exposed to it. And when they are they like it.
I can't stand just about any music with lyrics (besides Dragonforce's Through the Fire and Flames, for some reason). I prefer orchestral or electronic, and very, VERY little else. Lyrics just kill it for me. Idk why, but hearing words in music makes me hate it instantly.
I like it when a woman has a nice voice in the song, otherwise I am a classical music type of person
Emberstone
Completely the same for me, except in the case of swing or big band or early jazz.
For example, "Pack up the Louie" isn't deep or meaningful, but it feels like the vocals and the instruments are working together instead of competing. The human voice is there to complement the other instruments, not to overshadow them or to be directed by them. Like a dance, where neither individual is in charge, and they may not take the same steps, but together they make something better than they would alone (which would still be really cool).
Oh, and also when I can't understand the language, sometimes the same applies too, though that's a lot less predictable. I guess hearing a voice without hearing words makes it more like an instrument.
But yeah, in 90% of cases, lyrics don't really improve a song for me.
This is my favorite sci show video so far
Tears for Fears
Shout shout let it all out.
***** Welcome to your life. There's no turning back.
***** what.
I could've answered this and saved all those studies!
When we were kids, my older brother would crank his heavy metal tunes as soon as our parents left for work in the morning, and again before they returned home in the evening.
I was *literally* raised on heavy metal, and I still love it to this day!
Hmm. . . I'm 13 and like melodic dubstep and future bass . . . .
First Name Last Name I'm also into electronic music.
First of all, sorry for your loss, because the only truly good music is Classical
@Templarkiller Gaming
you are blinding yourself to the truth
electronic is actually pretty good. not that classical isn't usually better.
First Name Last Name
I like these two too :)
Goat No
omg Olivia I LOVE YOU!
Gen *y* literally was in the golden age of music. at the end of the 80's, which is the 90's-2000 until 20+ Era. but musical taste is unexplainable! that's my opinion.
My music tastes comes from Tim Burton films, Video Games, and the Cartoons I grew up with.
2nd, and anyone EDM?
Lazy Town remixes are my jam
oh you bet! EDM is life
ElectricPixelz 11
Electronic music fan here!!!🎶🎶
SuperMarioCornDOG_Getalifetoday1 Me to brah :)
Do you mean umbrella term for various electronic music genres, like techno, trance, drum'n'bass and such? Then yes, I listen to this. Psytrance/psybient FTW!
The first song that I have a memory of in my life was a random anthem house song which apparently was quite popular in European clubs in the late 90s... My mom was a big fan of electronic music in her 20s and my dad is Dutch, it really makes a lot of sense that I like electronic music so much today lol
It's all good man; bluegrass, metal, electronic, rock, jazz. even Justin Bieber has a good couple songs if you look, and have an open mind.
That kid from Canada? You joking?
I feel like this applies to people less critical of music, those who put it on in the background more than anything else. As a musician/big fan of music I like to analyze things and show people that "music these days" isn't all the vapid Pop that people both love and hate on a large scale.
Though I do agree that people almost always have a soft spot for music they grew up with. The reason people think the radio is garbage now is because the 'good' songs from the radio in their time tend to be the memorable ones. The forgettable tracks are well forgotten and leave you thinking only the better, catchier songs existed on the radio in that time, when in reality (like today) any five year span can only produce a handful of radio hits worth listening to.
When did Rock die and get replaced with Gang culture music
rock never died... it just said fuck you to radio and tv and now it lives in the internet
Hunter Rodrigez
nope its all over on the radio.
The introverted internet using generation turned everyone into frightened little socially awkward emos and ruined any chance of real rock
***** Yeah Yeah blame the millenials old men
Keltic Sage you just gotta open your eyes for a minute and realize plenty of modern rock groups are still out.
It's called NOSTALGIA. I am playing music *now* that I first listened to on my dad's jukebox. And both he and my friends enjoy my recordings. So, yeah, if you are just honest with yourself, you will know where your roots are, deny them or not.
Nujabes
TheWalkingAmongTheDead hell yeah
I enjoy alternative, soundtrack/fan related, punk, emo, electronic, and rock, with a dash of instrumentals, hyperpop, and rap/RnB! :)
I only listen to Queen
My mom was born in the 30's and I was born in the 70's and my son was born in 2000. I like a lot of the music my mom grew up listening to as well as music from the 60's and 70's. My son likes all of that music as well and one of his favorites is "You Dropped A Bomb On Me." by The Gap Band. That all said his favorite type of music is that which comes from a band organ/carousel organ. Even more so when he found the aforementioned song had been made into band organ music. :P - Heidi
I like nightcores 😂 or pop ❤
Nightcore Lab Pop music fan here!!
vocaloids are cool too
Nightcore Lab
AHH WTF how can someone unironically like nightcore?
you should listen to real music, Rise against, green day, linkin park etc.
"linking park""
Nightcore Lab
Weeb
I'm 24, born 1992 but my music taste is mostly anything before the 90s. I only listen to music before my time so I wonder if my children will be more familiar to my music taste than stuff from now in their teens.