This is a really interesting question.
My answer is, maybe.
But I think there are about a thousand other factors too.
Music is such an emotional thing for me, although I’m grateful for my other senses don’t get me wrong, there’s something about sound that is the most influential for me.
I’ve gravitated toward every type of music.
I feel that music, like the sense of smell, is strongly tied to memory. Maybe you like some music because you heard it as a kid. Maybe you like it because your family listened to it. Maybe you don’t like it for that reason. Maybe you like it because you heard it over and over on that trip once. Maybe you don’t like it because something happened that you didn’t like while it was playing.
I feel like music can be like that, for this life and maybe, some music we respond to from some other lives, or from an experience in the collective that resonates with us.
I feel like music doesn’t really say so much about the person so much as educates the person or reminds the person about an emotional experience that can’t be put into words.
People change, sometimes quickly. What you like one minute, maybe you don’t like five years later. Maybe you still love it 50 years later.
I think it has more to do with the experience tied to it.
For me, anyway