Music Taste

My music taste has changed so much over the years, going from electronic to rap to metal to experimental and then right back to electronic. I'll give a rundown below of what I've listened to.

During in my childhood, around 2009 to 2012, I never really had a proper way to listen to music. Yes I did have a PC for part of this time, but my priority wasn't to listen to music with it. I would listen to the radio whenever I was near it. One song I remember very well is Insomnia by Faithless, an awesome piece of dance music straight out of the 90s. Another was Firestarter by The Prodigy. These songs stuck with me all the way until today. Even God Is a DJ by Faithless again is another one that stuck with me. I remember one time my mom left her PC running downstairs in the kitchen, and I just went up and sat at the desk. Youtube was open and a video of Scatman was paused. I just listened to it the entire way through and I loved it, honestly. I never really revisited it, but I think when my mom came back I said "This is a good song!" or something.

Later around 2013 to 2015, I learned about dubstep. Of course I did, every kid knew about it. I thought it was the coolest music ever (and still do to an extent). I would initially listen to Youtube videos which had about an hours worth of dubstep mixes. I'd blast dubstep out of my PC speakers while playing Minecraft. I really thought I was a pro. The likes of Skrillex, deadmau5, Martin Garrix (not really dubstep), Knife Party were all go-to picks for me. I also remember I used to listen to typical house music, like club mixes of house songs because I thought that's what all the cool people used to listen to as well. A lot of NCS music, Pegboard Nerds and just any music from the Monstercat Youtube channel.

After my friend Jay introduced me to Biggie Smalls in 2015, I delved into rap. I initially started with 90s rappers, like Biggie, 2Pac and N.W.A. I really mainly listened to Biggie and I listened to him constantly. After my parents began a divorce in late 2015 and my brother dying in early 2016, I took his music more seriously, his lyrics more personally, specifically Suicidal Thoughts. I still listened to alot of electronic, though it very much depended on if I was in a good mood or not.

From 2017 to about 2021 I exclusively listened to modern rap. I could list so many rappers here but I'll just list some main ones. Trippie Redd, Lil Skies, Lil Pump, XXXTENTACION, 21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert, Tay-K, YBN Nahmir. 6ix9ine, Ski Mask The Slump God, Juice WRLD, Comethazine, Lil Xan (unfortunately), Lil Baby, Drake, DaBaby, Playboi Carti and many many many more. I don't even know why, honestly. I was introduced to a lot of names through high school, mainly 6ix9ine, Trippie Redd and XXXTENTACION by the likes of my friends, those being Owen, Shay and Bayley.

From 2022 to about 2023, I listened to a lot of metal and rock like Bring Me The Horizon, Deftones, Falling In Reverse, Pierce The Veil, Motionless In White, Evanescence, Slipknot and a fuck tone of Nirvana (a lot of Nirvana). It was a rough time period for me so that's probably why I did listen to it.

Nowadays, I listen to very experimental music. Due to the radio at work desensetizing and making me absolutely hate mainstream music, I've resorted to artists that would never ever make it into mainstream. On Spotify some include crxw, HEXXO, Xxtarlit, jorj1357, Yabujin, Rory in early 20s, c678924 and Purity Filter. Some more "listenable" music includes yaego which I LOVE, Cult Member which is awesome underground house style, also Sewerslvt and Cynthoni which are the same artist but amazing ambient breakcore songs.