Open-earedness refers to an individual’s desire and ability to listen and consider different sounds and musical styling. Research has shown that adolescents exhibit higher levels of open-earedness, with a greater willingness to explore and appreciate diverse musical genres. During these years of sonic exploration, music gets wrapped up in the emotion and identity formation of youth; as a result, the songs of our childhood prove wildly influential over our lifelong music tastes.
I listened to music before my time when I was young. Newer stuff to but I definately have a thing. progressive, new wave, alternative, its all really new generations of what I like but plenty of rock outside those bounds that is great. I tend to like rock with more instuments and interesting sounds. Not so wild about beat centric music or imsple melodies. So like rap, country, and pop are my antimusic.