Our musical tastes peak as teens, says study

When the New York Times analyzed Spotify 's data, I found that the songs I listened to when I was in my teens are making adult the taste of our music.

For men, the most important time to form a music hobby is 13 to 16 years old. On average, when their favorite songs are released, the average age of men is 14 years old. For women, the most important period is 11 to 14 years old, of which 13 is the most likely age for their favorite songs. This study also found that the influence of women as children was stronger than that of men and that the key year of shaping taste is related to the end of puberty.

The New York Times analyzed the top songs from all billboard leader boards released between 1960 and 2000. Taking Radiohead's "Creep" as an example, NYT found that this song is the 164th most popular song among 38 year old men. When this song was released in 1993, these people were about 14 years old, this choice was consistent with the analysis. "Creep" is not even the first 300 songs born ten years ago or ten years later. At the same time, The Cure 's "Just Like Heaven" was released in 1987 and was welcomed by a 41 - year - old woman who was 11 years old when this song was released.

The data model is definitely right for me. My favorite songs are Stekoovonic's "Dakota" and Arctic Monkeys' s "505", both of which appeared in my teens. I am still listening to Green Day and Lincoln Park. I listen often at high school. (Please do not judge me). It is also worth noting that the impact of women and men of music heard in the early twenties on determining adults' preferences is only half of the songs that they have heard in adolescence.

Most importantly, the New York Times reported that if you wanted to find popular songs on Valentine's Day (ie two days later), Beyoncé will be recommended as Van Halen's 45-year-old "Crazy Love", 30 years old. For people it is "when it is love", and for those who raised the waves in the 1960's, Marvin Gaye's "Let's get started."

It is widely believed that our music hobby is basically consolidated by people in our teens and early twenties. According to scientists, this is from this point on, you can not turn to some crazy new type, but our basic music preferences are already designed for us and designed ing. When I find something that can be heard in the future. Let's think about the type of music that I listened to at the age of 14, for example. That has nothing to do with the music you are currently playing. Of course, it is not sophisticated, but the basic type you like may still be preferred. If you are truly a sad sack artist that is frustrating in mood, your music library may contain more genres and styles with music that is more irritating with mood than now. If you are 14 years old and hip hop, even if you have something more spiritual and complicated, you still like hip hop.

Musical hobbies: When our music preferences can not be accepted for life, 14 and 24 years old are actually 'magical era'. There are many reasons - these are the days of high mood and sexual awakening; people tend to accept more open and new ones when young; then as you get older, our Mostly I ceased to search for new music and kept treating everything as tremendous noise. The situation got worse. Our character is approaching in a few years. When we were 30 years old, we were almost forever - Harvard psychologist William James called it "semi-closed". This means your core personality measured by "Big Five", open, outgoing, neurotic, and due diligence features is discovered, and most of you stop changing after 20's I will