Is one's musical taste subjective or objective?

[Heather Duval]

im not a fan of bieber he not doing "shit" songs since 2009
you should search before post your own opinion as something true but not surprised coming from insane with common sense

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

I am a bit divided on this issue and I am not able to find a consensus in my mind. Furthermore science has been telling us that one's personal taste in music can reveal how smart you are and your IQ level, so it shouldn't be entirely subjective.

[Heather Duval]

music has more to do with how is ya vision of life
people like u listen sad and weird songs
while someone fabulous who only think about money sex of course prefers to listen to lady gaga specially the song donatella and "the fame" album

[TheForeigner]

music has more to do with how is ya vision of life
people like u listen sad and weird songs
while someone fabulous who only think about money sex of course prefers to listen to lady gaga specially the song donatella and "the fame" album

Rock music comes in many styles and states of mind. It is not all sad or angry. Could it be that the similarity between you and Lady Gaga is that you both look like trannies?

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

A few examples:

"Pop Music's Brain Drain

A recent study by a Ph.D. student at CalTech suggests that different pop artists have different audiences. That’s not surprising. But it also suggests that musical taste is linked to intelligence. According to Virgil Griffith’s research, students who listened to pop stars like Beyonce and Lil Wayne are stupider than students who listen to Bob Dylan, Counting Crows, or Beethoven. The Griffith methodology is somewhat sketchy, to say the least: he determined the favorite bands of college students via facebook networks and then compared each college population’s musical preferences with its average S.A.T. scores. The results are one hundred and thirty-three artists and genres connected to average test scores."

In: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/goi...cs-brain-drain

"Why metal fans are brainier
A disproportionate number of bright students listen to metal.

A study published today reveals that a disproportionate number of members in the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (a body of 120,000 students which represents the top 5% of academic achievement) list heavy metal - or "metal", as its devotees these days know it - as their favourite kind of music."

In: https://www.theguardian.com/music/mu...ansarebrainier

"Why More Intelligent Individuals Like Classical Music

The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical problem in social and behavioral sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals are more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences than less intelligent individuals but that general intelligence has no effect on the acquisition and espousal of evolutionarily familiar values and preferences. Recent work on the evolution of music suggests that music in its evolutionary origin was always vocal and that purely instrumental music is evolutionarily novel. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis would then imply that more intelligent individuals are more likely to prefer purely instrumental music than less intelligent individuals, but general intelligence has no effect on the preference for vocal music. The analyses of American (General Social Surveys) and British (British Cohort Study) data are consistent with this hypothesis."

In: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...m.730/abstract

[Profileid]

But is it subjective to say that Mozart compositions are better than Justin Bieber's ones?

That's a good question. In the strictest sense it is.

[Profileid]

A few examples:

"Pop Music's Brain Drain

A recent study by a Ph.D. student at CalTech suggests that different pop artists have different audiences. That’s not surprising. But it also suggests that musical taste is linked to intelligence. According to Virgil Griffith’s research, students who listened to pop stars like Beyonce and Lil Wayne are stupider than students who listen to Bob Dylan, Counting Crows, or Beethoven. The Griffith methodology is somewhat sketchy, to say the least: he determined the favorite bands of college students via facebook networks and then compared each college population’s musical preferences with its average S.A.T. scores. The results are one hundred and thirty-three artists and genres connected to average test scores."

In: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/goi...cs-brain-drain

"Why metal fans are brainier
A disproportionate number of bright students listen to metal.

A study published today reveals that a disproportionate number of members in the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (a body of 120,000 students which represents the top 5% of academic achievement) list heavy metal - or "metal", as its devotees these days know it - as their favourite kind of music."

In: https://www.theguardian.com/music/mu...ansarebrainier

"Why More Intelligent Individuals Like Classical Music

The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical problem in social and behavioral sciences. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis, derived from the Savanna Principle and a theory of the evolution of general intelligence, suggests that more intelligent individuals are more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values and preferences than less intelligent individuals but that general intelligence has no effect on the acquisition and espousal of evolutionarily familiar values and preferences. Recent work on the evolution of music suggests that music in its evolutionary origin was always vocal and that purely instrumental music is evolutionarily novel. The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis would then imply that more intelligent individuals are more likely to prefer purely instrumental music than less intelligent individuals, but general intelligence has no effect on the preference for vocal music. The analyses of American (General Social Surveys) and British (British Cohort Study) data are consistent with this hypothesis."

In: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...m.730/abstract

Oh nice. I'm glad to see people listening to my favorite band are pretty smart.

[Heather Duval]

my friends who think to be hot likes hip hop becayse is the style that makes sense for their vision of life
most hip hop songs are about butts
music is for u feel the lyric and beat
if u are weird and freak u feel it listening to beatles and other stupid bands for unfabulous souls

[Amor Vincit Omnia]

subjective 90 %
objective 10%

[Heather Duval]

Rock music comes in many styles and states of mind. It is not all sad or angry. Could it be that the similarity between you and Lady Gaga is that you both look like trannies?

i only like glam rock and guns n roses, and maybe punk music
glam rock is very important for lady gaga style, the influence is on her the fame album