It might be something like this. Great-grandparents like classical (Mahler), grandparents like jazz (Ellington), parents like rock (Queen), children may be ready to graduate from In the Night Garden to Gangnam Style.
Parents have an interest in finding some musical common ground with their children, if only for five-hour car journeys.
"Every father wants his son to follow his own football team," says Jeremy Summerly, a British conductor and lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music.
"And I imagine that every parent has some kind of innate desire to want their child to enjoy the same kind of music that they did."
But times change.
"The sort of music that was fashionable to the parent may have become distinctly unfashionable by the time the child is of the same age," says Summerly.
One parent who is navigating these reefs at the moment is Tom Hodgkinson, satirist and author of The Idle Parent. Hodgkinson is well aware of the risks in trying to shape a child's taste.
"There's an episode of The Simpsons in which Homer's in the car playing his 70s rock to the kids, and they just groan," says Hodgkinson.
But nonetheless he has tried, gently, to shape his children's' taste.
"For a while the four of us, my wife and I and the children, had piano lessons together. At the moment my son has got into the ukulele and he wanders around the house playing it. He's also in a band called Purple Inferno.
"Sometimes I'll be driving and I'll ask Arthur, my 12-year-old, if he knows the first two albums of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and he'll download them and play them in the car," says Hodgkinson.
"The other day I heard him playing along to the bass line of God Save the Queen - the Sex Pistols version, not the national anthem - and I felt pleased. I thought, 'That's my boy,'" says Hodgkinson who played in a punk band at university.
The cellist Julian Lloyd Webber thinks that you can't impose your taste on your children but you can guide them, as he did with his own son David.
"You want to introduce your child to the things you believe are the best. When my son was eight years old I took him to see [the Russian cellist Mstislav] Rostropovich. That's a special thing to have seen and it will stay with David all his life," says Lloyd Webber.
In other homes, the musical influences are passed on less deliberately.
"I can't say that I ever tried to shape my children's taste in music or thought about doing so," says Jem Finer, artist and founder member of The Pogues.
He says his daughters, Ella and Kitty, had to live with whatever was being played in the house and deal with whatever musical instruments were lying around.
While Finer was playing Captain Beefheart, the blues, Greek, Irish, Spanish and Turkish music, Finer's wife, the artist Marcia Farquhar, was playing the girls Bernard Bresslaw's comic songs, Beethoven and - when their father wasn't around - the Pogues.
Clearly something rubbed off. Ella, 29, has just completed a doctorate in the voice in theatre and Kitty, 27, is an artist and songwriter.
But sometimes despite all the efforts of the parents there isn't much effect.
"Some children follow what their parents say and what their parents like. They enjoy living in the image of their parents, and other children do precisely the opposite," says Summerly.
"If the parent goes Mahler, the child will go Lady Gaga."
Employing a bit of "child psychology" might be an idea. Knowing the tendency of children to rebel, if you want them to like your music, perhaps you might consider banning it in the home, says Summerly.
"You might find that all of a sudden the child thirsts for the string quartets of Haydn and takes to listening to them in private."
It seems that the musical environment at home does not necessarily influence what a child grows up to enjoy.
"I grew up in a house where, predominantly, classical music was played. And I couldn't stand classical music," says Finer.
"I remember [Sergei Prokofiev's] Peter and the Wolf being bought for me as a child and having no interest in it whatsoever," says Finer.
"I could only respond to much more basic, primal music, like rock'n'roll, until my mind developed," says Finer.
But what happens when the effort to shape the child's taste actually works too well?
For those parents tempted to wean their children off the current playground hit in favour of late classical and early romantic music - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, say - Summerly has a warning for you.
"You have to be very careful that if you introduce your child to that and they do follow you, they might alienate themselves from their friends at school.
"You could be stopping your children from growing up in a normal way with other children whose musical diet will be that of CBeebies," says Summerly.
Hodgkinson is well aware of the other problem that parents can find themselves in.
"I would kind of like to go see Metallica with my son but there's something terrible about dad and son being into the same band. It is my responsibility to hate it," says Hodgkinson.
Perhaps what Hodgkinson wants to guard against is a kind of arrested development.
"At the moment I am getting into medieval and baroque music. When I play it in the car my son just groans. Part of me feels that children ought to like different music from their parents," says Hodgkinson.
For most parents the desire to shape a child's taste is positive - emerging from the wish to share what they love.
Summerly believes that music can profoundly educate and guide our feelings.
"If a parent believes that music is first a mirror of the soul or secondly that it can actually encourage good behaviour or that it is a major part of educational development, then it stands to reason that the parent will try to foster the child's engagement with a particular kind of music," says Summerly.
Playing even the simplest musical instrument and playing together with other people is something that should be open to all.
"When I grew up... I was told I was tone deaf," says Finer, "so I wasn't even worth considering for any kind of music lessons."
Finer now plays the banjo, guitar, hurdy-gurdy, mandola, and saxophone.
Whatever parents do or don't do to shape their children's taste, they seem to find what they like. Perhaps all that parents need to do is to open the doors for children, introduce them, in Lloyd Webber's phrase, "to some of the greatest achievements of mankind" and let them explore at them their leisure.
"There are no mistakes, they will find their own taste anyway," says Lloyd Webber.
By Robin Banerji - BBC World Service. Taken from HERE.
Have your musical tastes been shaped by your parents' tastes or in spite of them?
My parents have a rather contrasting taste in music. My mother likes slow, mellow, religious songs and piano ballads, while my father enjoys rock and indie songs that have a good amount of energy in them. I remember my mother telling me that there was time when I was little, I found my father's Bee Gees music video CD. I was told that I sat in front of the television for at least an hour watching said music videos. I think my music taste is rooted in my father's taste but developed further through my set of friends. Coldplay is one of, and still is, my favorite band and I discovered them after my father played their album "X&Y" (Its nothing like their latest releases but I would still recommend it to people). Soon I grew a knack for listening to rap, hip-hop and electronic music later down the line. I think that in the future the music taste of parents and children would have difficulty lining up. Primarily due to the evolution of music and its sub-genre. Some genres that were not so popular then are starting to emerge and gain traction now, such as trap music and LoFi. It would be interesting to see what new music genres there would be in ten years time.
ReplyDeleteThomas wrote: "My parents have a rather contrasting taste in music. My mother likes slow, mellow, religious songs and piano ballads, while my father enjoys rock and indie songs that have a good amount of energy in them."
DeleteYou talk about "a rather contrasting taste in music" and yet you then talk about two tatses: you mother's and your father's. Starting with "My parents have a rather contrasting taste in music" makes it sound like they share the same taste in music and the contrast is with your taste in music. So...
"My parents have rather contrasting tastes in music. My mother likes slow, mellow, religious songs and piano ballads, while my father enjoys rock and indie songs that have a good amount of energy in them."
When people ask what kind of music I listen to, I never really know what to answer. Genuinely speaking, I listen to so many songs from variety of genres. But I have to admit, almost half of the songs I listen to came from my father’s playlist. Bee Gees, Earth Wind and Fire, The Carpenters, Phil Collins, Elton John are some examples.
ReplyDeleteFrom psychological point of view, an individual’s behavior to a great extent is influenced by the nature. That is, genetics and hereditary passed on from our parents. However, approximately 30% of our behavior can be attributed to nurture. That includes our environment, surroundings and other external influence. My father’s playlist are no exception. I grew up listening to the songs my father listen to and this leads us to have a similar taste in music. The influence of my surroundings does not only help shape me to become who I am, but it also influenced my taste in music. Even though a great portion of the songs I listen to are from my parents, I do have songs and musicians that I like based on my personal taste (e.g John Mayer, Ed Sheeran, Kings of Convenience). However, I believe that it is definitely possible for parents to influence children’s taste in music as parents are a huge influence on children’s life.
Jessica wrote: "I listen to so many songs from variety of genres" and "From psychological point of view, an individual’s behavior to a great extent is influenced by the nature."
DeleteBe careful with your (non-use of) indefinite articles. The words "variety" and "point of view" are countable nounds so you need an article if they are singular. So...
"I listen to so many songs from a variety of genres" and "From a psychological point of view, an individual’s behavior to a great extent is influenced by the nature."
Something else:
Both instances of the word "children’s" in your last sentence should be "their children’s". Like this:
"However, I believe that it is definitely possible for parents to influence their children’s taste in music as parents are a huge influence on their children’s lives.
I believe that a child’s personality, likes and dislikes are influenced through the environment they surround themselves in. So for the early parts of a child’s life, they may become familiar with the music that their parents play around the house, might even grow to like it, as proven by Jem Finer and Hodgkinson’s kids who grew to have the same music taste as their fathers. But this isn’t always the case, because as children grow up and get exposed and familiarize themselves to more environments such as school and the internet, they might find themselves finding genres and songs they like even more. They might prefer the type of songs that are ‘trending’ and may grow out of the songs they used to like. And that’s fine, because there are so many genres and types of songs that suit to one’s own individual likes and dislikes, so it’s normal for music taste to change throughout the years.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I don’t think there’s any harm in parents trying to show their kids music they like, due to the good intentions that they may both bond through another music. Even if their kids do end up hating it, it will help the child find what kind of music they prefer better, so parents shouldn’t avoid sharing their music taste for silly reasons such as ‘being alienated’ or such.
Chelsea wrote: "That being said, I don’t think there’s any harm in parents trying to show their kids music they like, due to the good intentions that they may both bond through another music."
DeleteThe word "music" here is an uncountable noun. So, you can't say "another music". The word "another" works with countable nouns, e.g. "I am not aware of another point of view" or "they eat another variety of rice in Thailand". You could say "they may both bond through another genre of music." This is OK because "genre" is a countable noun.
Every parents have a tendency to introduce their taste of music to their children. They expect to share the same genre of music with their sons and daughters. However, the children may have different reactions to it. They can either meet their parents’ expectations or try to act against it. In the first period of the children’s life, the only social agent in their life is only their parent and family. Hence, the parents are most likely to influence their child’s taste and preferences on music. As the children matured, they will have more social agents such as their school, peers, and also the technology that developed rapidly. They will discover wider range of music genre and eventually find a certain genre that suit them well. In my personal experience, I am intrigued with several genres and one of them is a classical old songs that was introduced by my father. He always shared his taste of music and luckily I was influenced by his preferences.
ReplyDeleteDita wrote: "Every parents have a tendency to introduce their taste of music to their children."
DeleteIt should be "every parent" (singular). The noun following the word "every" is always singular, e.g. "every time I see your face my heart beats faster" or "there is a 'Jalan Sudirman' in every city in Indonesia". This means it should be "Every parent HAS" (not HAVE).
By the way, it's "taste in music" (and not "taste OF music").
If we go back some years, the word "their" (2x) would have been considered incorrect in the second half of your sentence. When I was young, I would have been told to write it like this: "Every parent has a tendency to introduce HIS OR HER taste in music to their children." However, nowadays it is acceptable to use "their" to refer to A PERSON when we don't know or don't want tp specify the gender.
I personally love music, I’ve listened to it everyday from I woke up until I go to bed. Music are essential in life, it gives us the feelings of someone else’s voice that has an unnormal everyday language for the lyrics and some of them even combined with the instruments played, and when it synchronized it can be an enjoyment for people to hear. A catchphrase once spoken, “music to my ears” which symbolized that a word or sentences that are spoken from people can make other people at ease hearing it and want to hear it more. Anyway, my kind of music has genres of actually everything on average which when I hear some, I can mostly adapt to it. Although my parents genres are slow music, like my father who likes Indonesian love songs from year 2008 but he can also adapt to slow songs that got released nowadays. When I was a kid, my mother loves jazz so much that she has full cover songs of them in cassette. But she can adapt to music in one specific genre, pop, such as “uptown funk – By: Bruno Marsh” and others, which she wants most of them to be downloaded.
ReplyDeleteAl wrote: "Although my parents genres are slow music, like my father who likes Indonesian love songs from year 2008 but he can also adapt to slow songs that got released nowadays."
DeleteThis sounds like an incomplete sentence. "Although my parents' genres are slow music, ..." then what? The next phrase starts with "like my father" which sounds like an example to illustrate the genres you'd just mentioned. That phrase needs to be ended with a comma after "2008". Then there is a problem: the word "but". This is what makes this sentence sound strange. This is the mistake you are making (and I think it is an example of 'mother tongue interference'):
In English, when we start a phrase with "Although", after the comma that ends that phrase, we do NOT have the word "but".
Examples:
WRONG: "Although I am middle aged, but I like a lot of the musice that young people enjoy nowadays."
RIGHT: "Although I am middle aged, I like a lot of the musice that young people enjoy nowadays."
So compare your sentence to my version of it:
"Although my parents favourite genre is old, slow music, like my father who likes Indonesian love songs from year 2008, he can also adapt to slow songs that got released nowadays."
I wrote: ""Although my parents favourite genre is old, slow music, like my father who likes Indonesian love songs from year 2008, he can also adapt to slow songs that got released nowadays."
DeleteOf course, it should be PARENTS' with an apostrophe!
“You can't impose your taste on your children but you can guide them”; I cannot agree more with this phrase. I found it crucial for a kid to feel free to explore the options and to be able to choose by himself. In that way, the kid will be more secure about himself and, in a future, be able to make decisions more easily. Parents task is to introduce their child to the things, they believe are the best. However, no in all of the cases the parents are 100% right. I am talking about a more general concept not only about the music taste. Nevertheless, this theory can be applied for many other decisions, kids have to make, for example: what music instrument they want to play, what sport they want to do and even what kind of friends they want to have. Anyways, coming back to the music, in my case, I got to choose the music I like without my parents pressure. My favorite music genre is instrumental and Latin American. I remember when I was small my dad use to put my brothers and me in his bed and play some Andrea Bocelli and ENYA, so we could fall asleep. Now a days, every time I feel stressed or have insomnia, I hear that music and is an immediate drug for me.
ReplyDeleteI am one of those kids whose parents indirectly influenced their children’s tastes in music. My old man introduced me to progressive rock bands such as Genesis, The Police, Queen, and Led Zeppelin. On the other hand, my mother, who is an avid jazz music fan, often took me to jazz gigs such as the Java Jazz, and even UGM’s very own Economics Jazz. My mother is a big fan of EWF (Earth, Wind and Fire), George Benson, and David Foster; she collects hundreds of cassettes, CDs, and vinyl recordings of those aforementioned artists. She has also met those artists in person and she managed to get some of her CDs signed. Due to her devotion to music, I am inspired to be as enthusiastic as she is towards the artists that she loves. As I grew older, I discovered that I am open to any kind of music as long as it is pleasing in the ears; I can listen to both Flume and Dewa 19 and will not be bothered about it.
ReplyDeleteThe broadness of music tastes that run in my family makes me feel that I am more cultured than most of my friends who prefer pop music. If I have to be blatantly honest, musical preferences of a person determine the quality of relationship I should have with that particular person. At times, some people are labelling me as an edgy person but I could not care less to their opinions, as I am true to my self and to my music taste.
For me personally, i like music better than anyone else in my family. I rarely hear my parents listen to music. So, since i was a kid, my parents never introduce me songs that they like. Well actually have heard them listened to music, and that's only once in my life. They are listening to somekind of old western song maybe like an old american country song. So, if you ask me if my parents shaped my music taste, the answer is no. Me, personally, like pop music. Why? Because pop music is not too slow, that can make me sleepy, and also not like that kind of genre that pump up your heartbeat like rock music. That kind of music really refreshes my mind and emotion. Pop genre band that i like the most is Maroon 5. The singer, Adam Levine, has some kind of unique voice, that i've never heard someone has a voice like him.
ReplyDelete• I think it’ll be pretty hard for kids to have the same taste as their parents in music, if not anything. I’m kinda lucky that my parents, especially my father has the same taste in music as me. We just listened to whatever is on the radio, and we just download it and create our own playlist. I rarely have any complaint about his music taste. But we do listen to different bands. I like simple plan, and he listens to Westlife. I think it is important that parents let their kids have a slightly different taste with their parents in anything. Because in the end, you son is a different individual on their own. I knew some of my parents friends that forces their ideal and values on their kids. While it is good, it is important that you let your kids have their own interest as long as it is positive. Because you can’t force your kids to become your exact copy. In the end, they can only be worse or better than their parents.
ReplyDeleteMy family have six members, and each of us have different taste of our own music. But my mother is the one who lead us, the children, to shape our own taste of music. Her all-time favorite singer is Iwan Fals and she also idolize Sheila on 7, the one of the best local indie band of Indonesia. As children, we travelled a lot on weekends to spend our family time together with a car. I believe it took five to seven hours each ride. She always put cassettes and CDs of Indonesia songs, but most of them were sung by Iwan Fals and Sheila on 7. Therefore, we remember most of the lyrics throughout the songs outside our head, and that's without ever read the actual lyrics on the internet. From that, our mother gives us two options of music, sung by solo artist or by a band with all kind of musical instruments and it grew until we discover our own taste in music which is based by our own each personalities. But still, what she teaches us about taste of music still be the key to find new good music to be worth listen to.
ReplyDeleteMy mother has never actually influenced me with her music explicitly. I am a type of person where as long as the music sounds good to my ears, I will like it. However, in certain cases, I can feel that my mother is trying to influence me implicitly. For example, she would use her phone to play her songs when we are in one car ride. Stereotypically, women tend to listen to sad songs. Especially here in Indonesia where most singers would create sad songs instead of a more fun toned music. Maybe, at a certain point, she did influenced me with her songs. I guess somehow, the act of listening to her music on every car ride is brainwashing. Due to that act, every time I feel sad, or down, I would listen to the songs that she played during our car rides. In conclusion, I can say that she did influence me with her taste in music indirectly, and it is only applicable sometimes.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I follow my parents taste or genre of music. My parents both love slow music, especially slow rock. They influence their music taste using the song of Aerosmith with the title “I don’t want a miss a thing”. Since that day, I really love that genre of music. Relating to the question, I believe that I can influence my son or daughter in the future of how they choose their music genre. A lot way of influencing is by playing our favorite song in front of them everyday in the car, house, even when they wanted to go sleep. This method can truly affect their music taste. But when they grow older, their taste might change because of their environment peer pressure. Teenager love to look cool by rock music so maybe they will get influence by their friend of genre which looks cool to impressed people around them. All music genre is good depends on their taste and also thoughts.
ReplyDeleteIn my family, we are given the freedom to choose whatever music we like. I personally like couple of music from different genres. Back then, my father used to introduce me to different genres of music from the old songs till the new ones and let me choose my own songs. Exploringyourmind.com state that music helps an individual to strengthen learning and memory regulates hormone related to stress, affect heartbeat, blood pressure, pulse and etc. Heavy or loud music would demand energetic or competitive behavior while musical notes have the ability to relax us. I think it is important for parents to introduce their children to every music that is available so that, their children would be familiarized and they would be able to choose the type of music that suits them the most. As different genres bring different impact to an individual, parents could recommend songs to their children as they might like the same music or have the same taste of music.
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ReplyDeleteMusic has always been a key part of my life and it can be traced back to when I was still at around kindergarten. I frankly remember my parents playing tracks from the old but gold group "Bee Gees" and king of pop Michael Jackson. It can be said that my parents were the first to have influenced my taste in music. But this statement cannot be used to derive my overall preference when it comes to music, since my friends and other people I socialize with has influenced me also. In my opinion parents should not enforce any specific genre to their kids, because to do that it would limit their potential to develop their personality and mind. This is because from my personal experience, I feel that from a diverse choice of genres they can be credited to have shaped the personality that I own now. For example Jazz in my opinion has changed the way I perceive of how we should behave as men. Or maybe hip-hop has planted the motivation for me to get through the hardships of life and achieve a higher meaning. In conclusion I wish to say that parents should not force any particular kind of music to their kids, but rather introduce their kids to a wide range of genres. In an effort to equip kids with a wide array of knowledge and an open point of view on the world.
In my honest opinion, I think a family really can influence or set a child’s taste in music. A family is the first and, usually, the closest form of human interaction a child can have. Since childhood, a child is exposed to a family’s tradition and culture. That culture involves music. If a family tends to play a certain type of music or music by a specific artist or record label, a child might get used to the music and gain an affinity for it. For example, if a family exposes a child to classical music, that child might consciously or even unconsciously be attracted to more classical music as an adult. More specifically, I agree to the statement Julian Lloyd Webber said. I think, as he said, a parent can not force a child to like a certain type of music, they can only guide their children to the idea of music.
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ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I think the bigger factor to a child’s or a person’s musical affinity is the kind of music their friends like. Like I said, a child might like classical music if the child’s family tends to listen to classical music, yet if the child’s friend likes death metal music, the child is more likely to like death metal. From my own experience, my family tends to like more old rock or jazz music and I am surrounded by it. Personally, I think that those genres are very good in their own way, but now I have a liking to alternative music. Some of my friends like alternative music and I play a lot of games that initially introduced me to the genre. I think, although a family can influence one’s music preference, the friends and outer environment surrounding the child are the factors that can really make a statement.
In my opinion, someone could affect your taste in music, in my family, my parents always listen to rock genre such as Bon Jovi, Gun N’ Roses, Roxette, etc. Since I was born they always listen to that kind of genre and it makes me listen to one genre all over again and that makes enjoy the music, Plus they regularly bring me to Rock festival/concert, But by the time my sister was born, they rarely listen to rock genre because for them there is no great rock band in this era and they listen to pop genre. That affected my sister’s taste in music: Korean pop because she likes the choreography, melody and the good-looking member of the band. Me myself as the technology is developing, I found other genres because of the beat similar to the rock genre. Electronic Dance Music (EDM) and RnB music are currently my favorite genres.
ReplyDeleteWell, the answer to this question is it is depends. It depends on many things. Depends on the children itself, depends on the parents way to guide and teach, and also depends on the relationship between parents and children. It depends on the children because, it’s the children that will choose what to follow and what to like. If the children if someone who is easy to influenced (this also depends on the age; the younger they are, the easier they are to influenced), they will easily follow their parent’s interest. Well, there is some exception when parents have guided their children from a very early age, but still their children choose the other genre. At the end, we still can not impose our want towards someone, especially our children. Second, it depends on how the parents guide their children into certain music. Parents know what their children looks like and the way their children like. So, every parents should know how to guide their own child. Third, it depends on the relationship between parents and children. In my opinion, the closer their relationship is, the easier the children to follow what their parents like. Well, this is my opinion, and for the fact, we know that music is something that is personal that cannot be impose to someone.
ReplyDeleteEvery child will grow up to be whatever they like and want. What parents can do is to guide their children in the best way they know, so that their children will not get lost and eventually find their own way. Guiding their children is guided through every aspect, including music. When you have guided your children since early to good musics, they will just follow or turning into the other genre that they like. When children do not take what their parents have guided, that’s okay, since every child has their own rights and taste. What’s important is that parents have tried to guide their children in the best way so children will not get lost. If the parents didn’t guide children from the start to music, it’s possible that children will not get into music at all. When parents at least introduced children to music, children will knows music since their childhood and whatever genre they choose despite their parent’s guide is their choice.
ReplyDeleteWe listen to music almost everyday in daily life, we enjoy songs that we listen to on radio during a car ride or simply just listen to our friend's playlist on Spotify. What we don't realize is the music we listen to changes through time while we're growing up. When we were kids, our parents introduce us to children's music to help us learn to speak or mumble some words. I think it's unnecessary for our parents to influence the kind of music they wanted us to hear. In my family, we listen to different type of music genre. My father enjoys old songs from the 70s, my mom listens to songs sung by Celine Dion, while i prefer to listen to whatever on my friend's playlist. In reality, however, parents can't resist but be drawn to the experience of sharing music with their kids. This could also give a positive experience of bonding with parents through music shared.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a child, maybe 5 years old, I remember that my parents introduced me to classical music. They always gave me some classical music when I wanted to sleep. It could be Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and the others. Before, I didn’t know what song it is, but what I know just, this song was really comfortable and enjoyable for me to sleep. So I just follow my parent's guide because I greatly deal with the music. Then, they taught me to play piano about classical music then. Firstly, I'm not interested at all to play a classical instrumental because it’s quite boring. By the time, I don’t know like, accidentally, from that, I interest in music, so I search some genre music like pop, jazz, blues, rock, and so on, and I find it by myself. I love some genre like jazz and pop. So, in my opinion, the important thing is to introduce first the music to their children. Either they like it or not, it depends on him. But, my suggestion is to introduce classical music to them because it’s like the most natural genre compares to others.
ReplyDeleteCan you shape your children’s taste in music ? Well hell the fock yes. Our children inherits our DNA. And it is in our DNA that implifies how we do, what we like, how we look, etc. Furthermore, you can just put them on music classes on their early age to put some supportive music taste. And when you play them songs on the car radio or home theatre quite often, they might just somehow get the curiosity about the music. Nevertheless, as time goes by, new trends come. For teen especially, they tend to be affected by what is going on recently. Like today’s EDM for example. That thing didnt really interest the 80s kids, well yeah because the technologies were not sufficient at their time. And absolutely an undisputed fact is mood, feels, and teen’s emotions. As they come to their puberty, their develop certain phyisical and emotional interest. So they may find their own taste along the way. So i agree that we can shape our children’s music taste, but then in time they may find their preference due to finding their own trueselves indentities.
ReplyDeletePaul wrote: "Well hell the fock yes."
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When I was still in elementary school, I remember that my parents always listen to songs made by The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Sting, Phil Collins, Michael Buble, etc. Because of that, I also became interested to the songs made by those artists. Later, when I was in high school I started to explore my own taste in music. By doing that I started to look up to hip-hop and RnB artists such as Travis Scott, Logic, The Weeknd, J.Cole, etc. The funny thing is that now, in my days in college, I began to listen to what my parents usually listen back then. There are two possible reasons on why this happens. The first possible reason could be that because I am no longer living near my parents, I use the songs that they usually listen to try to comfort myself. Other reason could be that without my knowing, my taste in music had been the same all along as my parent’s (in other words, their doing in shaping my taste in music when I was a child is a success).
ReplyDeleteWhen a family has a same music taste, hours of exhausting road trip could turn into a super lit carpool karaoke. Well, that’s what happens in my family. I’ve done a lot of road trip with my family as far back as I can remember and I think, my parents have been using this “road trip” as an opportunity to brainwash us, their children, so we could have the same music taste as theirs. It works though. I enjoy listening to the Beatles, Lionel Richie, Westlife, MLTR, etc., since they’re in the car playlist. But as the time goes on, I think what happened now is the vice versa, which is my music taste starting to influence my parents’. Though, it could only happen because I’m the one who is in charge for the car playlist hahahaha (evil laugh). Well, it is actually really fun if the whole family could sing along to the same jam.
ReplyDeleteIf it comes to passing down your music taste to your children it is generally possible. Yet if it comes to its effectiveness, it depends on your relationship between parents and their children. If you act all strict and cold to your children, it is usually harder to influence their taste of music, of course one of the factor is because you hardly play any music if you are these kind of person. To approach your children with compassion and kindness usually the more acceptable way. Rather than forcing your preference on your children, sharing your view about music can be a friendlier approach which can accept rather easily. Another way is to make an example, and through this example you can indoctrinate your children into liking the same genre. Though it is not a guaranty your children will follow your path. The world is full of mystery, in my case it backfired to my parents, my mother stumbled upon my playlist and turns out to love it.
ReplyDeleteBased on some research I made, I believe the way parents could shape their children’s taste of music is by picking the right environment. Shaping children’s taste in music is just as same as the things our parents made to us long time ago. When we are younger, our parents made us conscious decision not to react or easily feel in a negative way to music, food, personality, culture or anything that we might have a different opinion or thought about. The reason of this action of our parents is so we could explore in a tolerated way to wide variety of music, food, personality, art, culture and even religion. Another important part that could shape children’s shape of music by parents is to have an exposure. Exposure could give a great influence to children on shaping them to like or dislike certain kinds of music. So all in all, environment and exposure are important in the role for parents to shape the taste of music in their children.
ReplyDeleteIn my family, we have different taste concerning music. My dad loves Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble, and Westlife. On the other hand, my mom loves keroncong, langgam, and campursari, basically Javanese musics. I wouldn’t say my parents shaped my taste in music, I’d prefer the word “influenced” because every single of the day, literally every morning, I have to bear listening to keroncong, and other Javanese musics. Not that I don’t like it, but my mom plays the same songs over and over again since only God knows. Whereas my dad, he doesn’t really listen to music much lately due to his work, but I remember when I was 7, my parents used to dance whenever My Way by Frank Sinatra played on the radio. As in for me, I love every genre, I love alternative rock/ indie rock bands especially The 1975 and Death Cab for Cutie, but I also love pop music, folk, jazz. I don’t know why but I feel like we shouldn’t narrow ourselves and only listen to a certain genre. Because every genre has its own characteristics. Anyway, back to the topic, I think nobody could ever shape somebody else’s taste in music because each has their own liking.
ReplyDeleteAs a child, I grew up with Indonesian pop-rock songs. This genre of music can be found anywhere. I couldn’t access the internet as much as I do now back then, but you can hear the music of this genre in televisions, shopping centres, radios, and everybody was literally singing these songs. Until now, pop-rock music is still my favourite, although I also like jazz, pop, rock-punk, and blues.
ReplyDeleteMy parents never forced me to listen to their favourite songs, they don’t listen to music as much as my brother and I do. Their favourites are songs from the 80’s and 90’s. To be honest, 80’s and 90’s music are good. My mother sometimes plays songs by Air Supply and Michael Learns to Rock, and I definitely like them, even though they’re not the songs I grew up with. One of my favourite movies called ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ has a whole range of collection of popular songs in the 80’s. After watching that movie, I realised that the 80’s has awesome songs worth listening to.
When I was a kid, my parents often played jazz, pop, and country music like Kenny G, ABBA and John Denver. But for some reason I have never had the same musical taste as them but I used to sing a song they play especially when I was taking a shower or playing in the yard.
ReplyDeleteMy music genre always changes every year. It all depends on what music is trending. For example when I was in elementary school I really liked hard rock music like Avenged Sevenfold and then I also started listening to Linkin Park. Right now I really like Electronic Dance Music (EDM) like Martin Garrix, Hardwell, and David Guetta.
I think the genre my parents like doesn't affect my taste in music. But this affects my habit of singing songs they like. Sometimes I also listen to the song they play to reminisce about my childhood and what I like the most is listening to country music but with EDM style which is called remix. Here is the example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_F1DyM_4fA.
My father is a great pianist, he would know the chords of a song just by listening to it maybe once or twice, and he would also play a lot of piano in his down time. Naturally, my father would like to pass on his passion to his kids: me and my brother. Me and my brother used to hate the piano lessons, a single seating of a lesson could turn into a heated argument between us and dad. Dad was actually not a bad teacher, sure he could get annoying sometime, but I understand the fact that he just wanted us to play better. The reason we used to hate to play piano with dad is that because he would have forced us what songs to play.
ReplyDeleteAs we got older me and my brother learned to communicate better to dad, and how finally reach a compromise; we would still practice piano, but dad can’t force a song for us to study. Every generation has a relatively different taste, if the music’s good enough, it will survive, but it can’t be forced.
Back in his high school years my father was a huge rock fan and he still is. When I was little I remember very clearly my father singing the lyrics of Winds of Change by The Scorpions, and although he rarely sings anymore I still hear him humming the song subconsciously. Suffice to say hearing it all the time greatly influenced my tastes in music, but that's not my only source of influence, my brother and sister always use to listen to Indonesian Pop Rock and that also shaped my music tastes. I wasn't really interested in music as I am now, for me music was always just something to set up the mood or something to be a background noise when I'm doing other things but as I grew older I started to listen to music as a hobby, sometimes I would get lost in the sound that I'd spent hours just listening.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, music taste isn’t something that you can fabricate because music taste is something that exists naturally. Growing up you may have a few people that influenced your taste in music which then helped you discover your own music taste. But I don’t think that parents can “shaped” their children’s music taste because music taste isn’t something that you can shaped into someone’s liking. For example, when I was younger I loved a lot of the same kinds of music as my father because he would constantly play them around the house and whenever we were on the road. But as I grew older, I stopped listening to the same kinds of music as my father’s because I have found music that I prefer more than those songs he used to show me. Music taste is something that evolved naturally. As you evolve as a person, your music taste tends to evolve too. In conclusion, parents should let their children listen to whatever kinds of music their children’s heart desire because even if they tried to shape their children’s music taste, as time goes by their children will eventually find their own liking in music.
ReplyDeleteTruth be told, my parents' are not the kind of parents that force their taste in music to their children's. However, they did introduce their children to the music that they listen to.
ReplyDeleteI grew up listening to The Beatles, Michael Learns to Rock, Queen, Chicago, Air Supply, and Bee Gees. Until now, I still listen to them because in my opinion, those songs are timeless. Moreover, they have certain meanings and memories attached to them. Everytime I miss my parents I listen to their type of music. However, my taste in music is not entirely shaped by my parents, because besides listening to the bands my parents' love, I also listen to more modern genre such as RnB and EDM. If I were to become a parent, I will not impose my taste to my children, but I do want to introduce my children to the things I believe are the best, and then they can choose by themselves just like jwhat Julian Webber Lloyd said in the article.
I can’t say whether I personally think you can shape your children’s taste in music or not because it all comes down to the person themselves. When I was young, my dad used to listen to bands and artists such as: Bon Jovi, Westlife, Metallica and Guns n Roses. Because his music was always on shuffle and repeat, I began developing a taste for his kind of music, in other words, I actually enjoy music from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s because of him. I started exploring old music further and I can conclude that music back then is much more meaningful compared to music nowadays.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I also think that your surroundings shape your taste in music. For instance, I have hung out with emo, rebellious people with long hair who are stereotypically known for listening to punk and depressing songs. After spending some time with them, I started growing an interest in their kind of music as well as developing some of their habits and traits. So, going back to the question in the title, no I don’t think parents can shape their children’s taste in music because it’s all up to them whether they’d accept it or not but on the other hand they can shape our taste in music by controlling what type of people we spend our time with.
Can you shape your children’s taste in music? the answer is yes and no. There are children who enjoy their parent’s music preferences, which becomes their preferences as well. One of the logical reasons is that they conform to their parent’s values, music tastes in this case when they were kids. Having family as the agent of primary socialization, there is a possibility where the taste of music that their parents have would be the same as theirs. At some point for some people especially teenagers, their music tastes might change when they were introduced to other genres of music from their friends. The widening of the music choices might lead them to switch their initial music tastes to others. Once this happens, for me personally, parents should not force their children to stick with their parent’s taste in music, since children should have the right to choose for themselves, as long as it is positive.
ReplyDeleteI think parents cannot shape the taste of their children in music, or at least not in a direct way, children tend to try to avoid looking like their parents, and want to be unique, especially teenager, therefore if you push a kid to listen to a certain types of music there is chance that the kid will not like it, but instead if you guide that kid to find those music by itself, like mentioned in the articles, there is more chance that the kid will appreciate it because there is not that parental pressure on it, that kid want to avoid desperately. I believe it’s important to also let the child find his own taste in music in order that he can built himself properly and discover what he like or not, and don’t try to shape him as you want it to be, but instead introduce them to music genre and if they like it they will pursue the research themselves and develop a taste for it.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to music, everybody has its own taste and preferences. Parent may try to make their children like their songs. But there is a possibility that the children won’t like it. When a child disagrees with the type of music that their parents like, parents shouldn’t force their opinions. Let the child choose his or her own type of song. Parents can introduce many other types of songs. And when a child found his or her favorite, parents should support while controlling them not to pick inappropriate songs. I personally like every types of music. I don’t think I have a personal favorite. I like rock, which comes from my dad. And I also like pop and jazz, which comes from my mom. My parents never forced me to like a certain type of song (actually I just realized it now). And it turns out great because I can know more variety of songs.
ReplyDeleteEvery parent definitely have a hope in their heart that someday, their children will follow them, in anything, even for the small part of their children to be the same with them. When parents want their children to follow their music taste, it’s not something hard to do. What parents should do is to make their children listen to the genre of music they like as early age as possible. Because, the earlier children listen to music, they tend to get used to it and get fond of it as they get older. Even if when children grows up and start to like other genre of music, the genre that their parents gave them in early age will still be there deeply in their mind and heart. However, it is also possible for children to have their own taste and doesn’t affect by their parents at all. In the end, it is a matter of choice and fondness that cannot be forced.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing that actually happened in my family is that my dad adores music. His favorite is jazz and this particular band called The Genesis. But my mom, she would rather have no music played in the house. But that doesn’t matter because that does not stop my parents to share their affection towards each other. It’s not that my mom hates it, but she prefers to have calmness and quietness. That includes having no music played whenever she’s around. Thankfully, my sisters and I, we love music. Therefore, my mom usually tolerates our desire to play a song during car trips or other activities. My dad’s interest in jazz does not particularly make jazz the only genre I love. I love what I listen and that could be any genre. Supposedly, I adore Jazz as much as my dad does. But, my adoration of jazz has come to an equal position with any other songs with different genre. So in my case, my parents, especially my dad, do not really shape a particular taste in music in me. He introduced me to his taste, but he gave me the freedom to explore more and decide my own interest or taste in music which also includes his.
ReplyDeleteI'm, personally, very intrigued by this topic. Music makes up a valuable aspect of human culture. The choice of music, is a huge aspect of someone's identity. So the question is, does our parents' taste in music affect ours?
ReplyDeleteI, personally, find this to be partially true. A parent can influence their child's taste in music greatly, if introduced from an early age. This is evident in my personal life. I enjoy the timeless wonders of Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, and Michael Buble, not to mention works like Beyond the Sea by Robbie Williams. But nowadays I have a mixed playlist containing various songs from very different genres including, but not limited to: Hip-hop, Retro, EDM, Rap, Rock, Country, and Pop. It is true that you can't force your kids to like your taste in music, but you can make them accustomed to it. Most people these days like anything from mainstream media, whether it Drake's next album, the new single from Rihanna, or the soundtrack from the last hit blockbuster movie. Which brings us to my next point, our generation can still grow a taste in classical hits from before the 2000s. I personally enjoy the timeless wonders of Queens, but there are others I grew fond of. Ever since the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, I find myself listening to music from the 70s, early 80s, and possibly 60s. So in conclusion, we can’t directly affect our children’s taste in music, but we can let them explore on their own, and who knows, maybe they’ll develop a taste in the same things we like.
In my opinion, I do think that parents can shape the taste of their children's music. The reason is that if you are used to listening to Jazz for example, you'll ended up liking it. But the problem is that as the time goes, their children would go out with their friends and ended up used to listening to other genre and they'll found their new genre. What I want to ask here is, why would you shape the taste of your children's music? Everyone can have their own genre to like. Even if you could shape your children's taste of music, why would you do that? It is just unecessary. Let them explore and learn. Anyway, thanks to this, I realise that all of my family members has their own genre each. My dad is really into jazz while my brothers really love rock and me and my mother is into pop, though my love for pop songs didn't come from my mother.
ReplyDeleteMusic is all about taste, and it is shaped by our natural interest or exposure to a certain type of music. My mom used to make me listen to pop-rock songs when I was a child. I was kind of fond of it, but then my friend introduced pop-country songs, which then shift my taste into it. Time goes by and I start to explore new music style on YouTube, Soundcloud, and et cetera. It turns out that the most favourable music genre of mine is acoustic and indie.
ReplyDeleteShaping children’s taste in music is very fine to do. Every parent will want to enjoy the same music as their child, but they have to aware in the first place that not every child is able to follow their parents’ desire. Their music taste might be affected by their friends or they might be surf new genre on their own will.
When we talk about music taste, we are talking about preferences. It is not something that we can shape however we want. But I do really think that we can get fond of one music genre if we are used to listen to one kind of song and in the end we grew fond of it. But going back to the first sentence, music is about preferences. So what this means is that we can’t have the same kind taste of music as time goes by. I do believe that parents are capable of shaping their children taste of music but as I said, because it is about preferences that children won’t have the same taste of music as he grew up, this can happened because a lot of things, for example : friends, environment, etc. So to sum it up I think it’s alright to try to shape your children taste of music because I think there is no harm in doing that. -Dimas Aditya Permana
ReplyDeleteA person’s taste of music, is based on their own personality, including your child’s taste of music. Can you shape your child’s taste of music? The answer is yes, you actually can. How? Through controlling their surroundings by playing the music that you like everyday, whether it’s inside the house, the car, etc. I can say that because of my personal experience. My father always played his music inside the car. As we all know that our parents kind of like their music based on their generations. My father played Kla Projects, Chrisye, The Beatles, Bee Gees, and other band of his generation’s music. As the result, I still enjoyed their songs. I still listens to The Beatles, Kla Project, and Chrisye. I even got my dad’s playlist on my phone. In my personal point of view, I prefer to shape my own taste of music, rather than listening to my dad’s music as I didn’t have that “Old-Generations” taste of music. In the future, I would let my children to listen to their own music, rather than “injecting” them with my personal playlists.
ReplyDeleteMusic is a universal language they say, music is a language that we all understand. Different people like different types of music. It could be jazz, pop, rock, or even heavy metal. Music at some point play important role in our life. With music, we could feel emotion and connection. Even sometimes we feel like music can understand us better than any other people. Because of that reason, that’s why we have a spot in our heart for music and we feel like we want everyone to like our music taste and hear our favorite songs too. That feeling encourage a lot of parents trying to shape their children’s taste in music. For me, actually I can’t tell about my parents music taste because I rarely found my parents listening to music. So, I never experienced about how our parents try to shape our music taste. What actually happened in my family is that the one who actually shape the family music taste is me and my siblings. Our parents listen what we listen and they enjoyed it. That’s why when I found out about this articles, it make me very curious and excited at the same time.
ReplyDeleteMusic is a significant thing in my life. My parents have never forced me into listening or liking their taste of music, but they have introduced me to their taste in music. They used to let me listen to the music they listened to when they were younger. Personally, I like some of the songs they have introduced me with. Music is unique, and I don’t think era or the time they were produced matter that much. Music is a way of expression, and I think people should be able to express their feelings freely, as long as they do not hurt anyone. I really think parents should introduce their taste of music to their children, but they really shouldn’t force their kids into liking or listening to it. Because, music can also help people get to know each other better. Also, by doing that, parents would broaden their children’s knowledge of music.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little, my mom used to own a large boombox and a huge stack of her favorite CDs and cassettes of George Benson, George Duke, and many more. She would listen to those songs every morning before my brother and I were about to leave for school. On the other hand, my dad prefers soft rock such as songs from Toto and Michael Learns to Rock, where he often plays it in the car. I think the fact that I listen to those songs much more than listening to children's songs actually shapes my taste in music, and it somehow reminds me of childhood. Now, I no longer use CDs nor cassettes to listen to those songs, however, I made a playlist in Spotify where I could actually listen to those songs in the car. To be honest, it made me feel like my parents are with me even if they are 500 km away.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I don’t put lots of thoughts into the music I’m playing since it depends on the mood I’m feeling at the moment. I must say that I do have fairly broad tastes of music, ranging throughout the 1950s to 2000s. However, bands and singers from the 1970s are my predominant favourites. Especially those with soft rock, pop rock and blues genres. Say names like Bee Gees, Air Supply, Eric Clapton, The Eagles, Sonny and Cher, Rod Stewart and many more. I couldn’t quite recall when exactly I started developing a sense of liking for these genres and artists but I remembered that my parents used to leave out ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ on the stereo while lounging on the sofa, washing the car or cooking breakfast and suddenly these songs just got stuck on my mind, kindling my subconscious mind to sing along. Growing up with my parent’s music styles has relatively influenced my personal preference and tastes and this proves that parents could actually shape their children’s taste in music. I do believe that this behavior is due to accustomization and habits children imitate of their parents. Nevertheless, as children grew up and experience different environments, their preference and tastes will also transform.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that the musical environment at home does not necessarily influence what a child grows up to enjoy. I really do agree with this statement. Based on my personal experience, I got my taste in music from what I’ve been “given” to learn. I can say that one of my favorite genre is classical, which have been entering my soul since I was a kid, but I don’t really know the reason why I love classical music. It is just because my parents pushed me to join piano lesson back then. I could say my parents don’t even understand this classical genre of music. So probably my first ever influencer in music was my piano teacher. My parents’ favorite that I could remember maybe is just the music from our country, like pop music, and I like that too, but it’s only because those songs were being repetitively played so that I could assume I would like the song. I can assume that until now, I do like many kinds of genres, that I developed it myself, just by searching and searching.
ReplyDeleteFrom my point of view, the answer to the question is it is depends. It depends upon the kids itself and also depends upon the parents or guardians approach to educate and guide the kids. This also depends upon the connection among the parents or guardians and the kids. It relies upon the kids since, the kids will pick what they want to follow and what they like. If one of the kids is someone who is easy to be influenced, he or she will be easier to follow his or her parents or guardians taste, especially music. I believe that this also depends upon how young the kids are. In my opinion, the younger kids are more easy to be influenced than the older kids. Because as you get older, you realize the things that you like and also the things that you don’t like along the way. But this also depends upon the kids whether they want to follow their parents or guardians taste or not. Because every individuals are different. I believe that parents and guardians can’t force their kids to be like them or even just liking the same thing. I also believe that it depends on the approaches of the parents or guardians to their kids on what to like, in this case, what music to listen. Because as the kids grow, the parents or guardians should know what type of music do their kids listen and like. Lastly, I believe that it depends upon the connection among the parents or guardians and kids. From my point of view, the most important thing is the relationship among the parents or guardian and their kids. The kids will be easy to follow their parents or guardian if the kids are close with them.
ReplyDeleteThe article is really reliable and the case is often found among us. I do believe that parents could shape our taste in music. I remember my father used to play Bee Gees in the Sunday morning when I was a child while cleaning the house and it is sort of like tradition in the house. When I was a child I did not really pay attention to it but when I stepped into high school years, my song playlists consist bee gees songs and other songs that have similar genre. I discover it might be because I have been so familiar with it, and I think my playlists have been influenced the memory of the past. That was from my father and my mother, she loves Bonjovi so much when she was in a same age as mine. Sometime she will give me stories of how she adores Bonjovi so much when she was young. From that moment I start to listen to Bonjovi. In the end our taste of music can be shaped by our parents whether it is because we have familiar with it since our parents have introduced it to us or we try to have a same taste in music to approach our parents.
ReplyDeleteCan parents shape their children’s taste in music? My answer is yes. Although the types of songs that parents planned to introduce would entirely depend on their children’s ages. This basically means that parents who try to impose their favourite songs to their children when they are still below six years old of age, will often find the efforts they have exerted to be fruitful. Also, I was referring to any kinds of songs coming from different genres and eras, not strictly limited to only a certain category. However, the later the parents try to socialise their children to like the songs they think are best, the nominal the effect will be. Especially once the children have soon developed their own preferences towards music.
ReplyDeletePutting my experience into a generalisation, it’s wrong for parents to assume that the preferences they’re shaping in their children are composed of something rigid. It would be better to see their children as some sort of clay where possibilities of constant reshaping is always available for both the children and parents.
Every parent definitely want’s the best for their children, either through education or experience. But when it comes to music taste, well the children could actually pick which side do they want to follow. Do they want to follow their parents taste or do they want to follow their own taste? Truth be told, I would actually follow both of them, my own taste and my parents’ taste. When they played The Queen’s song, Bohemian Rhapsody, in the audio player, I didn’t really like it at first because it feels like I’m an old man. But when I decided to listen to the song a little bit after, I really enjoyed it. But let me emphasize this, my parents never told me to listen to their song. The unexpected thing is that they actually ask me what’s trending right now. My point is, it’s up to you to choose what kind of music you like, your own preference or other’s preference.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a young boy, I used to listen to my father’s favorite band in his car. We were listening to this song for about 10 hours or more. Even though a certain song had been repeated for more than once, I still enjoyed the song. Until today, I still would listen to it and do not actually hate it, so yes. Parents affect our tastes in music. The reason why I am not listening to the music anymore is not because I hate it, but because there are lots of new song that are better. The influences that my father gave to me when I was a kid slowly disappear as I get older. On the other hand, my father is not interested in today’s type of music. He is still stuck in his own generation of music. Whenever I change the car radio to my type of song, he always want to change it back to his song or lower the volume
ReplyDeleteI grew up listening to Chinese music and also some Indonesian songs by Ebiet G. Ade, Iwan Fals, and Chrisye. My parents used to play these songs either at home or when we were going on a far trip by car. To be honest, these Indonesian songs were actually pretty good. While the Chinese songs, I really hate them. However, after so many years being exposed to different types of music, I realise that my taste of music is not the same as my parents’ and it is kind of unique compared to my friends’ taste. I enjoy listening to songs by Oasis, Sting, Eric Clapton, and AC/DC. Yes, all of them are ‘80s – ‘90s artists/bands. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy listen to music that are trending right now though, I enjoy some electronic dance music as well. But, the songs by the four artists/bands I’ve mentioned are still the most pleasant to my ears. So, can parents shape their children’s taste in music? I believe it is possible for parents to shape children’s taste in music, although the possibility for it to happen is minute. In my opinion, parents would only have influence on what their children like, either hobbies or interests, only until they are at the age of four or five. For the most part, parents would only be the one who introduce them to new things, in this case the taste of music.
ReplyDeleteI’ve always thought of my dad as a guy with taste. That includes his taste of music. I grew up to songs he plays and sings along on the radio or even just randomly plays it on his phone. He introduced me to some classic legendary bands such as Queen, Oasis, Beatles, a-ha and so on. But our most favorite band together would be Coldplay. Although this band weren't as old, their music is enjoyed by all sorts of people even with different age range. I always remember my dad being so passionate chanting over the lyrics of Viva La Vida, imagining that he’s actually watching it in concert. That dream actually came true last April, where we went all the way to Bangkok to catch Coldplay live in concert. The whole family, me, my parents and my sister included, were very ecstatic. It did not only excite my family, but also the whole stadium was raging with joy. I guess that is how music is considered to play a big role of bringing people together. The musician has a power to make their audience connect with them, like how it did to my family.
ReplyDeleteMusic I think is a very important part in everyone's life. Music can be used to communicate or express your thoughts or even to make boundaries between people gone. My family is a massive music enthusiast, my mother used to be the VJ or the presenter on TPI or now the MNCTV and she also a radio broadcaster, she likes to listen to pop 90's music such as Michael Learns To Rock, Kathy Trocolli , NKOTB, and many more whereas my father likes listening to new songs such as Dua Lipa, Calvin Harris, and Ed Sheeran. But my music taste is more tend to the old songs, I don't like new songs because I think it is too loud and too cheesy. Bee Gees, EWF, Peabo Bryson, Fourplay, Stephen Bishop are one of many artist I like because I'm very much enjoyed ballad or jazz music because I think it is relaxing and meaningful.
ReplyDeleteI agree that parents might influence their children’s taste of music. I have a friend who likes to listen to rock music because her parents like the genre so much; let’s say, Metallica, Guns n Roses, Queen, etc. But in my case, I don’t think my parents’ taste of music shapes mine. I don’t know if I do have a type either. My parents listen to dangdut, slow rock bands, even national anthem (yes, we have a playlist of various version of national anthem in our car. Trust me I’m as clueless as you are). On the other hand, I just listen to whatever videos on Youtube automatically play. Sometimes I found myself listening to indie songs or ballad songs. Sometimes it’s some local songs, and the other time is an English song that’s sung by a Thai singer I know nothing of. I don’t hate my parents’ choice of music, but I don’t really listen to them either. I think one’s taste of music is also influenced by external factors: friends, trends, and (in my case) Youtube recommendations.
ReplyDeleteIt was quite fascinating to read the comments regarding the article above. As I was reading some of the comments, I found that I have the same taste in music like some of my colleagues. In terms of my taste in music, I would consider myself as a mediocre teenager who listens to Coldplay, Maroon 5, and Ed Sheeran. Although they’re pretty common among teenagers, I have to admit that they’re the trending topic of the century. Coldplay and Maroon 5 have been around since I was in elementary school but they’re still the top in the music industry.
ReplyDeleteAccording to my opinion, I don’t think that our parents can shape our taste in music. When I was younger, I remember that my dad had always played old Indonesian songs by Ebiet G. Ade and Chrisye during road trips. Although I do enjoy the songs, I think that I am not attracted to those kinds of genre. My dad also likes to play songs by Eagles, Keane, and Queen. But one song that we all enjoy listening to is Leaving on a Jet Plane by John Denver. As I got older, I’ve always missed the days where my dad and my sister would play the piano together and we all would spend the time singing and having quality time together. So, I don’t agree that our parents can shape our taste in music but I do believe that they can introduce us to new music genre and artists that we might be in to.
I believe that child preference of music can’t be completely shape by their parents, although the parents still have some influence power to the child taste of music since they are the one who introduce their children to music. In my experience, my preference of music is mostly shape by my environment and my friend so my preference is not the same with my parent’s preference of music. My parents really like dangdut song and some old Indonesian music, while I really like some rock music that can burn your spirit. This example indicate that parent still have some influence since dangdut in general is burning your spirit. Other thing that can affect a child preference is their own personality and their age. When we are children we really like children song that easy to listen and always repeat the same patter, although the children in these days shifting their preference to more adult oriented song since the lac of children song.
ReplyDeleteShaping someone’s taste or preference towards anything seems impossible if we try to do it to an adult as they can set their own standard about things they like and they don’t like, in this case music.
ReplyDeleteIf you try to assure someone to change their taste in music and that person is someone that already can set their own standard based on their preference it is pretty impossible. But if you do it to someone who just unable to set their own standard merely because they don’t have a strong based of personality to decide what they like and what they don’t like, in this case we take a children as an example. It is possible to set their taste in music as we know children like to take any information available that they’ve get and build their own standard based on those information they received, so if you limit their information towards one specific kind of music they will automatically follow your standard.
I believed that shaping someones taste in music is impossible, but influencing them to enjoy some of it is a different story. Growing up my parents never shaped my taste in music but just from listening to the song that they love I ended up liking them as well. Me, my parents, my older brother, and my younger sister have different tastes in music, but because we lived in the same house there are some similarities in the taste of music. yes, we may have different genres or eras of music that we like but at the end of the day we got some genres or eras of music that are similar with one and another. The Conclusion is we can not shape someone taste in music but we sure can influenced them, and the process of influencing music doesn’t have to be intentional because if we intentionally tried to shape someones taste in music the person that we tried to influenced will feel as if they lost their freedom of liking their own preferred genre of music
ReplyDeleteAs a music lover, I have my own taste in music and I don’t think anybody can literally change my own taste in music even my own parent. First of all, I think someone’s taste of music depends so much on his/her personality. I also think that music can help to express someone’s feeling or mood. For instance, when I feel so sad about something, I cannot stop listening to sad songs. I know it will make myself even more sad but I just like to listen to it because I feel like the music helps me to express my feeling. So, I think if parents try so hard to make their children to have the same taste of music as theirs, it seems impossible. Maybe, if they try to introduce some good music which they like and we personally like listening to that song, we can have the same music, but it will return to ourselves back that it becomes our choice whether we like it or not. So, basically trying so hard to make someone has the same taste of music as ours is nearly impossible.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, parents can not influence their child’s taste in music. As the world is changing, become more advance, kids tend to use their own gadgets or smartphones to listen to music, somehow it makes the kids have their own choices to listen to what kind of song they want to hear. Parents can not control their child’s preference in music, because music is all about taste. My parents have their own preferences in music, my dad likes Rock and my mom likes Blues, Jazz, and Gospel. This doesn’t make me and my siblings listen to their songs. But for sure, I am getting used to these songs my parents listen to. I don’t think children preferences in music is completely shaped by their parents since I am not influenced by my parents. But again, it is possible in some cases, if the parents are the type of parents that is strict and rigid, they would prohibited their kids to listen Nicki Minaj or Lady Gaga for example.
ReplyDeleteEvery single person have their own taste of music they prefer, in my family we all have different kinds of music taste. My mom and dad they both like jazz, but my dad also likes to listen to Javanese music such as kroncong, campusari, langgam jawa and etc. Meanwhile my mom also listen to pop and rock besides jazz. Every morning, back when I was still living in Jakarta, my mom and dad usually plays music in the morning. They play the music that they liked, and I have to joined them and listen to it. I don’t think parents can “shape” their children’s music taste because music taste isn’t something that you can shaped for someone they need to figure out and decide their own taste of music. Maybe parents cant “shaped” their children’s music taste, but I do think they can influenced their children’s music taste. Influencing their children through having them listen to their parents song pf preference together or listening in car rides and others. But as time goes by, I do think later on children may figure out what kind of music taste they like the most as they explore more about music.
ReplyDeleteIn my own opinion shaping music for children is a very hard thing to do. In my own experience, i never get any influence of choosing one genre of music from my parents that really affect my type of genre in music. This problem is cause by probably my parents didn't really show any kind of genre in music. Music is not something that really runs in my family. Eventhough, who really affect my genre in music in my older sister. She really guide me by choosing one of the best genre in music which is indie music. I didn't really enjoy indie music at the first time but the affection that my sister showed me is really influencing. She introduce me to indie music by telling to be more not mainstream in choosing songs but to find the real true meaning of music from the media of indie music.
ReplyDeleteMusic does touch our heart and it refers to our emotion. When we involve everything with deep emotion, we are likely to remember it for a long time or even for the rest of the life. The condition of our emotion also gives different meaning of the memory. It could reflect a sad, anger, or joyful memory. That is the relation of music and memory.
ReplyDeleteSo, what is the relation between the title of this article? As I have said about the music and emotion, the answer to this article is yes. Yes, we may shape the taste of music of our children. Most people feel that their happiest time is when they were a child. Then, we are more likely to miss the happy moment when we were a child. We miss it because we love it. And we are likely to love which happened in the past especially if it contained a good value to remember.
If the parents are listening to a certain genre of music along with their children, their children will miss that time when they have grown. They will obviously love that genre because they find a good value in that music.