Why Do We Judge Others For Their Musical Tastes? - Arwa Rasool

Why do we feel the need to judge those with music tastes that don't match our own, when music tastes differ so much in society today?


For most of us, our music tastes probably differ from the people around us. Whether one person likes American Pop Music, or if the other likes Country Music, but there is still judgement surrounding the type of music one or another person listens to in society today.

This may strike some people as horrible or rude behavior, but it exists. Musical tastes are still used by our society today as a judgment of an entire person's character, or the entire person themselves. For example, loving the latest song by Korean pop band BTS or album is probably, more than likely, to invite insults and judgement, rather than any other type of response because, they represent a type of music that is unfamiliar to most Americans. 

First, the dismissal people for their music taste is just a bizarre behavior. So what, BTS, no one is being hurt or harmed, at least some happiness is gained because he or she can enjoy their music without being judged. Second, this dismissal is often ignorant of the creative and technical aspects of creating music, no matter what the genre. Third, people like establishing and maintaining an identity. We use music genres as major parts of our identity and people decide it's important to judge others by their music tastes. 

But, the main thing should always be whether that group or artist is bringing pleasure to certain persons life. If that pleasure isn't harming anybody, it's arrogant and rude to mock that person for enjoying it. No one in society who isn't actually an artist, are deciders of what is "real" or "proper" music and what isn't. 


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