It is a mix of factors involving personality, lifestyle, genetics and learned preferences
"Poorer, less-educated people tended to like country, disco, easy listening, golden oldies, heavy metal and rap. Meanwhile, their wealthier and better-educated counterparts preferred genres such as classical, blues, jazz, opera, choral, pop, reggae, rock, world and musical theatre."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150603124545.htm
"They found that empathic people tended to like mellow, unpretentious or contemporary tunes such as Norah Jones' "Come away with me" or Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah." This kind of music included country and folk songs, which is most likely where my recent obsession with country music factors in. "
http://www.businessinsider.com/music-preference-relates-to-personality-2015-7
" Over the course of three years, Professor North asked more than 36,000 people in more than 60 countries to rate a wide range of musical styles in order of preference. Certain aspects of personality were also measured by questionnaire."
" Country and western fans are hardworking and outgoing"
http://psychcentral.com/lib/preferred-music-style-is-tied-to-personality/
" Nature's influence is lowest on appreciation of folk and country, where family upbringing appears to play a role - so a CD collection full of Hank Williams, Dolly Parton and Joni Mitchell can't necessarily be blamed on genetics:
Nature's Influence
Pop/classical/rap/hip-hop 53%
Jazz/blues/soul 46%
Rock/indie/heavy metal 40%
Country/folk 24%"
http://phys.org/news/2009-11-nature-nurture-reveals-musical-genes.html
""It seems that taste crystallizes around the music one is exposed to from around 16-24 years of age," Dr. Adrian North, who heads the School of Psychology at Curtain University in Australia and was not involved in the study, told The Huffington Post in an email. "However, our actual listening continues to evolve thereafter in two ways. First, we do listen to new music, but with a bias towards that which sounds similar to that we listened to aged 16-24. So if you grew up listening to U2 you now listen to Coldplay, for instance. Second, the actual pieces we listen to tend to become more complex as we get older.""
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/21/taste-in-music-age_n_7344322.html
BONUS INFO
" For out sample of 49 major U.S. cities, we found that the greater the percentage of radio time devoted to country music, the higher the incidence of white suicide, black suicide was unrelated to country music."
http://comp.uark.edu/~ches/CountryMusic_Suicide.pdf
FahtahSensei said: I like good traditional country, alt country and bluegrass. What i fucking hate is the pop country with pretty people from Florida or California or new Zealand doing horrible generic made up Nashville accents. That ruins country music's credibility. Those people need shooting.
Yeah I feel about the same way. What is popular is so horrible its mind numbingly painful but some traditional country and alt country is good. |