Sing a long.

@kiobug (2250)
United States
October 23, 2007 11:57am CST
What kind of music did you grow up listening to? Who did you adopt it from? Do you still listen to the same type of music? How were you excepted growing up because of the music you listened to. I grew up listening to the same music as my dad. I was and still am a metal head. When I was a kid I would always hand out with my dad and listen to Metallica, Megadeath, Korn, Rage against the machine, etc. We were pretty hardcore. Those bands still bring back memories for me. When I was growing up I was considered a bad kid, hardcore, stoner kind because of the music I listened to and how I dressed. When I started high school I changed a little bit but what I started listening to became and still is a fad. Emo kids, scene kids, ugh. Thats what I was considered and still am considered from time to time. I still listen to whatever music I want to but I have changed the way I dress so you cant judge that part of me.
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@cikedo (3483)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I grew up listening to the whole sugary pop music of the 90's. I'm guilty of being a fan of the boy bands like the Backstreet Boys, N'sync, 98 degrees, LFO, Our Lady Peace and Hansen. Even today I will sometimes play the more popular songs on my computer. Now that I am older my musical tastes have expanded. I like rock/pop, dance remixes, a bit of new country, ethnic music and even some opera and symphony music. I don't really like jazz or the blues or even gothic music. Music I can dance around to and exercise with are my favorite.
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I think a lot of people used to like and still like those boy bands. Thanks for sharing and responding.
• India
24 Oct 07
i listen to nice melodious songs.....songs from my country by the most famous composer AR Rahman...i luv all his songs..they just stay with you where ever u go or wat ever u do...they are just really awesome....he is now composing for the next part of "Lord of the Rings"....
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Wow thats exciting. Thats great that you grew up with such a legend. Thanks for sharing and responding.
@rimsha (806)
• Pakistan
24 Oct 07
Singing is a good habit.
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Yes it is. Thanks for sharing and responding.
@zamm13 (363)
• Philippines
24 Oct 07
My dad used to listen to lots of Tom Jones music, Abba music and other oldies groupies. That is why everytime I hear the "Green Green Grass of Home", I remember my Dad. "As they lay me down on the green green grass of home" Sad song.
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Sounds like it. Thanks for sharing and responding.
@angemac23 (2003)
• Canada
24 Oct 07
I grew up listening that my mom's music, and she had a wide variety of tastes. Mostly country, but a bit of everything. And now I am the same way, I like all kinds of different music! I did go through a stage though growing up where I listened to punk, and I was received very well by the people around me when I started dressing like one!
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I like a variety of stuff too. Thanks for sharing and responding.
• China
24 Oct 07
I always being grow up with chinese traditional songs around me,and later in high school,I like Beyond which is a rock group of Hongkong. But now like locale operas.
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Wow thats quite a change in genres. Thanks for responding.
• United States
24 Oct 07
I grew up listening to music from the 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's. I grew up listening to anything and everything. I listen to whatever moves me or whatever best expresses my feelings.
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Sounds like a great variety. Thanks for responding.
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
23 Oct 07
I grew up listening to Rock n Roll. My father was a classical musician therefore he always listened to the Big Bands. As a child, I didn't have much of a choice but as I entered junior high school and high school, I was heavily listening to Elvis, Chubby Checker and others. I still listen to the "oldies" because I am an oldie now but do enjoy country as well.
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
23 Oct 07
Oldies will never go out of style. I listen to them from time to time. They are timeless.
@Qaeyious (2357)
• United States
24 Oct 07
My family would not listen to anything but country (real, 1960's country, not the rockified stuff today) When I was nine my step-father introduced me to classical and I was into that until the late 70s, after high school graduation. Then I was introduced to Yes, and it was the only group I could listen to for hours at a time. My horizons broadened during the eighties, and now I can enjoy almost anything, even rap (not the violent racist kind, though) As a child I had a problem with car sickness on long trips. Of course since my family during that time would only play country music, it was always in the background. Eventually I got over it all right, but there were times I wished they would leave the radio alone, because the symptoms would come back. So I joke now that there was a period in my life I was allergic to country music.
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Haha thats kind of funny. You grew up with some interesting types of music. Thanks for sharing and thanks for responding.
• United States
23 Oct 07
kinda the same as you, listening to what my dad listened too. we've always bonded thru our love for rock n' roll! haha. it was billy squier, rush, reo speedwagon, ac/dc, def leppard, metallica, chicago, doobie brothers, alice cooper, pink floyd, the beatles, just old school fun. mom tried to get me to listen to barry manilow and neil diamond, but i always went with dad on things, haha! and that was at like 5, i chose billy squier over neil diamond at a very young age! haha! daddy's lil girl i suppose! i still love that music, but love linkin park, afi, breaking benjamin, and 3 days grace...but a lot of today's music is so blah to me, no guitar riffs like they used to play back in the day, so it's great to hear some ac/dc now and then!! i never dressed any of the parts and such, i mean i had my metallica shirts, and def leppard, and scorpions shirts, haha, but i also had a vanilla ice shirt (UGH) and a new kids on the block shirt, cuz my jr high years were more about the "cute boys" i suppose, BUT my dad always supoorted whatever i liked and bought me whatever i was into...haha, even my keith sweat and ll cool j period!! but i always kinda go back to the hair bands, rock ballads, old school type of stuff. i'm actually a lot more open to music though, i like a lot of old 40's swing and some old r&b, and there are a few (limited) country songs i can stand. i love piano music, so i like most i suppose.
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
23 Oct 07
Sounds like a party. Its great that your dad was so supportive. : ) I think listening to a lit bit of everything is a good thing. Thanks for responding.
• China
24 Oct 07
I like pop music.when i listen to these style of music,felling is very excited.and the pop music maker are very pop. i love them!!1
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Pop music can be very fun to listen too. Thanks for responding.
@karixie (121)
• Philippines
23 Oct 07
I grew up with listening and singing to the late 80s to 90s Disney Cartoons soundtracks. My favorites would be soundtracks from The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King. Sometimes, whenever me and my sibs would go out for karaoke, we would still sing those songs even if all of us weren't born yet by the time Little Mermaid was released (was it 1984?)
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
23 Oct 07
I think it was 1989. They are all great songs and I think a lot of people have a love for them. Thanks for responding.
• Philippines
24 Oct 07
hi! in my experience ever since im still a kid my father always plays soft music in our home.he really loves to hear music when i grow up i used also to hear soft music not a rock one.
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Sounds relaxing. Thanks for responding.
• China
24 Oct 07
yes , the kind of music which you listening take a very part of liveway . when i was as a child ,my mother oen teach me the music of revolution ,so now ,my life is very happy
@kiobug (2250)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Thats great. Im happy for you. Thanks for responding.