What constitutes a ‘cool’ music taste? – The Oxford Student

“listening to the same music i used to listen to when i was 14-15 is something else i’m still her i’m nothing like her anymore she knew everything she knew nothing she was so right she was so wrong” (@espresomartini, Tumblr) As a young teenager, I remember seeing a Tumblr post which made the bold claim that the music taste you have at fourteen is the music you will like forever. I didn’t believe this at the time. Though I had just as much of the ‘it’s not a phase’ mentality as my peers, and earnestly convinced my parents that the TWICE posters on my wall would never find their way back down, it was somehow daunting that I might apparently be stuck with the same musical preferences for the rest of my life.  Alas, the garish posters were eventually rolled up and began to collect dust in the depths of a drawer, and old playlists fell out of use in the oblivion of an ever-expanding musical library.  This was the age for discovery. A time of forming identities and a sense of self-image around music. I, too, fell victim to Lana Del Rey’s Tumblr ‘sad-girl’ melancholia, SoundCloud mumble rap
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