Personally, I think I’m pretty adventurous. I love music and my library has thousands of artists across dozens of genres like classic rock, new wave, Motown, smooth jazz, shoegaze, drum & bass, prog rock, hip hop, and more. Hitting ‘shuffle all’ is a recipe for absolute chaos.

I love finding new artists and connections between them (solo projects, supergroups, samples, etc), and every 5-10 years I discover a whole new genre and enjoy going down the rabbit hole. I have all-time favourites, but listening to the same thing for too long drives me crazy.

By contrast, my wife only ever really listens to 2 or 3 different artists and somehow never gets bored of listening to the same few albums on repeat for literal years.

Where do others fall on that spectrum? Do you feel the need to constantly seek out new music, or are you the kind of person who prefers settling into a groove long-term?

  • zlatiah@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I used to be quite picky & only really listened to J-core and high-energy EDM. Last few months I’ve been getting into a new rhythm game that is known for being… adventurous with its music genre, & even invented some new genres, which has done a number to my music diversity. I think I’m much, much more adventurous with music now

    Fun fact, these are genres of some of the charts I’ve played recently. They are… varied, and I think these are only within the past week:

    • A lot of trance
    • A lot of J-core. Some are “hybridized” which are J-core mashed with other genres
    • Artcore, often referred to just “rhythm game music” because they don’t exist outside
    • Hi-tech
    • All kinds of pop. Including J-pop, K-pop, C-pop(?), pop française (??), …
    • Techno & rave music, of all kinds
    • Breakcore
    • House, also of all kinds
    • Ethnic music. I think I’ve heard an Arabic EDM chart yesterday
    • Classical
    • Experimental things: “poetry” (does this genre even exist?), Buddhism chants, whatever ppl like 立秋 and 大前司 make, shitposts/memes but in music form, …
      • zlatiah@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        BMS (Be-Music Source), which is technically a file format, not a game. Started off as a Beatmania (now Beatmania IIDX) simulator in 1998, and evolved into its own thing due to some alleged copyright beef with Konami. Someone has made a 20-min video essay about this that is better than anything I could explain

        Every song in BMS is original & is fully key-sounded, so the community ended up gathering a lot of (overwhelmingly Japan and Korea-based) music creators. Some of them are… quite experimental. The entire ArtCore genre (which is almost nonexistent outside of rhythm games, but extremely prevalent within) was invented and pioneered by BMS creators. Recent ones… I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen a “Hi-Tech Full On” or a “Poetry reading” genre song outside of BMS, but there are at least several songs that fall within these two respectively

        Just a heads up… BMS as a game is brutally difficult even by rhythm game standards, which is already a very demanding video game genre to get into