How music works: we love what we love.

Has your musical taste changed much in the past few years? How about between your teenage years and now? Does our personal sense of aesthetics stop developing once our prefrontal cortexes reach peak development at age 25?

What were your favorite bands, composers, artists 20 years ago, and what are they now? Comment below!

How Music Works: We Love What We Love

Thanks to the restless and inquiring mind of Colin McEnroe, many of us have been recently thinking about the following questions: Is the rock era over? Did we perhaps overvalue a lot of the foundational music from that era? Do we now have enough distance on the rock heyday to confidently sort out the wheat from the chaff?