We’ve been conditioned to believe that music taste is based on personal preference. But it might just be a lot more complex than that. Ask any random person what kind of music they love and they’ll most likely give you one, two, or maybe three genres. We’re actually born to appreciate all music but whittle our broader tastes away as we get older. Composer, writer, and Rice University professor Anthony Brandt posits that music is like language; if you don’t expose yourself to it, you’ll lose understanding of it.
