yurayurateikokuさんの おぼえた日記 - 2022年10月27日(木)

I suppose you listen to all sorts of music, but is there a particular genre you prefer?
Oh, good question. I do listen to a lot of different genres of music. I suppose, like most people, there’s a generational aspect to what I like the most in that…I think for most of us, the music that we are exposed to, from our low teens through to our mid-20s, probably, are the styles that mean the most to us throughout our lives.
And for me…I was born in 1951, so to me, it’s the music from the early 60s, which coincides with around the time that the Beatles came on the scene. From then up until my mid-20s, which is the middle of the 1970s, right around the time I came to Japan, actually, that period for me is still the most important probably.
SO, starting with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and the Animals and the Kinks and the Who-all of those bands from the 1960s-going through to soul music, blues, jazz, or certain kinds of jazz, anyway…things that I became acquainted with more in my mid-to late teens.
And then all the music that came after that, including things like, perhaps, Bob Marley, reggae, things like that. That opened my eyes to a whole new area, area of music as well.
Because I still have several radio programs every week, I try to keep in touch with as much current music as I can. But the music I like tends to be done in a style that was current 50 years ago, rather than the kind of pop music that young people listen to these days.
And I think the major reason for that is probably rhythm. I think for all of us, the rhythms that we’re most comfortable with are the ones that were popular when we were young.
I think people of perhaps my parents’ generation, for them, swing jazz-those rhythms will probably be the thing that they’re most comfortable with. For me, it’s more kid of rock or soul. Those kinds of rhythms. For my own children, it’s hip-hop. They, they were born into a world where, already, computerized rhythms had pretty much taken over the mainstream. So, year, for me, it’s still very much…I get a little it tied or keep tied to the rhythms form that period.