When I was a toddler the main thing I was listening to of course was what my parents used to put on the player. My dad was born in the 60s, and his favorite was The Beatles, Scorpions, Bee Gees, ABBA, Francoise Hardy, Nancy Sinatra. Or at least that's what I remember, because they were, and still are my favorite musicians until today.
In middle school, it was around 2006-2007. It was a lot of younger rock music like emo, punk, alternative, bands like Simple Plan, My Chemical Romance, Avril Lavigne, Paramore, Green Day, they were my favorites. I don't listen to them anymore nowadays, just a song a two of MCR everytime I'm feeling it, but not further than that. Oh, and also a bit of hip-hop.
In highschool, it was dubstep, I couldn't understand why, must because dubstep musicians like Zedd and Skrillex were pretty big by that time. A bit of pop as well, but mostly I couldn't remember who I was listening too, I guess I didn't listen to that much music in highschool. And yeah, also a bit of hip-hop.
As I'm finishing high school and entering college, my spectrum has gotten big big in a very short time. First it was a bit more of rock, for the first time I started looking back a bit of older bands, glam metal, classic rock, rock n' roll, it was a mess between of big faces in the 60-70s like Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Rolling Stones, you name it; and the later generations of the 80-90s like Skid Row, Guns n' Roses, Nirvana, Deep Purple. I dived a bit deeper for some metal, but only for a short time. It got so intense during a year or two, then suddenly I just got soften down, and included some pop in my music. Lana Del Rey was my favorite, still is my most listened artist though. It's been 11 years since her first album that made it to mainstream, and today I'm still her fan. Later on I started to pick up something else like 30-40s music like folk, jazz, a bit of classic pop like The Chordettes, The Ronnettes, The Platters, and some jazz artists including Armstrong, Baker, among others.
As of today, almost being 30, I find myself listening to everything. Movies soundtracks have been included in the last 5 years since I started to watch more movies and pay attention to them. Favorite original soundtracks including Amélie (2001), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Scorsese's movies in the 90s, with an exception of Taxi Driver (1976) (he knows how to choose songs for his films). Classical is something else I'd go to once in a while. And last but not least, country, and Johnny Cash, because the man made his own genre.
New music been added to my playlists lately being synth pop, 80s synth, 90s hip-hop. The whole Fallout games and TV shows has enlighten me with more classic pop/folk. But the only thing I stop listening to is heavier rock music, or dubstep, can go for synthwave, darkwave and techno (if I'm outside of course), but dubstep is just dead for me. I just feel too old for that.
I've come to a conclusion is that your music taste really develops through yourself by the time, by what you're dealing with during the moment. There was a time that I started to learn how to play the guitar, I listened to a lot of folk and stuff like that. Then I started a garage band and listened to a lot of garage/indie.
Who knows what could inspire me in the future, but my playlist is surely confusing to a lot of people, lol.