My understanding of the topic from leeneia's original post is how our appreciation of different styles of music, or specific pieces of music or works by specific songwriters or composers or lyricists can change over time. The music we may have dismissed as not worth listening to at certain phases of our lives may become more meaningful later in our lives, depending on the experiences we have enjoyed or endured.

As an example, having lived through an experience of what I now know was coercive control in a relationship a few decades ago I listen to the song The Spy by The Doors with "new ears" and interpret some of the lyrics in a slightly darker way than when I first heard the song. I loved their Morrison Hotel album as soon as I heard it, and still do, but I listen to the lyrics of that song differently compared to when I first heard it.

The same goes for a lot of music, in terms of its composition, melody, rhythm, and/or interpretation by different musicians or artists.

My taste in music is very broad including 40 years of playing mostly Irish, Welsh, Scottish and Celtic music with my friends in an amateur session group. I used to say I liked everything except country and western music, but there are even some C&W songs I like now. My two favourite composers are Vivaldi and Leftfield (which I refer to as an electro-percussion duo) but my list of favourite music is vast and diverse, culturally and in terms of genre.

When I studied a Marketing module at University one of the things I remember hearing was that it takes six exposures of a product for it to "worm its way' into our psyches, and I have also heard that said about music. There were a few songs I heard on the radio which I liked a lot when I first heard it and then began to think that they were not as interesting as I first thought. On the other hand, there have been songs or music that I have heard for the first time or few times and thought that I didn't like them and then they grew on me and I began to appreciate their musical genius.