Changing/expanding music taste... coincidence?

[Muffin]

Since starting HRT I feel my taste in music has expanded and I find that I'm not drawn to certain sounds any more. I don't know if this is just a normal part of growing as a person or if my tastes are in some way linked to hormones. It kinda makes sense in a way as it effects your emotions and feelings a lot and that is a big part of music.
I've found that I used to listen to a lot of alternative/indie and singer/songwriter/folk music and then I extended through some of the indie bands that linked to shoegaze, dream pop and post rock... which I still like a lot. Now I'm expanding into ambient/electronica styled music. I used to find it impossible to listen to now I feel like I "get it".

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[Kaelleria]

Who knows honestly? I know that my taste in music did change a bit, but I attribute that more to the fact that I"m more comfortable with my body now and more socially comfortable now... It would be really interesting to do a study on this though.

[AweSAM!]

I was told in the past by male friends that my taste in music was like that of a teenage girl... whatever that means, since that's quite a generalization. Once on HRT, I'm pretty sure my taste in music has shifted. I'm not fully sure where my taste shifted since my taste in music is so ridiculously eclectic, and continues to be so. Classic rock (generally excluding much of the 80s), electronic, alt. rock, billboard top 40 pop, etc. the list goes on and on. I used to be able to listen to harder rock, and to some degree rap, but I find it totally unbearable nowadays.

[Arch]

Shrinking music taste here. Coincidence?

[Rock_chick]

My taste in music has been so varied and eclectic for a number of years that it now borders on being deliberately obscure.

[kyril]

I won't say my taste in music is eclectic, because when people say that they usually mean they like indie artists that hardly anybody's heard of and/or other non-mainstream-Western music. Me, I just like a very strange assortment of well-known and popular music types, from boy bands to grunge to punk to metal to gay pop to R&B to hip-hop to country.

Have I noticed a change? Only in that I'm now willing to publicly admit that I like tweener girl and/or gay music, but have gotten a whole lot more embarrassed and secretive about my taste for country. My actual preferences haven't changed, just what I'm willing to admit to.

[Nero]

I seem to have lost some of my taste for rap. I'm not sure if it has anything to do with HRT or transition though. I think it's just the negativity in a lot of it just no longer appeals to me.
I've been listening to a lot of Madonna lately.

[Arch]

I still like and listen to all of the rock, folk, international, oldies, blues, and New Wave that I used to listen to. One recent development: I now like Tom Petty. I kind of wish I could communicate with an ex and tell her. She used to be a fan, and I couldn't get into it.

But my attention span is woefully shortened now. I have trouble reading. I have trouble watching an hour-long TV show. I DVR everything now, and I often watch such shows in pieces. I don't tend to watch movies all the way through in one sitting unless I'm actually in a theater. I can't grade papers for very long at a time; it's just too hard to focus.

I hope this phenomenon is more related to stress than to testosterone's changing my brain chemistry. I think it might be, because I had some of these problems before T. After T, though, it got much much worse.

I haven't listened to classical music in ages. I haven't listened to opera.

I hate these changes.

[Asfsd4214]

I love music and have a good ear for music, one thing that did concern me slightly before starting HRT is the idea that there's an outside chance that might change.

It didn't though, it's the same as its always been.