In response to Avery - full post here

You can often see that attitude on youtube; people can be fairly aggressive when dealing with music tastes. Some people will look up artists that they do not like just to talk about how any person who does like that artist is a terrible person and has no taste in good music. Meanwhile, those same people are downright offended when someone posts something negative about their favourite artists.

I saw a post recently which stated that any person who does not like My Chemical Romance should burn in hell. People cannot help it if alternative rock music doesn't fall as nicely onto their ears. Some people are more prone to certain kinds of music, and exposure as a child can have a heavy influence on the person's music tastes. Interestingly, people have been researching the relationship between personality and music interests, and I suspect that there is some correlation. I don't think that people can change this, though some exposure to these categories is good because maybe there will be a song or two that one does like in that genre.