Blame your friends for your crap music

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: "Hit" Songs Unpredictable, Thanks to Peer Pressure

Thank goodness experience brings wisdom to follow your own tastes. I'll admit it, I used to listen to any song that made the top 40 when I was a kid. Then my older brother went through a heavy metal stage, so I did too. In university I hooked up with the Greatful Dead crowd. Post university was the electronic music scene. As I've grown older, the fact that there's good and bad music in all of these genres has become more and more apparant. Now I know what I like. And I know what I don't like. I don't care what anyone says, there is such thing as cool polka!!!