what kind of music do i like?

An honest answer is “all kinds,” but that's also an annoying answer because then you are stuck wondering “So is this guy a music fan or is he just undiscerning?” I think a better answer is to say something like “When I was a teenager I became obsessed with music and that’s never really changed. I liked Queens of the Stone Age and a math rock band called Hella. Now I listen to all sorts of things. I've been listening a lot to a folk musician named Hannah Frances recently.” There. That gives lots of threads to whichever son of a bitch that's trying to get to know me. But the honest answer is also interesting to me, because as a teenager, I wasn’t as omnivorous as I am now. I once had a stronger sense that there was music I didn’t like, and it was important to signal as much. It also felt important to recite genres in the way I’d learned to monastically catalogue them. “Oh, you know, avant-garde hip hop, breakcore, tuvan throat singing.” Reflecting on this, I think I was genuinely…