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The choice of music by different individual is based on different factors but majorly it is influenced by what other people around us have chosen. Listening to a particular music everyday (even though you are not the one playing the music) can make you fall in love with the song without you even knowing. For example there was a time when I was in university, I like to put my songs on repeat and increase the volume of the song to be very high and those people i lived with in my hostel started falling in love with the music I play. They fell in love with the music not because they chose to or because they have the song but they fell in love with the song because it is been played repeated around them. Same thing with me too, before I started living with my roommate I hardly know any foreign Christian song but during the time I was living with him, he plays it a lot and since then I av some foreign Christian songs I am really in love with.
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Therefore environment has its own role to play in the choice of music of an individual.
Parent choice of music is another kind of influence that can determine one's choice of a particular music. My mum while growing up with her likes playing a particular gene of music and she plays it everyday in her car when going out and most times at home too, naturally due to that I am really into that music that even till now I can write down the complete lyrics of those songs now. Children while growing especially at the age of 12 are mostly to pick interest or be high influenced in the choice of music there parents often listen too.
Another thing that influence the choice of ones music is mood. When one mood is down, everybody likes to be spirit lifted and this is mostly done with the help of music. It is of a natural thing to be influenced by mood in choosing a particular music.
Hobbies is another thing that can influence an individual in the choice of music, if an individual is someone that likes dancing then it is a norm for the person to go for dancing music and not slow or inspirational songs. For example I have a friend who likes going to club because she likes dancing and she can't really dance to slow music therefore because of her hobby which is dancing she went for music that makes her move her body in a dancing mode.