Since I was a child, I've had an affiliation with music. Playing drums as a child, joining a band in high school and starting music lessons before my freshman year. I grew up listening to country and rock, as my parents did. I transitioned in to pop as I started to grow out of these phases, then to punk rock, and eventually to my current music taste. My music taste is a mash up of indie, pop, old-school rock, alternative and genuinely...everything but country. I have nothing against it, but I'm not one for listening to songs about tractors and beer.

I'm surrounded by a group of friends with very opinionated minds. They argue and decide which type of music is right, and I completely understand. At the end of the day, we're all still friends and we accept/respect one another's opinions. While it's all up for debate, why is music taste available to decide which is the right music taste and which is wrong? As humans, we are designed to have differing opinions in which songs sound good to us, what songs speak to us, and which songs match up with our way of thinking/memories of the past. It's debatable in the fact that music is opinionated, yes. We all like what we like, and maybe someone else doesn't find the same therapeutic experience that one album or song may bring to you. That's acceptable and understandable.

While being opinionated makes sense, it doesn't make sense to say that someones taste in music is completely up for argument. Another person (of course actually has a fundamental right) doesn't have a right to say your taste in music is wrong. I don't like country music, because it doesn't speak to me, but it may speak to someone else. If it gives you a happy, therapeutic or nostalgic effect; go for it. We're all entitled to our opinions and someone has the right to their own taste in music.

Is it debatable? Or should be accepted that everyone is different?