I am one in the class who mentioned my mother sang John Lennon to me as a baby and now he is one of my greatest influences. In no fashion did I mean that as though 'all children grow to like/respect what their parents' listened to or exposed them to'. My point was that parents can influence their child's interest in music, whether a positive or negative influence, and do in some cases I can recall.
To answer your question:
I think one can evolve and/or grow to enjoy music that at an earlier age the person did not like. That is very possible, considering the person and the person's experiences. I think to put the words 'force' and 'enjoy' in a sentence like that is missing the point:
When someone enjoys something, whether they are proud to admit it or not, it is a feeling that overcomes oneself. One can force oneself to listen to music and to say one enjoys it, but if one must force oneself to do this, then this person does not truly enjoy what has to be forced.
Analogy---
A boy who has an overall attraction toward other boys can force himself to sexually engage himself with a girl and then brag to fellow boys about the experience, as if he enjoyed it. But only he knows that himself sexually engaged with another boy is what is truely enjoyed. He may enjoy the praise of the fellow boys learning of his encounter with a girl, but that is not the enjoyment I mean here. I mean the enjoyment in the act.
So, people can force themselves to take part in something and tell others they enjoyed it, but that doesn't mean the person truly enjoyed what they took part in.
MY QUESTION: working off this question I have addressed, After forcing oneself to listen to music one truly does not enjoy, however long, can the person eventually come to enjoy the music?
Monday, February 2, 2009
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