It’s supposed to be a one or two word answer. Genre, Artist, Era… all appropriate categories of description. I don’t think anyone really has only one answer, but when asked it is usually a skimming over the top of preference. The answers to which may be as vague and as random as.. “Oh,  anything by Danny Elfman”, or “the first 4 Pink Floyd albums.” These examples are oddly specific definitions, but when asked, we want to give an accurate impression. I don’t want anyone thinking i listen to Rachmaninoff on the weekends, oh the shame!

I was asked by someone close what kind of music do i like. To which I first had to respond by torturing myself with this, my own question: is it an indecision or a lack of creativity to bypass discretion; musically or otherwise?

i thought it was open-mindedness, but it could also be an ambivalent dispassion, lack of commitment. Though I doubt this very much. Choosing music, what i thought was a handle people could use to identify you with, is some reflection of cognitive process. If your iPod is filled with the top 40 singles of the last 5 years, that might indicate a lack of creativity, a sort of droning trail of breadcrumbs from the car stereo to the door.  Or did you bail on anything popular out of rebellion and intentionally seek out the underground? Why? What did you find?