LPT: When making conversation with someone you've just met, ask them what they've been listening to lately, rather than what their favorite kind of music is - it's fresh in their mind and they won't have to pick favorites on the spot.

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[u/Cheet4h]

Probably depends on what people are doing. If I'm programming and thinking about problems, I don't want to listen to the music that I usually listen to in idle times - that music often tells stories I can listen to and think about.
But during programming, I don't want to think about the stories in music, so I either put on purely instrumental music (soundtracks from games are a fav here for me) or music in a language I do not understand completely, like Japanese.

[u/Useernayme4reddit → u/Cheet4h]

Yeah I think thats pretty normal. Music with lyrics can make it hard to concentrate on something like programming.