14 me's music was more edgy and depressed than current me's music which is a hell of a lot less edgy.
For example I listened to a lot of Parachutes from Coldplay, Sleep Party People, Portishead, Radiohead, Bjork, and so forth when I was 14.
Now my tastes are broad and varied. Quite literally from Latin-American rap to more modern Indian social commentary and interpretive dance music, to even Indonesian City-pop, although I tend to listen mostly to Hoshimachi Suisei or Ado
I bet there's some kind of correlation between people on this website, growing through their teens and twenties (and thirties and forties etc), evolving sociopolitically, learning, becoming socialists and hopefully activists -- and seeing their music taste change as well.
Versus - liberal manchildren peaking at 14 and never growing in political beliefs. Never reading theory or thinking about the world -- and living in a blanket of comfort music from that time.
I don't know, or maybe I'm just being a leftwing "ackshually" style dork on this.
My move to the left and embrace of hip hop happened at the same time in my mid 20s, so it works for me. I also fell off with a lot of hard rock because it's too misogynist (though it's not like I avoid it all that much with hip hop, so I'm not sure what the lesson is here)
That couldn't be be I say as my playlist of Woodie Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Chumbawamba begins to loop