5-10-15-Now

David Jolly
Age 5 - Backstreet ft. Dre. Dre "No Diggity"
Age 10 - Dirty Vegas "Days Go By"
Age 15 - Fabolous ft. Ne-Yo "Make Me Better"
Age 18 - Chris Brown ft. Busta Rhymes & Lil Wayne "Look at me Now"

Jay Patel
Age 5 - Barney VHS Tape
Age 10 - "Numb" by Linkin Park
Age 15 - "The Massacre" by 50 Cent
Age 18 - "Recovery" by Eminem

Matt Kolenda
Age 5 - "Beat It" by Michael Jackson
Age 10 - "In the End" by Linkin Park
Age 15 - "How to Save a Life" by The Fray
Age 19 - "OMG" by Usher

Ashleigh Sala
ABSENT

At age 5, the choice of music that we listened to was influenced by only one factor. That factor was our parents. In other words, we listened to whatever was popular for our parents or whatever they chose for us. We didn't seem to mind mainly because didn't care much about music at the time. We just paid attention to the rhythm, and if it had a good rhythm, we enjoyed the song. It is very clear that we had no control over what we listened to at that time.

At age 10, we were influenced by a few factors. One of the main factors was our friends in school that we spent time with most of the day. We tended to listen to whatever they loved to listen to. Another huge factor was television that influenced what kind of music we listened to. There were songs present in cartoons, commercials, and channels dedicated to music. And the radio was the final factor that influenced our choice of music. The radio had nothing but stations full of popular music that we had access to which slowly began to develop our style of music.

At age 15, we became more independent in our choice of music. We began to listen to whatever we enjoyed the most. The biggest factor that allowed us to be independent was when we learned how to drive, and got our own car. We were able to listen to any music we wanted on the radio in the car. As a result, we began to develop our own genre of music. However, we were still influenced by others in a way especially since this is the time that we were in high school. We still listened to music that was deemed as popular among our classmates in order to fit in, but our individual choice was stronger overall. In the present, our choice of music has shaped our identity. We pretty much listen to a specific genre. For example, based on our group's songs at this time, it shows that hip-hop is taking over.