Hmmm... When I grew up we either listened to 70's/80's music on the radio (my parents both like it)
My mom mainly likes Dutch singers (Marco Borsato) and bands (De Dijk, Blof), but I've never really shared this interest.
My dad is into bands like Rammstein, Iron Maiden and Within Temptation.
As a good young girl from the 90's in the Benelux I was a big fan of K3. Even saw them live, though my first actual concert my parents took me to was Venice. I was 9 then.
I also enjoyed Britney Spears for a few albums, there was something in her voice that got my attention.
When I was 12 I started liking a guy who was all into music like Ferry Corsten and Armin van Buuren.
Some time later I started listening Tokio Hotel. Got a girl I was friends with into it too and we even went to see them live.
On the Dutch Tokio Hotel fan-forum there was a girl with an interesting signature of a band. When I asked her which band it was she send me a videoclip along with the message: "This is the GazettE, a Japanese band". We've reached the first of september, 2007 at this point.
I started looking up more bands on youtube and via google I met Byouto. He introduced me to the Tainted-World forum.
I saw a lot of different genres coming by here, and moved along when the split came and the forum turned into Monochrome-Heaven.
But. After a while. I got so tired of the people on the forum. It became too draining. So I searched for something... different. A girl in my class introduced me to Big Bang, a kpop group.
The rest is history, I guess?
I'm slowly listening to some Japanese rock again, but being active on the forum is an idea that honestly scares me.