This was sort of interesting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/03/favorite-music-demographics/Again, classic rock easily wins the best approval rating. As in politics, we’re looking at how many people love or like it, and then subtracting how many people dislike or hate it to get a net approval rating. Pop, R&B, blues and country also do well by this metric. Many genres do, to be honest. Americans just plain like music!
Unless it’s punk rock.
Punk’s the only musical style to pull a negative approval rating. Which, honestly, probably sounds like a badge of honor to the folks who brought you such punk classics as “Killing for Jesus,” “Armed and Stupid” and “Stealing Peoples’ Mail.”