my wife and I went on an extensive spiral about Young Justice (tv) characters and their music opinions
SEASON ONE TEAM:
Kaldur is fucking hilarious because the music he found as a teenager is heavily Atlantean and surface music with a similar vibe to Atlantean, so a lot of new age Enya-type stuff... but his nostalgia music, the stuff he grew up with, is his dad's classic West Coast rap. He is fucking banned from the aux unless he swears off Shuffle All because otherwise you will cut from Orinoco Flow to Machine Gun Funk.
M'gann could not possibly be more obviously a Swiftie (not the kind who starts weird shit on Twitter, though, she has superheroics to do). In later seasons she starts picking up a lot of critical-darling pop too, huge Carly Rae Jepsen fan. Every few months she has, like, three days of blasting Riot Grrl.
Artemis's favorite artist is Kesha but it really takes the Kesha revival for her to admit this about herself. (One time she walked in on Wally singing along to Tik Tok full-throated and word-perfect and she had to go scream into a pillow about how much she hated that she liked everything happening there.) Other than that she's very into the Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers type sad art pop.
Also both Artemis and Jade grew up listening to Sportsmaster's dad rock, with Sportsmaster very much being the "why are you even talking about how some of these guys were creeps and assholes. this is not a nuanced separate-art-from-artist position, why do you CARE, who CARES" type. Artemis finds out that Bruce Springsteen has in fact been a real one since the 70s and it feels like the entire universe flipping her dad the double bird.
Wally listens to white boy rap. You know it to be true. This man has too much Eminem. He is less embarrassed than Artemis about liking Kesha but still kinda embarrassed about how much he likes Kesha; they kinda go on that journey together. He's not so into Artemis's artsy stuff but he picks up some of their cheerier/more fun numbers, like he likes "Bad Guy.'
Connor honestly just listens to whatever's on. Like, he likes having music but he genuinely truly does not care what it is, he just likes filling up the silence. Results in him mostly sharing M'gann's taste just because that's what he gets the most exposure to; after he and Superman are on better turns he starts picking up Pa Kent's outlaw country too.
Dick is always going to be a performer at heart; at the end of the day his priority is that he wants something you can move to. His iPod tends toward the kind of thing that has 37 genre labels stuck on it at once but one of the labels is usually R&B or neo-soul or something like that. Likes energetic or dreamy stuff; music isn't where he goes for emotional catharsis, his angst soundtrack is silence.
Zatanna likes all the bands that were doing steampunk burlesque aesthetic music videos in the early 2010s, although they do lose points with her if they take themselves too seriously. Never, ever, ever going to outgrow her love for A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.
Rocket I have to admit I do not have a great read on; we're not done with s4 so I'm hoping she gets enough screen time for me to get a better sense of her? I am however quite sure that she grabs M'gann by both hands and is like M'gann. Honey. Sweetheart. Let me give you Beyonce 101. You need to know.
Roy-later-Will Harper is the exact kind of guy who talks enormous amounts of shit about Linkin Park because at some deeply repressed level of his soul he knows that he is exactly one different turn in his life away from being really, really into Linkin Park.
This is confirmed when original Roy | Arsenal comes back and gets really, really into Linkin Park. (In fairness to him, he's having fun with it.)
