IELTS Speaking for Success - 🎹 Music (Part 3) + Transcript

Episode Date: October 12, 2025

Get our premium episode archive: https://www.patreon.com/ieltssfs What kind of music do young people like? What kind of music is popular in your country? Do you think the government should invest more money in concerts? Do you know what kind of music children like today? What are the benefits of children learning a musical instrument? What are the differences between young people’s and old people’s preferences in music? Tune in and have a great day! - Book a class with Rory here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://successwithielts.com/rory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2025 Podcourses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, lovely, and welcome into speaking part three. We're talking about music in general, a common mild topic speaking in essay. If you're far away from music, I recommend reading some articles about music, like music which is popular in your country and why people listen to music and blah, blah, blah, just to be in the know. Very in depth. And blah, blah, blah. Yeah, and blah, blah, blah.

and all that jazz. Rory, why we should believe your opinion, why are you the authority on music? On music, I'm not. Rory, you should say you are and you know stuff. Rory, you're an educated native speaker. It's all about how well you handle the conversation. Let's talk about music.

Oh my God, we talked about music when I had my IEL's test. I just remembered. What score did you get? I got a band nine. There we go. Are you happy now? What kind of music do young people like? Oh God, I've no idea these days.

Based on my experience, I think it's probably something loud, fast, probably subversive, since those are things that young people seem to like in general. Of course, they could like other things, but I suspect that those things are the mainstay. What kind of music is popular in your country? I don't really check the charts, to be honest, but I suppose the same things that are popular in Western countries. So pop music, variations of rock and hip-hop or R&B, that's what I tend to hear being played all the time at least. Do you think the government should invest more money in concert? I think that the government has bigger fish to fry, to be honest. It's, of course, important to support

cultural institutions, but it's hard to see a concert if the infrastructure of the country is falling part, which is very much the case here. So they would be better off focusing on those things instead of concerts. What are the benefits of children learning a musical instrument? Well, it's probably good for their manual dexterity, as well as giving them an ability to read music and follow a conductor, or a beat at least. I suppose it could also give them an alternative income stream in the long run. What are the differences between young people's and all people's preferences in music. I imagine it'll be very of the era when they were young.

By that, I mean, old people will probably prefer the music they grew up with, since it's what they're used to and what resonates with them and their lives. The same will likely be true for young people. I certainly hope that's true because it means there will be old people listening to things like death metal when they are older, which sounds extremely entertaining to me. Coming to theaters December 12th. Your father's here. Why?

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I have no idea. I've no idea. based on my own experience, considering my own experience, I think it's probably something loud, fast, pop music, subversive. So young people like something subversive is like what kind of music is subversive? Well, anything that transgresses social norms, I think is probably the best way to look at it. Subversive means trying to destroy or damage something. ideas like destroying ideas, subversive influences.

Are you a subversive influence? Very much. Just I change people for the better. Even if they don't want to, they just change for the better. They start shining because I give, you know, joy, love and a lot of goodness. And you're very modest. Yeah, do you listen. Also, you know, like to you, when you listen to my voice, it's just, you know, like a pure goodness and happiness.

Do you feel it? Yes, good. Good energy, dearest, good vibes into your ears. Yam, yum, yum. Roy, what's a mainstay? A mainstay is just something that is quite common or people usually have in a specific situation. So the verse of music would be a mainstay of most young people's playlists, I would imagine. And de Lisztain, if we Google what music young people like, Google says that's pop, hip-hop, rap. But seriously, that's just... you know, depends where. Some young people enjoy rock, country music, you know.

Electronic music is quite popular, you know. In Quora, for example, they have a question like, what kind of music do young people listen to nowadays? One of the answers. As a 14-year-old teenager, I feel as I'm quite qualified to answer this question. So... What a mature 14-year-old. I personally listen to an unhealthy amount of panic.

Panic is a band-old. Oh, Panic at the disco, I think is what they mean. I also listen to a very unhealthy amount of metal, goth, metal core. So that's like subversy music. But also rock, pop punk, like imagine dragons. So my favorite genres, pop punk, alternative rock, metal, rock, rock, indie. like very different genres. Interesting. So I think this answer is pretty much a very good answer. It got almost 200,000 likes. So we believe it.

Thank you random 14 year old on the internet. Thank you, thank you so much. So just let's steal these genres. If you don't know what music is popular in your country, you can say, I don't really check the charts. So we have musical charts. So I don't really check the charts, to be honest. But I guess that classical music, pop music, rock, hip-hop, R&B are quite popular. And these are the genres that tend to be played all the time. So people play such music all the time. The government has bigger fish to fry. Yes, they have more important things to worry about.

I think the government has more important things to worry about. So have bigger or have other fish to fry. have something more important to do. I've got bigger fish to fry. So we don't have an article because I want to use an article here to have a bigger fish to fry. Well, it could be

but that would be like a very specific thing they need to do. So it would be like they've got a bigger to fry and then the economy is a disaster, for example. I think that might be a bit better. But it's probably better just to say bigger fish to fry in general because it's not just the economy that's a problem.

It's a lot of other things. You can say that the government should support cultural institutions. So where music is important, right, but not necessarily concerts. And the other question is about children. So children, what music do children like? Oh, la la. Well, la, indeed. Don't have children, do I have no idea?

But children is like kids, you know, like five-year-olds. 10-year-olds. Yeah, you can also say, I have no idea. They've always liked. Children have always liked, present perfect. Things like nursery rhymes. Rory, could you just sing a very simple nursery rhyme so our listener understands what it means? Oh my god, like little bull peep lost her sheep. There we go. For example, how does it go? That's it. There's other parts of it. It's a longer nursery rhyme. Humpty dumpty sat on a wall. Hump-ty-dumpty. Dutti-Dumpty had the great fall. All the kings' horses and all the king's men couldn't put it together again.

Yeah, so it's a nursery rhyme, a famous nursery line, right? You can say like children have always enjoyed nursery rhymes and other stuff along those lines. And other stuff like this. I've googled what children enjoy and they enjoy songs, okay, Disney songs from cartoons. So, children usually watch cartoons, so they enjoy Disney songs from film, cartoons, pop music, classical music with stories. Yes, because children learn from stories, they listen to stories. And just children's, what do you call like children's songs? Just children's songs?

Children's songs, yeah, I don't think there's a word for it. Or if there is, I don't know what it is. A musical instrument, Dillit now. Learn a musical. instrument or learn to play a musical instrument like play the piano, play the drums, play the violin, and it's good for manual dexterity. So when you learn to play a musical instrument, it improves your manual dexterity, which means ability to use the hands to perform a difficult action skillfully, manual dexterity. So whatever instrument it is, it does improve your hands,

Brain coordination or what do you call it? Your hand-eye coordination. Manual dexterity is being able to move your fingers around with ease or how easy it is for you to do that. Children also learn how to read music, so how to read notes, follow a conductor. Conductor is a person who controls an orchestra, and follow a beat, like a beat.

Young people prefer. certain genres, while old people might prefer different genres. But again, it's not a rule, right? Older people will probably prefer music they grew up with as children, right? Or maybe like a classical music, music which is more difficult to comprehend, to understand. And music that resonates with them and their lives. They have a connection to it. If an experience or memory resonates, It makes you feel an emotional connection. Like, oh, her experience resonate with me. I feel a connection.

Or it doesn't resonate with me. The same might be true for young people, but there will be old people listening to death metal. I think, I really hope that's true. This music is just, oh, la la, do you listen? Do you enjoy death metal? Oh, it's just so intense. I think you're going to say it's just so deadly.

Ready listener, thank you very much for listening, thank you for being with us, you're amazing, keep it up, okay, sending joy, love and hollocks, okay? Bye! What kind of music do young people like? Oh God, I've no idea these days. Based on my experience, I think it's probably something loud, fast, probably subversive, since those are things that young people seem to like in general. Of course, they could like other things, but I suspect that those things are the mainstay.

What kind of music is popular in your country? I don't really check the charts, to be honest, but I suppose the same things that are popular in other Western countries. So pop music, variations of rock and hip-hop or R&B, that's what I tend to hear being played all the time, at least. Do you think the government should invest more money in concert? I think that the government has bigger fish to fry, to be honest. It's, of course, important to support cultural institutions, but it's hard to see a concert if the infrastructure of the country is falling apart, which is very much the case here.

So they would be better off focusing on those things instead of concerts. What are the benefits of children learning a musical instrument? Well, it's probably good for their manual dexterity, as well as giving them an ability to read music and follow a conductor, or a beat, at least. I suppose it could also give them an alternative income stream in the long run. What are the differences between young people's and all people's preferences in music? I imagine it'll be very of the era when they were young.

By that, I mean, old people will probably prefer the music they grew up with, since it's what they're used to and what resonates with them and their lives. The same will likely be true for young people. I certainly hope that's true because it means there will be old people listening to things like death metal when they are older which sounds extremely entertaining to me.