Lots of studies like this https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673843.2011.650182

show that the music we listen to during stages of development are extremely crucial in establishing our musical tastes and preferences for later in life.

This short journal discusses the importance that music has on identity: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/pom/collections/music-and-adolescence

That doesn't mean you can't love other music, it's just it seems to come in waves or when we experience change. I know my life has been marked musically by many stages in my life from college where I studied nothing but jazz for about 36 months straight, my time in the Army where I listened to metal of all kinds, and later in my life when I was heavily into EDM. All these things are still pertinent, but I do hold a special place for the music of my younger years.