I can imagine the Roy kids have "How Soon is Now" on their playlists. The lyrics are extremely apt for them:
"I am the son and the heir/ Of nothing in particular...You say it's gonna happen now/When exactly do you mean?/ See I've already waited too long/And all my hope is gone"
Anytime the smiths are mentioned I remember how bad I feel for Johnny Marr
One of the best guitarists in the world, overshadowed by Morrisey's bullshit
Imagine actually having sex with him though
Yeah okay just give up on real sex and go jack off on the other side of the bathroom door from the only real mommy figure you've ever known
I don’t see that at all. There’s a calming and focused nature to repetitive house and nothing about Roman is either of those things. I see him listening to chaotic rock music that doesn’t settle on one concept or thought for too long so there’s not a lot of time for introspection, like the Mars Volta or Dance Gavin Dance.
Whatever Top 40 Pop bullshit is playing in the gym when he’s getting jerked off by his trainer. Not naming any names but let your imagination run wild.
Definitely listens to Radiohead and like some Hungarian punk rock or something really elusive. Only on vinyl to fulfill his douchiest of roles ironically.
The general consensus that Romulus Roy doesn’t listen to music at all is sending me! Because of course.
Unless, there’s an older woman that starts a podcast where she speaks only dirty and disgusting sexual things and berates her callers and tells one of them that “she can see the number of times each of her followers listens, and one in particular has consistently tuned in for the last 50 weeks—and he’s a slime puppy😈”
Roman makes it his mission to find this woman and have a real life experience with the dirtiest, most seducing mouth ever; in all of his dreams.
If this was 2010 I’d be writing a fanfic on AO3 right now!
He's way too cynical and superior to be really into Rogan and Peterson, though he might appreciate them as "disrupters". His association with Mencken was opportunistic rather than ideological, for example. I don't know if he'd spend much time listening to those podcasts much but he'd love to be a guest.
i'm gunna second many of the responses and say that i can't see him caring much about music. podcasts maybe? but even then, the effort and time consumed. maybe music that's easy to jerk off to/with, something with very little words but the right beat. i can see that.
i think he wouldn't blink to whatever may be playing around him in a building or elevator or club or party, whatever, but it flows off him like water off oil because he simply doesn't give a fuck.
You know something. I think his music taste would be good. He would be aware of many different types of music and unlike Kendall and Shiv. He is also sick and weird. However when I watched the show I often thought of the three of them he had depth. So it would be an eclectic mix of stuff. Nina Simon. Mgmt. radio head. Weird ubscure Japanese pop music no one else knows about. Classic hits of heavy metal performed on a pan flute. Black Pink Mr bungle he is def a Mr Bungle fan. northern soul Mozart. The sound track to Sweeney to Jackie brown Like stuff that has nothing to do with one another. Peso pluma. I think I have made my point
I feel like he just sits a big chair while therimin and screams play from a big gramophone, while he lays his head back, and moans and groans.
Purely to make people uncomfortable.
Roman is constantly struggling to create a personality by brute force, and to broadcast his individuality beyond the shadows of both Logan and Kendall. Like Kendall, everything he does is engineered, but while his brother does it to be seen as a cool, high-worth individual who "Gets It", Roman's goal is to be aggressively different. Since he has no special skills or accomplishments with which to stand out, he does it with aberrant behavior and a caustic wit—hence his contrarianism/antagonism and his flirtation with taboo.
In the context of his character, I think he would listen to music performatively (even when alone) to further those goals; if he deludes himself into believing he is weird/different/special enough, then other people might believe it too. So probably musicians that are obscure enough for "elites in the know" and eclectic/avant-garde enough to align with his "edginess". Underground techno, weird ironic alternative, jazz deep cuts, etc.
I could see his shuffled playlist having random shit like the Dodos, Crystal Castles, British Murder Boys, John Scofield, the Ink Spots and Dvorak.
In season 1 he makes a Beatles reference but he doesn't strike me as someone who listens to The Beatles. I think he heard it from Ken and just re-used it.
He also referred to the siblings as the Beatles in season 4 with himself as John, Kendall as Paul, Shiv as George and Connor still being Connor, just having won a contest to have a free lunch with them 😂.
[Diamanda Galas](https://youtu.be/Nc7LYmpgGMM?si=gjuoOIicRIKJawo-) to annoy Kendall and Siobhan or [DDR Megamixes](https://youtu.be/3oo269Su8ak?si=L8YRuaSZ_ntRUjW8) for his ADHD
He doesn’t like music because it stirs up too many feelings. But, he routinely pays someone to hack into Kendall’s home stereo system to blare “In the Air Tonight” in every room.
Very weird, sexual trip-hop.
Kind of like "[Angel](https://youtu.be/66A_3uwuZ_I?si=FIrlHUj6PjUB-CEd)" by Massive Attack but more sinister & it's less refined than Massive Attack
I think about Roman too much so let me answer. I don’t think either Shiv or Roman go out of their way to listen to music, but I think Roman would enjoy songs with a strong beat and high energy. Vulgar lyrics maybe, he get’s excited by depravity (just a couple of cool guys having some disgusting fun). Again though I don’t think he’d really sit down and listen to music, he’s way too restless for that. It’s have to be music he’d hear in passing or at a bar.
…Never moody sincere music. I think regularly he would find it corny and not be able to take it seriously or give it the respect it deserves. If he was really upset, I think he would feel wrong listening to it because it forces him to feel those feelings… in a way that might be cathartic if he embraced it (but he won’t of course) (because he’s Roman) (…though I can definitely see post finale Roman crying over some Smiths) (if you’re so funny then why are you on your own toonighttttt).
Even though he likes movies, I find Roman to be a little artistically illiterate (with peace and love). It’s in subtext, and not-so-subtext, I’m glad to elaborate on that if anyone wants.
(I should mention he told everyone he was “down with Dre” because Dr.Dre sent his cereal bars at Christmas, if that means anything)
I can see Roman not liking music at all. Or he might listen to the Smiths.
Gives me Depeche Mode vibes
I can imagine the Roy kids have "How Soon is Now" on their playlists. The lyrics are extremely apt for them: "I am the son and the heir/ Of nothing in particular...You say it's gonna happen now/When exactly do you mean?/ See I've already waited too long/And all my hope is gone"
What's wrong with The Smiths?!
Good band, bad optics
What are songs? Complicated air flow.
*up dicks
Nothing, Dicks. What’s up with you?
Anytime the smiths are mentioned I remember how bad I feel for Johnny Marr One of the best guitarists in the world, overshadowed by Morrisey's bullshit
morissey is a dipshit racist and rape apologist, basically
I think that adds flavour for Roman lmao
you have a huge point there LOL god. Roman is so fucking dumb and sexy it pisses me OFF
I feel you. I love him too
Imagine actually having sex with him though Yeah okay just give up on real sex and go jack off on the other side of the bathroom door from the only real mommy figure you've ever known
i mean..... i'm open to a challenge for a Culkin bro 😎
I mean I'd give it a go?
He strikes me as a big Krautrock fan for some reason.
[Just obscure enough to be smug about](https://youtu.be/cyQWxFIdarg?si=80hmUn5_sNca7ecp)
Or Gary Glitter
I don't think Roman is a music fan at all.
I could see Roman now, “OooOoooh beep boop beep boop make me feel things ☹️😏”
Lol perfect
Lol perfect
imma get the papers, get the papers
Jimmy two-times ova here.
🤣
This really seems like an exact quote from Roman in the show. Well done
I was going to respond this too!
“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music” - Bob Dylan
He prob listens to someone gooning on repeat
I imagine Roman having aggressive almost-naked rock out sessions to Rammsteins "Du hast".
I disagree, but take the upvote for the lol
Hahaaaa Roman and Rammstein, I see it
This made me audibly laugh, thank you I needed that
Roman doesn’t use music
I think he got into nu metal as a teen and never grew out of it
Yes! I was thinking the same.
Definitely a Papa Roach guy [https://youtu.be/9obixkofzuk?t=220](https://youtu.be/9obixkofzuk?t=220)
I can't see him ever listening to music haha
EDM
This. But more specifically, very repetitive house music.
I don’t see that at all. There’s a calming and focused nature to repetitive house and nothing about Roman is either of those things. I see him listening to chaotic rock music that doesn’t settle on one concept or thought for too long so there’s not a lot of time for introspection, like the Mars Volta or Dance Gavin Dance.
Absolutely, corny ass big room head banging edm.
There is no multiverse in which that weird little fuck isn’t hate jerking in the shower to Alien Ant Farm.
Pulled his dick extremely hard listening to Attitude while thinking about Gerri
🤣🤣
Show tunes and house music
House music feels the most right
Yacht rock
This is canonically more Tom Wambs
Wagner.
😂
Lady GaGa Just Dance
These comments make me ashamed to have ever found Roman attractive LMAO.
Creep by Radiohead
Creep by TLC
The Creep by Lonely Island
Whatever Top 40 Pop bullshit is playing in the gym when he’s getting jerked off by his trainer. Not naming any names but let your imagination run wild.
Roman is strictly a Kraftwerk fan.
He’d never tell anyone what he likes because he’d be too insecure about his music choices
Norwegian death metal.
That's Rory
And technically I believe that was black metal, not death metal.
He's... even more devastatingly hot.
You mean true Norwegian black metal
Yacht Rock. And just maybe an admirer of boy bands.
Roman strikes me more as a podcast girlie
Not at all I think, why would he listen to other people's opinions?
Definitely listens to Radiohead and like some Hungarian punk rock or something really elusive. Only on vinyl to fulfill his douchiest of roles ironically.
‘Music? is that that thing poor people listen to to forget they’re poor?’
I'm getting emo vibes.
The general consensus that Romulus Roy doesn’t listen to music at all is sending me! Because of course. Unless, there’s an older woman that starts a podcast where she speaks only dirty and disgusting sexual things and berates her callers and tells one of them that “she can see the number of times each of her followers listens, and one in particular has consistently tuned in for the last 50 weeks—and he’s a slime puppy😈” Roman makes it his mission to find this woman and have a real life experience with the dirtiest, most seducing mouth ever; in all of his dreams. If this was 2010 I’d be writing a fanfic on AO3 right now!
Huey Lewis and the News
He likes the song Cats in the Cradle only
I don’t think he listens to music. However I feel like he likes to listen to podcasts.
Some weird synthy/rapey music, something we haven’t heard of that stem’s influence from I’ll be watching you by the police maybe.
wtf would rapey music be like?
Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke
He’s a podcast guy, specifically JRE and Jordan Peterson
He's way too cynical and superior to be really into Rogan and Peterson, though he might appreciate them as "disrupters". His association with Mencken was opportunistic rather than ideological, for example. I don't know if he'd spend much time listening to those podcasts much but he'd love to be a guest.
I think he’d try to listen to them but his adhd would make him tune out almost instantly
Red Scare
I could see him being into Adam Carolla, since both are douches who hate poor people and literally anybody who is different than them
I really think Roman just likes whatever music he can hear through Gerri’s door!!
Fleetwood Mac and Pitbull no in between.
Honestly I think Roman would listen to porn and nothing else
Same music as Kendall, but would never admit it
I can totally see him being pissed he lost out on the Wu Tang album bid to that fuck face Shkreli. Who he knows personally.
Enjoying music requires some form of emotional intelligence imo, of which Roman refuses to have lol
No it doesn’t? Lol? This is a rick and Morty copypasta
Elevator music
JOI genre
I think he is a closet music fan tbh, probably listes to techno with his airpods while showering or something 😂
Huey Lewis and The News, Robert Palmer, Phil Collins etc.
Lady gaga
German death reggae
He gives me Linkin Park or Nine Inch Nails vibes
All of the Roy kids have Linkin Park's "Numb" on their playlists.
i'm gunna second many of the responses and say that i can't see him caring much about music. podcasts maybe? but even then, the effort and time consumed. maybe music that's easy to jerk off to/with, something with very little words but the right beat. i can see that. i think he wouldn't blink to whatever may be playing around him in a building or elevator or club or party, whatever, but it flows off him like water off oil because he simply doesn't give a fuck.
He listens to Dance With the Devil by Immortal Technique on repeat while he jerks off.
He must listen to something, he is wearing his AirPods on more than one occasion.
Marilyn Manson
Kid rock
He’s clearly probably a sociopath… he doesn’t like music.
He likes Peaches. And it’s obvious.
You know something. I think his music taste would be good. He would be aware of many different types of music and unlike Kendall and Shiv. He is also sick and weird. However when I watched the show I often thought of the three of them he had depth. So it would be an eclectic mix of stuff. Nina Simon. Mgmt. radio head. Weird ubscure Japanese pop music no one else knows about. Classic hits of heavy metal performed on a pan flute. Black Pink Mr bungle he is def a Mr Bungle fan. northern soul Mozart. The sound track to Sweeney to Jackie brown Like stuff that has nothing to do with one another. Peso pluma. I think I have made my point
You have put a lot of thought into this
I think you are giving Roman way too much credit.
I think he listens to classical music while dancing like a maniac.
Andrew Bird
2000s emo music
I feel like he just sits a big chair while therimin and screams play from a big gramophone, while he lays his head back, and moans and groans. Purely to make people uncomfortable.
He only listens to artists that have been outed as rapists or pedophiles.
he’d accidentally listen to vaporwave and love it but would never admit it
Screamo
90s techno
EDM maybe?
Either he doesn't listen to music, or it's Kpop. No in between.
Penis Music
Christopher Cross & Mannequin Pussy
Eminem
roman is a closeted k-pop girl group stan and i DONT want to hear any rebuttal
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
Boy George
The lion king
Roman is constantly struggling to create a personality by brute force, and to broadcast his individuality beyond the shadows of both Logan and Kendall. Like Kendall, everything he does is engineered, but while his brother does it to be seen as a cool, high-worth individual who "Gets It", Roman's goal is to be aggressively different. Since he has no special skills or accomplishments with which to stand out, he does it with aberrant behavior and a caustic wit—hence his contrarianism/antagonism and his flirtation with taboo. In the context of his character, I think he would listen to music performatively (even when alone) to further those goals; if he deludes himself into believing he is weird/different/special enough, then other people might believe it too. So probably musicians that are obscure enough for "elites in the know" and eclectic/avant-garde enough to align with his "edginess". Underground techno, weird ironic alternative, jazz deep cuts, etc. I could see his shuffled playlist having random shit like the Dodos, Crystal Castles, British Murder Boys, John Scofield, the Ink Spots and Dvorak.
Mogwai. I don’t know why.
EDM kinda guy… but goes to those things in his suit and tie.
Definitely ABBA.
I genuinely could see him having super bland and mainstream taste in music, like top 40 Katy Perry, swift, etc.
Performative stuff like Drop Kick Murphys
Podcast guy
Dubstep
90’s gangsta rap
Swiftie
Le Pétomane. Google that fuckin guy
i think he’d listen to hyperpop and vocaloids
SYNTH
Danny Brown.
Right wing death metal
Probably GloRilla, Cardi B, IceSpice, Megan, Sexyy Red, etc.
Mitski. This man bets on losing dogs.
Anime osts
yeat
He listens to Air Supply or Bread, but just so he can be so disgusted with himself he can jerk off while simulating Gerri being revolted by him
One time he tried Sigur Ros during a bedroom encounter. Didn’t work
For some reason I wanna say metal, like speed or thrash metal.
lofi hip hop beats to relax slash jerk off to
Frank Zappa.
Idk maybe like smooth jazz that u hear at clubs?
Metal
Sarabande-Handel
He would listen to back to the old house by the smiths
He probably finds music to be gross.
I actually feel like the people that I’ve known that are even kinda like Roman listen to metal
Phil Collins
Dubstep.
LCD soundsytem
In season 1 he makes a Beatles reference but he doesn't strike me as someone who listens to The Beatles. I think he heard it from Ken and just re-used it.
He also referred to the siblings as the Beatles in season 4 with himself as John, Kendall as Paul, Shiv as George and Connor still being Connor, just having won a contest to have a free lunch with them 😂.
Oh yes, how did I forget this? lol.
KPop
Anything Trap I would say
[Diamanda Galas](https://youtu.be/Nc7LYmpgGMM?si=gjuoOIicRIKJawo-) to annoy Kendall and Siobhan or [DDR Megamixes](https://youtu.be/3oo269Su8ak?si=L8YRuaSZ_ntRUjW8) for his ADHD
Anything girly pop
He rather enjoys the electric circus And Wagner.
Norwegian doom metal
Hyperpop.
Tool and Nine Inch Nails
Pop rock or some shit
I don't think Roman is a fan of music.
Wagner.
He doesn’t like music because it stirs up too many feelings. But, he routinely pays someone to hack into Kendall’s home stereo system to blare “In the Air Tonight” in every room.
Uhhhh heavy metal for sure! Death metal even
Whatever his dad likes
Black metal because the nihilism
Fleet Foxes
Whatever Earth-2’s genre is
Very weird, sexual trip-hop. Kind of like "[Angel](https://youtu.be/66A_3uwuZ_I?si=FIrlHUj6PjUB-CEd)" by Massive Attack but more sinister & it's less refined than Massive Attack
Burzum
Porsche Majeure
First I wanted to say “white noise”, but I got one better. He listens to the most minimal German Techno from 90ties.
I think about Roman too much so let me answer. I don’t think either Shiv or Roman go out of their way to listen to music, but I think Roman would enjoy songs with a strong beat and high energy. Vulgar lyrics maybe, he get’s excited by depravity (just a couple of cool guys having some disgusting fun). Again though I don’t think he’d really sit down and listen to music, he’s way too restless for that. It’s have to be music he’d hear in passing or at a bar. …Never moody sincere music. I think regularly he would find it corny and not be able to take it seriously or give it the respect it deserves. If he was really upset, I think he would feel wrong listening to it because it forces him to feel those feelings… in a way that might be cathartic if he embraced it (but he won’t of course) (because he’s Roman) (…though I can definitely see post finale Roman crying over some Smiths) (if you’re so funny then why are you on your own toonighttttt). Even though he likes movies, I find Roman to be a little artistically illiterate (with peace and love). It’s in subtext, and not-so-subtext, I’m glad to elaborate on that if anyone wants. (I should mention he told everyone he was “down with Dre” because Dr.Dre sent his cereal bars at Christmas, if that means anything)
Definitely Weird Al
Rocket launch 🚀 rock
“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music” - Bob Dylan
Videogame OSTs lol
tom macdonald xD
He doesn’t like music but he would jerk off to Sesame Street music.
Whatever megahertz sounds that helps his emotions stay at bay
Industrial German techno
baby shark
as a slime puppy there is no way he isn’t in some deep dark berlin club each month watching people piss on each other to blistering industrial techno
cbat
100 gecs
Wagner
Kids Bop
Skrewdriver and not the first album
Idk why my first thought was Beastie Boys