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Posted on 12/02/2021 7:26:02 AM PST by dmam2011
As I’ve grown older, I’ll often hear people my age say things like “they just don’t make good music like they used to.”
Why does this happen?
Luckily, my background as a psychologist has given me some insights into this puzzle.
We know that musical tastes begin to crystallize as early as age 13 or 14. By the time we’re in our early 20s, these tastes get locked into place pretty firmly.
In fact, studies have found that by the time we turn 33, most of us have stopped listening to new music. Meanwhile, popular songs released when you’re in your early teens are likely to remain quite popular among your age group for the rest of your life.
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This article is nonsense.
While I still like the Stones, Beatles and Black Sabbath, I also listen to great symphonies, opera and Charles Mingus.
And so many others.
What I cannot stand is the ghetto “music” popular today.
It’s interesting that there are a lot of “reaction” channels on youtube, mostly young people listening to bands like Yes and Genesis. Many of them are black. One of the funniest ones I saw was a young black kid listening to and watching the video of Rush playing “Xanadu” from their 1981 tour. Halfway through he rips off his headphones and runs out of the room, because his brain exploded from the awesomeness he was witnessing.
Few younger people don’t even know what classical or easy listening music is until the ripen.
Classic rock is ok some times just not many new tunes like them each to their own.
I would say “pop” music. The autotuned hip hop crap is talentless garbage. Always was always will be. There is a lot of good new acoustic music.
I like WAP by Cardi B!
Because they have lived through excellent music and recognize that some music is better than others. For instance, Rap? Seriously? It’s like comparing Kwanza with Christmas.
What I don't like is ‘music’ that involves no talented musician playing an instrument or singing without autotune.
At least you can find x and y on that graph...
It isn’t that “new music” is crap, but the radio playlists are often pretty bad.
I haven’t listened to radio music in years for various reasons, but thanks to you tube, Pandora, and the like I find a constant stream of music new and old that I do like. It’s out there. It just doesn’t get radio play. My car radio doesn’t work, and I don’t bother to fix it. At home it’s Pandora and on the road it’s my mp3 on my iPad. I’m always buying music, one song at a time.
Not sure if this is true. The music I hated as a teen I still hate, but music similar to what I liked then I like.
I’d describe most of it as “too noisy”. I’m 77.
Actually it’s quite true. Most folks don’t acquire any more music after they’re 35th birthday. People lock in. If you’re hanging out in a crowd that explores you won’t see that. But that’s your crowd vs the general population.
I do.
Psychologists are the most mentally unhealthy of any group and often invent things out of thin air to stroke their oversize egos.
Check anything a psychologist says and you find it is usually pure invention.
Yup. I've got music I listen to on a regular basis from pretty much all decades, starting with the 1880s. Not too much from the past two decades, although there are some songs/artists that I like.
But it's all old.
But not opera.
Never acquired that.
Except for this one.
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