Your life-preferences are formed when you're young?
Isn't the same true for choice of beer brands, sports teams, comfort food, etc.?
Rolling Stones - Its Only Rock and Roll But I Like It (1974)
https://youtu.be/fV8gjuAEbNY
Mans haircut ar age 9 or so.
The thing is, now there’s so much old music that I’ve become aware of that I wasn’t even aware of when it was made.
Most popular (as in fast selling) music is aimed at the young demographic of that particular era. The demograph of consumers 12 to 28 years old usually spends the most money on new music of that time. I try to stay open to new music that is appealing and well done. I rarely listen to music stations
that play current hits, because too many of them are Rap.
I consider 90% of Rap to be incoherent, nonsensical babbling.
But that’s just me.
I actually have stopped listening to all the popular music of my youth.
I constantly search out and find new music and genres too. I’m extremely open minded to change and enjoy all kinds of new and different things. I push myself to go outside my comfort zone so I don’t understand being so stagnated as this article states people become at such young ages. Note, I grew up with Beatles, Stones, Hendrix etc.
So another metric I am way above average in. :)
And in the ages of 14-35 their tastes are predominantly influenced by what’s “popular” which is why there is such fascination in the top-10 charts for music, movies, and tv programs. Unless you have stock in a production, the “box office take” shouldn’t matter sh!t to concepts like taste or perennial favorites.
New doesn’t equate to better. It’s just another mousetrap on the shelf.
>>But 60 per cent said they do wish they had more time to listen to new material — they’re just too busy.
Commutes, roadtrips, workouts, mowing the lawn, etc.
Nope. No time at all to listen to something “else”.
I work in the entertainment/media field and am always on the lookout for good new artists, even though I’m well beyond 30. I think the problem isn’t that older people don’t like good new music, but that it’s so hard to find it. There are tons of terrific new artists, but most of them are putting out self-produced indie albums that you have to search for. Meanwhile, the major labels and broadcast radio are serving up heaping helpings of unlistenable, cliched, over-processed crap. If that’s all you can find, it’s no wonder you’d rather just play “Abbey Road” again.
I wouldn’t mind if there was any decent modern music, but once everything became tinged with rap like sound and raunchiness, I tuned out of pop music.
Maybe because “modern” music is whiny, self-absorbed, girlie crap.
Most things I hear any more are emasculated little boys and orgasmic-sounding 12 year old little girls.
I call it Pedophile-Pop.
In terms of music, this is the smelliest pile of BS I have ever heard.
The average person is average up until and after the age of 30.
“what’s new”
there’s a whole industry (shed concerts with $45 general admission hillside seats, $150 covered seats; “classic rock radio”; programming for film soundtracks and commercials) invested in seeing their “big hit” rock properties of old returning residual money.
It can be argued that Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones were big acts that won’t be replicated.
Don’t understand the big event draw and radio presence of Foreigner today. Corporate rock of the 70s is still corporate rock of 2018.
I had decide to make a study of elevator music but it seems they have virtually eliminated that genre.
Not just no, but hell no. Enjoy this ditty or two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIXUgtNC4Kc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvMXVHVr72A
I’m in my mid-60’s and I listen to today’s music. iHeart radio or Hits 1 and The Pulse on Sirius/XM. I can’t stand that crap music from the 70’s.
I love RUSH. That is about 80% of my listening. Sad perhaps. On one of the fan blogs they will have comments by members about other bands sometimes, or Alex or Geddy will be working with a band. Then I’ll go give them a listen, and some of them are okay. Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree I listened to for a little while, but they really don’t hold my interest for too long.
Seems like all of the vocals today sound like they are run through a synthesizer so they all sound the same. Wonder how many of these “stars” would be able to perform without the electronics.
I’ll take the 50’s/60’s Rock and Roll, Motown, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, and any of the big band swing tunes.