[BenLurkin]

Who says old people hate new music?

[GSWarrior]

I’m always discovering great new and older music I have never heard before. It’s almost a hobby. You gotta go looking for it.

[njslim]

Thats cuz all the “music” in the last 25 years sucks

Its over produced, none of the singer/bands today know how to play a musical instrument

Everything is done in a studio where individual tracks are recorded then mixed

Most of the “live concerts” are simply playbacks when the band and singers mime their way through

[Wallace T.]

The tendency for the older generation to dislike newer music dates back to the beginning of the 20th Century. "Stand Up and Sing For Your Father an Old Time Tune" was written in 1909. The theme of the 1927 movie, The Jazz Singer, was of a young man from a traditional Jewish family who abandons a career as a cantor to sing jazz music.

I am no judge of musical quality, but recognize an old trend.

[mewzilla]

I do.

[epluribus_2]

Well, a lot of it is not, actually, Music. (or Musical)

without mentioning the genres, many recordings, videos, ticktocks, etc. have way more to do with marketing sex, violence, power, control, and anger than in the past. Rather than stimulating the brain with patterns of continuous sound, the patterns are in chanted language, body language, urban styles, glitzy apparel and vehicles, and a general disregard or dismissal of traditional social values.

Much of it is designed to “Afflict the Comfortable” but without the natural courtesy of “Comfort the Afflicted”.

Some classical music and rock were designed to be disturbing (nearly all of NPR classical in some listening areas) but these do not sell out concerts and never made millions on records and cd’s.

So why the is a lot of new music, vulgar, ugly, dangerous, and sick - widespread. Maybe its the preferred backgroud sounds of too much video-games, street reality, orgasm-goal society and rejection of parents, family and religion. I imagine there are billions of dollars available for promoting these and their inevitable, eventual, political, societal, and other post-American dreams.

[PUGACHEV]

I suppose it depends on what the author means by “music”, because he certainly is not taking classical music into consideration. I go to quite a bit of classical music, and I see five times more older people than younger people at these venues. Last week, I went to a concert featuring Flemish choral music from the 16th Century, and aside from the singers and musicians, there was no one there under 50 years old, and the average age was probably 65 or so.

[BenLurkin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qap9Qm-Q894