Posted on 06/18/2018 11:58:45 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
In case you needed another reason to feel far older than you actually are, a new survey by music streaming platform Deezer, via NME, suggests that by the time you hit 30, you reach something called “musical paralysis.”
That means 30-year-olds have hit the threshold when they no longer seek out new music, or are open to listening to something new and beyond their established taste....
Survey participants gave various reasons for just why they’ve checked out of the music scene, mostly citing having children and too demanding a job to keep up with what’s new.
A considerable 65 per cent said they usually only listen to artists they already know. But 60 per cent said they do wish they had more time to listen to new material — they’re just too busy.
Among the worst offenders are those music fans in Wales and Northern England, where people give up on finding new music by 24 and 23, respectively, while Scottish fans hold out the longest, hitting their threshold at 40.
(Excerpt) Read more at theprovince.com ...
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.
I was just listening to Please Please Me. The audio quality is poor, but it’s such a great performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCkQS_eHosc
>>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.
Agreed. Indie. Indie pop for even the lazy listeners. And I’m getting old.
Rock and roll is a zombie. Contemporary country is a scarier zombie.
somafm.com
If “you” pick up a collection of Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Frank Sinatra, Cole Porter, Miles Davis, Henry Mancini, Tom Waits, etc and never listened to it much before but delve into it and put it in “your” rotation, it’s “new music” to you.
Generationally some of these artists bubble up time and again, when they die, when “they turn” 100, when there is a biopic, when there is a retrospective boxed collection, when someone famous namechecks them...
“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.
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