Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older?


Hello all,

Sometimes I find myself wondering why there is so little newer music in my library. Now, before you start in with rants about "New music is terrible!", I found this rather interesting article on the topic. (SFW)

 

With the maturing of streaming as a music delivery platform, and the ease of being able to surf new artists and music, it might be time to break my old listening habits and find some newer artists.

Happy listening. 

 

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Showing 2 responses by clearthinker

One possible anaysis might go:

With the net and digital, production and distribution costs of publishing music are almost nil.  So millions (and millions) of recordings of new music are now published annually as against certainly no more than 10,000 a year 50 years ago.

Not all music is of high quality or worth publishing at all.  Most of it would not be published if publication cost what it used to.  We can't all be great composers and performers.

The fallacious conclusion is that means more music to choose from.  But the correct analysis is that you are more than 100 times less likely to find you like a piece of music you try.  Therefore it can be said that trying new music is an unrewarding experience, at least in terms of time spent.

@simonmoon 

Glad to hear you have found a way around this.  You are clearly more net savvy than I am, so you do better.

Right now I am happy where I am and I don't have the time to tweak the population of stuff that's trying to access me.  Nor to I have the technical skills.

I don't even know what 'autotune' is.

Don't forget Bob Dylan has won plenty of Grammys.  Would be a pity to cut him out ever if only his current music is 'new'.