There is a way in which everything has sped up -- due to pressure for profit and the increasingly metrical way in which life is now timed to fit with an intricate webs of devices. There is an attention economy in place that was not there before. Things are different. Read this book to really understand why.
Everything feels rushed, including music, movies, meals, etc.
Thoreau complained about this and saw it as the zeitgeist (alas). Thoreau was right.