• Vespair@lemmy.zipEnglish
    421·
    10 days ago

    I’ll never understand this. I’m 40 and I’m still actively seeking out new music and listen to vastly more new releases than anything 5+ years old.

    Of course I understand everyone has “their thing” and music happens to be my thing, so I understand the additional interest in my case, but the alternative just seems so damn boring to me…

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    351·
    10 days ago

    I listen to way more than when I was a teenager now. Probably not a genre out there now without something I appreciate in it.

    I wasn’t gonna listen to music that everyone around me said was rubbish, so I just stuck to the genres of my friend groups (first half of the 00s: so mostly indie, nu-metal and big beat/electrohouse/idm, which wasn’t exactly leaving me to starve for stuff to listen to)

    • binarytobis@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 days ago

      I didn’t listen to much music for the better part of a decade, mostly because I wasn’t driving, then it occurred to me one day that I could start streaming it during a lot of the stuff I do. Probably doubled how much music knowledge I had in two years.

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    10 days ago

    I’ve expanded my music library by quite a bit since then, but the core sounds remain largely the same.

    The innovation of lo-fi though has been pretty sick.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      16·
      10 days ago

      If you’re into lo-fi maybe check out Nujabes, Japanese legend that is sometimes dubbed as the father of the genre even though it’s decidedly different from the typical modern lo-fi style.

  • OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works
    201·
    10 days ago

    14 year old me listened to a lot of heavy metal variations along with emo rock and that kind of jazz. Now, as a 34 year old man, I still occasionally enjoy some of that, but my music taste has developed and matured, so now I mostly listen to girly pop music.

  • sprite0@sh.itjust.works
    161·
    10 days ago

    not me, that stuff takes me back to dark times. I have zero nostalgia. I stuff my face with fresh bubblegum pop instead. Sophie Hunter, Ashnikko, Hayley Kiyoko, FLETCHER, Olivia Rodriguez, Flavia that’s good shit

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      10 days ago

      100%

      Elliott smith and bright eyes? Great music but miss me with that shit. I’m done with mopey days of dwelling in sadness and misery.

      Charli xcx and jpop? Hell yeah. The world is terrible but I can at least have fun when I listen to music

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
    15·
    10 days ago

    Maybe because most people stop discovering new music because they’re occupied with other stuff like jobs or having kids. And not because this music is deeply imprinted or such.

    I’m still listening to SOME of what I like when I was a teeny, but 95% have shifted. Every decade I have a new favourite style. Went through rap, new age, opera, classical, heavy metal and currently black metal.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    151·
    10 days ago

    This is actually not true at all for me. My music tastes completely evolved and still are evolving. Sure, if I listen to some 08 pendulum I feel some nostalgia, but I also feel nostalgia for 2112 in the same way. I think music is a comfort food for a lot of people so they never stray from what they know, which is fine. But there’s so much out there to find.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      7·
      10 days ago

      I agree. Now that I’m old, my tastes are finally starting to gel, but I’m still always looking for great new musical experiences. I’ve gravitated to LOTS of great music, and even entire new genres, that became a regular part of my listening long past 14.

      I started playing the guitar again during the pandemic, after stopping for decades. Now I’ve become a good enough player, that most of the time, I’d rather just listen to my own self-played solo guitar music. That definitely wouldn’t have been on my radar in my teens.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      10 days ago

      Same here, i still have a backlog of music in my genre i have yet to fully explore, but i also do go back to old favourites for that nostalgia hit.

  • sevan@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    10 days ago

    Not even a little bit true for me. I listened to pretty much only country at 14 and I don’t listen to any country now, not even the stuff I liked then. By 16 I had switched to mostly rock & alternative. I will still listen to that occasionally, mostly for nostalgia, but it isn’t on any of my playlists. I suspect most everything on my regular playlists came out after I was 30, but it continues to shift forward over time. I suspect eventually most of my current playlist will age out too.

  • hex@programming.dev
    12·
    9 days ago

    I listen to 100x more varied/different music than I used to listen to.

    but I also listen to what I used to listen to.

  • Honytawk@feddit.nl
    121·
    10 days ago

    I wouldn’t brag about my music tastes not updating with new music.

    I couldn’t stand listening to the same 10 songs for years.

  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
    121·
    10 days ago

    I listen to almost everything except what I listened at 14. At some point I figured out my peers had terrible musical taste and I started listening to what I actually enjoy.

      • reactionality@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        I fell in the monstercat rabbit hole as a kid.

        Then branched out into melodic electronic, synthwave, drum & bass, classical electro, french techno, french rap, classical piano, Ghibli lofi, Zelda nostalgia, and a myriad other genres as an adult.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 days ago

    Not everybody is like that. I didn’t hear a lot of pop music until college, and didn’t really develop my own taste until my 20s.