Spotify makes it so easy to find new bands. I'm 33 and I find new music at least every couple of months.
Study says average person stops seeking out new music by age 28
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In my early 20's i use to listen to my favorite new bands and spend a lot of time online looking for other bands that sounded similar.
This is pretty accurate to my life. I spent most of my 20s collecting records and going to shows all over the country, but now I don't even know where to find new bands. I'm pathetic.
I'd rather die than stop looking for new music. There's no feeling like the thrill of enjoying a new beat that really captures you for the first time.
I have some friends who seem like they stopped looking for new music back when they were 15 or something. They're really boring people.
I have some friends who seem like they stopped looking for new music back when they were 15 or something. They're really boring people.
35 years old. I follow a few music reviewers on YouTube and will typically save albums if the description sounds like something I would like. Also over the past few years I've gotten into entire genres like black metal, city pop, and whatever genre you'd classify low-fi hip hop as.
Yeah....I legit just turned 28 yesterday. I love finding news songs in many many genres. Just think about....there's a song out there that's playing RIGHT NOW. You've never heard it or of its' artist. So, you'll have to randomly stumble upon it. Maybe...
Anyways, thank God for Shazam.
Hey! Wassup fellow leo
Anyways, thank God for Shazam.
Hey! Wassup fellow leo
I don't think I ever really did. I listened to rock radio stations then when streaming started happening that was about it for radio. That being said streaming has lead me to many new bands I had never heard of before becoming favorites.
I'm 30 and I'm listening to more new music now than I ever have in my entire life.
Streaming and bandcamp is awesome, man.
Streaming and bandcamp is awesome, man.
That's how it's gone for many of my friends, but 28 was when my tastes finally started to expand, and yeah, it was pretty much around the time I dove into Spotify. The music I listened to had become pretty static up to that point, but over the last few years I've been listening to entirely new genres for the first time since high school.
(It's going to be fascinating to look back after a few more decades and see how the internet has affected the concept of generational divides when it comes to media.)
(It's going to be fascinating to look back after a few more decades and see how the internet has affected the concept of generational divides when it comes to media.)
Black metal and death metal ftw :)
Got any favorite bands? I gotta say, i love Gorgoroth and Satyricon
Not true for me. It's more like I listened to the same stuff over and over again until I hit age 30. I listen to a wider range of stuff now than ever before.
I would say this applies to me but I just only discovered City Pop like 6 months ago. Been face deep in that ass since.
I lasted a little longer than that. I recognize now that in finally a bit bored with my classics, though and let Spotify help make selections to get my musical foot out of the grave.
I'm not 28 just yet, but I know this will never be true for me.
I'm very picky on what sounds "good". I can only listen to a good song for so many times before I get tired of it. Listen to it too many times and it starts to actively annoy me.
That's why I hate getting asked what my favorite song of all time is. It's like well I like this song at the moment, but I know it'll change once I find something better.
I'm very picky on what sounds "good". I can only listen to a good song for so many times before I get tired of it. Listen to it too many times and it starts to actively annoy me.
That's why I hate getting asked what my favorite song of all time is. It's like well I like this song at the moment, but I know it'll change once I find something better.
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Not true for me. I've been seeking new music lately. I get tired of the same stuff after a while. When I was young, I think I was more particular and wanted only a specific thing. But since my tastes have broadened.
It might be because I listen to music a lot while working. I like finding new things to add to my playlist.
It might be because I listen to music a lot while working. I like finding new things to add to my playlist.
interesting. I was just thinking about this the other day in my car while listening to muse (absolution and prior, of course.) With youtube and spotify, I have access to hundreds of thousands of albums and songs. I just have to click and I can listen. There has never been an era in history where this was a possibility. But I don't click the new stuff. I listen to the same old shit. 35 btw.
38 and listen to new music all the time. See also new shows, news games, new books, new places, new food. Same thing. Why stop being interested? Seems a bit like a kind and of resignation that things are as good as they'll ever be. Which, I don't know really, feels more defeatist than contentment to me.
Each to their own though really, I'm not one to judge.
Each to their own though really, I'm not one to judge.
I mean, I guess I don't actively seek them out but I would always welcome new songs as long as I like them.
Mostly from Anime theme songs or whatever just happens to be on the radio at the moment that caught my attention.
Mostly from Anime theme songs or whatever just happens to be on the radio at the moment that caught my attention.
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Pretty sure seeking out is central to the article. It's not arguing people over 28 will refuse to enjoy new music lol.
I used to hear new music by working at a record store. Then I quit that, an mostly listened to videogame music or chiptune, or playlists for a few genres, like music from the 30s and 40s, jungle/tribal kind of stuff, jazz instrumental, and others. I don't know the songs, I just like the music. I strongly prefer listening to a bunch of good music I've never heard than the same popular songs over and over like I used to when I was listening to mainstream stuff.
Then I got into bandcamp and discovered synth wave. It was one of those moments where I couldn't believe how much I loved what I was hearing. The new music I listen to now is mostly synth stuff, and retro vibe vapor kind of thing. All I know is I can not go back to mainstream music. I just hate it.
I don't actively seek, but I stumble across new stuff thanks to resetera and bandcamp and that's good enough for me for now.
Then I got into bandcamp and discovered synth wave. It was one of those moments where I couldn't believe how much I loved what I was hearing. The new music I listen to now is mostly synth stuff, and retro vibe vapor kind of thing. All I know is I can not go back to mainstream music. I just hate it.
I don't actively seek, but I stumble across new stuff thanks to resetera and bandcamp and that's good enough for me for now.
I actually really liked the times where lable people would scout new talent, take them under contract and then push them as the new hotness. Most of the bands in the genre I listen to did get a gig at a label because they had something going for them.
it's kind of hard to filter all the music available, now that bands can self publish there is no label to act as a filter anymore. I need to spend much more time to find something I like and rarely is it something I truly love. But I try to find new stuff even with 32, helps that I bought expensive listening equipment so I need to justify these purchases by listening a lot to music.
Edit: I'm also the kind of person that listens to a record for weeks or months. When I like something I like something.
it's kind of hard to filter all the music available, now that bands can self publish there is no label to act as a filter anymore. I need to spend much more time to find something I like and rarely is it something I truly love. But I try to find new stuff even with 32, helps that I bought expensive listening equipment so I need to justify these purchases by listening a lot to music.
Edit: I'm also the kind of person that listens to a record for weeks or months. When I like something I like something.
27 and while ive slowed down on discovering new music its mostly because podcasts have eaten up a bigger chunk of my listening time and not because ive actively stopped looking.
Sounds right, but Spotify has changed this for me with the weekly picks. Fucking love it. Always something new.
Man I feel like 28 is when I really started to branch out lol. Spotify has been a great tool for that. Listening to tons of genres and artists that I never would have explored without it. Used to be all classic rock and metal all the time, and now I listen to classical and jazz more than anything, but still trying to listen to new stuff every week.
Does it count as 'seeking out' though? I'm under the impression they mean actively searching.
Been listening to my ska bands for a while now. But I wouldn't mind finding some new stuff to rotate.
Sounds about right. My music tastes EXPLODED around 18 through my early 20's. I was voracious in my consumption of new forms and styles of music for YEARS. The last radically different genre I really got into was around the age of 24 and maybe 2 or 3 years after that is when I stopped specifically seeking out new artists pretty much across the board. Of course I've still discovered new artists and new albums since then, but they've all been in musical genres I was already interested in (which is easy, admittedly, as I have pretty eclectic taste). And it's largely been stuff I hear in games/movies/etc as opposed to, say, reading album reviews on Pitchfork or doing Google searches in the style of, "bands that sound like.."
I really don't see the point of things like this. Who gives a shit about the average age for this or that. Just forget about others expect you to behave and live how you want.
I've definitely sought out new genres in ages past 28. Most of what I'm listening to these days wasn't even in my rotation before the age of 30.
But to be fair, I wonder if the new genres I love are in actuality hooking into the same grooves as the stuff I loved in earlier life.
But to be fair, I wonder if the new genres I love are in actuality hooking into the same grooves as the stuff I loved in earlier life.