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New study shows that people stop listening to new music at 33
http://www.avclub.com/article/new-st...usic-33-218752
I guess I will be an anomaly when I pass that barrier. 32 and discovering new music daily with no signs of slowing down. |
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It's complete nonsense and just another example of how Spotify's PR people get their clients noticed. Seriously - if a story has the word Spotify in it, move on.
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Oh blimey.........that's almost exactly right for me in one respect
I stopped listening to new pop music when I was around 33 in the mid-80s I had about 10 years 'doing' Classical which obviously tended to be very old music but it was new to me....... |
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Yep between this and the thread on SHF, I would say we can write this off politely and respectfully as complete bollocks.
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Well, I made it into my forties before I ceased searching for new music as enthusiastically as I had previously. I do still actively look for new music, but it's more new music from bands I already like, with the odd recommendation from (slightly younger) friends, like Royal Blood for example.
A couple of points stood out for me in his story: "The study also claims that parents stop listening to new music a little earlier than their unfruitful peers." I'd say this is pretty accurate from my experience. My firend who I used to got to a lot of gigs with and shares very similar musical tastes has kids and claimed he doesn't listen to new music now. Also: "listeners are returning to the music that was popular when they were coming of age — but which has since phased out of popularity.” I do this a lot, making spotify playlists of tracks I listened to when I was really getting into alternative music in my 20s and listening almost exclusively to them for long periods of time. I've found it harder and harder though to find that much new music that excites me the way it did previously. I put that down (rightly or wrongly) to considering much of what's coming out now just pale imitations of what's gone before. A kind of "heard it all before" feeling I get with lots of new music. Even the aforementioned Royal Blood, which I like, but mainly because across the various tracks on the album I'm reminded of lots ofother bands like Queens Of The Stone Age, Jack White/White Stripes, Soundgarden, etc. that I'm a fan of. I just find it hard to spot anything orignal in muc of what's out now because I've heard so much music over the years when I was quite fanatical about it. |
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It's complete nonsense and just another example of how Spotify's PR people get their clients noticed. Seriously - if a story has the word Spotify in it, move on.
You do have a point, the story can't really be extrapolated out from just the spotify users these stats are based on to make inferrences about all music listeneres, but as a fairly large subset of those listeners I think it does give an indicator of people's listening tastes that you maybe can't get from other services people may look for music on such Soundcloud. |
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"The study also claims that parents stop listening to new music a little earlier than their unfruitful peers." I'd say this is pretty accurate from my experience. My firend who I used to got to a lot of gigs with and shares very similar musical tastes has kids and claimed he doesn't listen to new music now. Oh, and I was well over 33 when I became a dad, so I was a lot older than that by the time I started going to gigs with my son! |
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http://www.avclub.com/article/new-st...usic-33-218752
I guess I will be an anomaly when I pass that barrier. 32 and discovering new music daily with no signs of slowing down. |
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It rather depends on whether that 'new' music you are discovering is expanding your taste in music or whether it is just new artists playing the same type of music.
![]() However whilst it is easy, and many on here do, to criticise young bands to producing music people have "heard before" people my age, in their 50s in my case, aren't the target audience. So whilst a particular band may have strong influences from older bands their target audience, people their own age or younger, wont have seen and probably won't have heard of the original so couldn't care less. |
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It rather depends on whether that 'new' music you are discovering is expanding your taste in music or whether it is just new artists playing the same type of music.
This year I am enjoying an exploration of more psychedelic musical styles which I would not have listened to a lot before this. |
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It doesn't seem that any 'people' have been spoken to.
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Considering I didn't like symphonic metal until last year, or didn't really enjoy jazz or classical until a few years ago, I would say I am being introduced to new styles.
This year I am enjoying an exploration of more psychedelic musical styles which I would not have listened to a lot before this. "Two factors drive this transition away from popular music. First, listeners discover less-familiar music genres that they didn’t hear on FM radio as early teens, from artists with a lower popularity rank. Second, listeners are returning to the music that was popular when they were coming of age — but which has since phased out of popularity.” So what they're really saying is that as people get older they listen to music that is not "popular" with younger, less adventurous listeners. The conclusion that older listeners don't listen to new music isn't borne out by the data they cite. |
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Well I was 33 last year and thought the charts were a joke but it didn't stop me from discovering new music. A real music lover never stops searching for new music.
I'm sure the likes of John Peel didn't stop listening to new music when he was 33 so yes, the story is a load of bollocks. ![]() Maybe it just means most people once they get to 33 stop actively looking for new music and just rely on what radio stations insist we listen to. Then they start moaning that modern music is crap...because they no longer actively search for it elsewhere. |
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Kinda right for me..... But i started listening again when i heard some good material.
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I'll be 33 at the end of next month and I still listen to new stuff at least what is on country radio anyways because I am still waiting for my most favorite singer James Otto to be played again.
God bless you and him always!!! ![]() Holly |
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Oh blimey.........that's almost exactly right for me in one respect
I stopped listening to new pop music when I was around 33 in the mid-80s I had about 10 years 'doing' Classical which obviously tended to be very old music but it was new to me....... |
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http://www.avclub.com/article/new-st...usic-33-218752
I guess I will be an anomaly when I pass that barrier. 32 and discovering new music daily with no signs of slowing down. It's a nonsense. If the result of the study suggested that over 33s suddenly get sick of "string strummin' cacophonous cowboys," "little girls with little voices, singing little songs" and "crap rap" and broaden their taste to encompass other genres of music, then I'd say that there may be some truth in it.. |
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Complete rubbish. I stopped listening to new music when I was 32.
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However a new artist playing the same type of music will still have their own interpretation and personality within that music, therefore it is still new.
![]() However whilst it is easy, and many on here do, to criticise young bands to producing music people have "heard before" people my age, in their 50s in my case, aren't the target audience. So whilst a particular band may have strong influences from older bands their target audience, people their own age or younger, wont have seen and probably won't have heard of the original so couldn't care less. You are reinterpreting the idea of new to suit your own ends. I suspect much of what you listen to is metal and rock music and these new artists you are talking about are mainly of that type. (I'm judging that because you mention bands specifically). The study doesn't say personal taste is exclusive to any genre anyway just settled. And don't tell me that everyone on here over a certain age (I'm over 50 too) is completely catholic in their tastes. |
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It's true enough for me. The amount of new music I'm exposed to has slowed right down. If listening to radio (which is now only in the car) then I'm more likely to listen to five live now.
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I'm almost 6 years into my own musical discovery journey, when I decided to start with the bands I already knew from childhood and listen to everything they ever made. Started with Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran, Robert Palmer, UB40 and other 80s artists then that became New Age and jazz, which became electronic stuff like Depeche Mode, which became psychedelic and indie, that was in late 2012 and to this day I'm very much an underground/obscure (in this country) kind of guy.
According to this study I've got 11 years left. I call bull plop, personally. But I've had the advantage of always having the internet to find music. |
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I'm 50 and still always in search of new music and new artists to discover. I couldn't just stay stuck in a time bubble forever listening only to 70's/80's/90's music, I'd be bored stiff! I love Nina Nesbitt, OneRepublic, Sia and Labrinth at the moment. I still have my old faves, some of whom continue to make great fresh new music, like Madonna, Kylie and Noel Gallagher.
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i think the problem is this..... those of us 'over 33s' who ARE still interested in new music, are here on this forum, its why we are here because we like music. those who fit this survey arent because they dont!
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i think the problem is this..... those of us 'over 33s' who ARE still interested in new music, are here on this forum, its why we are here because we like music. those who fit this survey arent because they dont!
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Rubbish. I'm well over 33 and listen to loads of new music and attend the odd gigs with the kids.
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