I think that it really depends on your relationship with music. I’m no longer in my 30s and still find new music all the time.
I wonder why parents consistently listening to older music than their childless peers
I wonder why parents consistently listening to older music than their childless peers
Only in the last few months, with the youngest being almost 5, do I feel the urge to listen to the music again - and I have a 10 year gap to catch up with.
> I wonder why parents consistently listening to older music than their childless peers
I know my kid can't stop dancing when John Ryan's Polka (Bluey episode Fairies) is on! :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/bluey/comments/ph5sot/whats_your_fa...
It's weird that a kid's show can make the entire crave Rossini, but so is life, just roll with it! :)
It's a little sad too because the internet unlocked so much "bedroom producer" potential from the entire world where before you had to be musically trained or get a lot more lucky. There's actually a talent explosion right now.
Both here and in the article there's a conflation of "new music" with "contemporary mainstream popular" which seems invalid. Is the Billboard Hot 100 any more or less innovative in 2024 than it was in 2004, or 1974? I think that most "mainstream" music is precisely "a slight riff on stuff [written] a long time ago." You have to go outside of the mainstream to find music and artists that are experimenting with novel sounds, just like you did in decades past.
As you say, there's been an explosion of independent creativity, thanks to the Internet. There's no reason for anyone who is interested in music to listen to the same old mainstream dreck.
Yes, amazingly less so. Less innovative and less diverse music styles.
My brother and I, less than two years apart in age, when we were 18 years old listened to the same music, power metal, mostly. By now, some three decades later he have veered off in a direction of high BPM while I am deep in folk metal land sometimes leaving metal behind. Where does folk metal end and where does (neo)folk rock start? I do not know and I couldn't care less if I tried. I simply enjoy https://youtu.be/mQWmryiIcxY a lot without trying to label it.