Aaron1

Not sure, I'm 22 and I'm pretty set in my ways with music. However I'm not totally close-minded to fresh ideas. Wandering around Glastonbury listening to weird and wonderful things changes you!

Trollheart

It's completely subjective, and I think it depends on whether you're talking about someone who is a music enthusiast, like most/all of us, or someone who just listens to "what's on the radio", or what they may have collected in terms of music over the years, and doesn't really get too involved in what's new or different, as they aren't really interested in that.

If you're in the former category, chances are you'll continue to enjoy, explore and discover music up to any age really: I plan to be seventy and still be very interested in music (though I WILL shake my stick at kids as they hover-skate by and make a virtual fist at them, shouting "Get off my damn hyper-lawn, you damn kids!") and still open to new experiences. Hell, I've only twenty years to go, and I don't feel in any way bored or locked-in to the music I've listened to over my life.

Ultimately, there's no one study that can say definitively what age, if any, people will lose their interest in exploring music. Everyone's different (I'm not) and everyone will have their own idea as to how they want to approach music. Some will think it's nothing more than a diversion occasionally, some will be happy to listen to whatever happens to be on, some will obsess over it and want to keep developing it. Some will just enjoy it.

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Scarlett O'Hara

What the heck would a 22 year-old know about music tastes changing with age?

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Aaron1

Well I do apologise, are only the older generation allowed an opinion? My music taste has changed drastically around 3 times since I started listening to music properly about 8 years ago..

RTSullivan

This is a good thread topic. I'm 23 and already find myself not having to time to listen to new music, and when I do I'm never impressed by what I find. I think LoathsomePete's point about routine is probably fairly accurate, although I am one for breaking routine, so you never know in a couple of years I might be jumping up and down like a twat to dance muisc not likely

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Paedantic Basterd

I'm 23, and I can say that my interests have progressively broadened since my youth. I won't say I know where they're going, but the point is that my tastes were less pliable as a teenager than they are now.

You've got two years up on me, if I remember correctly. Would you say you're more, or less flexible than you were at 23?

jackhammer

I feel the exactly the same and at 40 I am more open minded than ever. Of course I am nostalgic and a lot of what I listened to as a kid still holds up really well and some doesn't but paradoxically this makes me very very selective regarding what I like because I have been listening to music intensively since the age of 14 and some music that may be viewed as original or genre bending by new listeners may not be to me as I have that much more listening experience. It's not elitism or arrogance at all, it's just my own musical evolution and when some of you reach the age of us oldies on here and are still listening and exploring music you will probably be posting the same sort of reply. I am really proud of the fact that I am open minded and finding music that still excites me and that will never change.

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Urban Hat€monger ?

My tastes don't get less flexible with age, if anything it's the opposite.

These days I care more about the music that's come out over the past 60 odd years rather than what's coming out this month.

If it's any good it'll still be around in a few years.

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KW710

My taste was pretty much fixed in place during High School. Not that there's no flexibility, but in general, I like a certain style of music that I established pretty early on. At this juncture though, I'm still pretty young, so who knows? Maybe in 10 years, my taste will be completely different.

Scarlett O'Hara

I am far more flexible. The reason I don't think a person our age would know is because maturity and life experience is way different from 30 years plus.

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