Wolfi65

Ah yes, the clan......
No one in my family was musically inclined, can't remember anyone ever buying any albums or tapes.
My mom and my aunt would absentmindedly listen to a radio station that played a mix of Austrian folk (country....) music and 'soft hits' by crooners - European and other, such as Streisand, Sinatra, Crosby, Peter Alexander, Udo Jürgens, etc. etc. etc.
My uncle would also listen to opera, but he wasn't a huge fan who had to go to the opera all the time.
My dad's musical tastes can be described as follows: If it's not Mozart, it's crap, if it's not classical, it's double crap and if it's from England or the US, it's crap to the 10th power.

misspoptart

So I'm assuming you don't like any of those artists/genres?

MicShazam

I thought I'd chime in - not about the cultural context because I have no idea what todays youth is like - but about the original idea that people stop listening to new music at a certain age.

33 years (soon 34) may be not be much compared to some of the older/elderly :P members in here, but it's enough that my mindset has changed a lot over the years, and enough that I have seen friends and family change around me.

My sister who's a couple years older than me has retreated from mildly interesting music into complete blandness now that she's settled with a kid and a man. Nickelback, 'nuff said :P

My brother, a handful years younger than me, has seemingly lost interest in exploring and finding new music. I was shocked earlier this year when he casually told me he didn't plan to buy any music this year. He doesn't even seem to get excited when his favourite bands are putting new stuff out. It should be noted that he listens to almost everything under the sun, stylewise. It just seems like he doesn't care that much about bands he don't already know, all of a sudden. Perhaps it's no coincidence that he got settled with a girlfriend recently.

Then there's me; I'm still completely obsessed with new music and while I like far from all of it, my curiosity has not dampened with age. Maybe it will happen eventually? I don't know... but for now, the only change in my mindset over the last ten years has been that I've become even less tolerant about bland, simplistic stuff like they play on the radio.

Maybe all people become "boring" when they get older, maybe only some lose the desire to challenge themselves with newfangled sounds?

Maybe it has to do with becoming settled? I'm a loner who has nothing else to care about than my interests - that may be an important piece of this puzzle.

I don't know, but the thought of becoming one of those "back in MY day" types scares me :O

NOTE: I don't mean to suggest that guys like me who aren't settled and who obsess over their interests are losers. I live like I do because I want to and I don't feel sorry for myself. I'm not even sure I ever want to be in a relationship. Guys like me are meant to die alone!

Black Francis

I want to be hip until i need a hip replacement that's why i listened to that new Earl sweatshirt album. I try to keep up with whtvr artist is hot atm but it seems artist today don't stay popular for very long and soon are replaced with a hot new artist that will go through that same fad cycle.

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misspoptart

I want to chime in too here and say, don't you think whether or not you like or hate the music your parents listened to is a reflection of how cool/trendy/hip you believe your parents are? For example, I'm a 90s kid and my mom listened to alternative, ska, and punk music along with vanilla stuff like Seal, Sting and U2. I thought she was cool, so by default, I though her taste was good. And I still do. And I'm listening to Seal right now.

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Aux-In

My mom was never that cool. I had to suffer through her doo-wop and oldies which I could never tolerate, even as a young lad who knew nothing about music. I naturally didn't like her music, and this is without any other outside factors influencing me, such as peer pressure and so on. This is one of the reasons I'm confused when some young people say they only like old music. My dad's rock stuff and some of the stuff the both liked (Journey, Chicago, Boston, Queen and that kind of thing) was okay to listen to, but I still needed to forge ahead with defining my own taste in music.

If youth culture is getting lost, is music still going to be relevant in the future? I can't imagine it wouldn't be, but then again, recorded music is only so old, insofar as being a medium of extension for creating outlets that go beyond what humans can experience from the self.

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