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Honestly I don’t like the music I listened to in my teens anymore, but also rarely hear new music I really like. I’m usually listening to older stuff.
Basically the opposite for me.
IDK abt this im constantly discovering new music that I adore. Its possible theres something thats not considered here but I think this is more of a marketing gimick chart
My favorite band’s first album released when I was 10, their genre got big about 5 years prior. So yeah, this is pretty accurate.
The fuck? Fontaines DC, Tyler Childers, Janelle Monae, Leon Bridges, I have never stopped finding new music I love. This graph makes no sense. Modern music is so good. Old music is so good. I do not have a preference for any particular time period when it comes to enjoying music.
Uh it’s not an objective scale. This is the result of a survey
Yeah, i’m currently listening to my 8yo’s explicite R&B tastes and perfectly happy with it. It rages in the same say my 90’s stuff raged.
Sauce: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48812575
This study builds on decades of work that makes less and less sense every minute of the digital age. Each year we’re further from a semi-homogenous group listening to Casey Kasem’s Top 40 (or whatever). Most people have a fairly clear, shared concept of 60s/70s/80s/90s music, but ask ten people about the 10s/20s and you’ll probably get eleven different answers.
In addition to changing mass listening habits, the digital age untethers us from time and wildly diversifies “new” music. You can hop on Youtube/Spotify/etc and listen to the Glenn Miller Orchesta as easily as the newest Drake singles, which with radio/MTV/etc was historically not the case. Those platforms also have allowed a world of music diversity and access that completely changes the paradigm. For example, some of the best “80s Music” in existence was released in the past few years.
No fate but what we make. You can put in the effort to keep your mind and your ears open. Absolutely worth it IMHO.
Why should I bother when all the best music came out before I was 35?
Because some of that new music came came out before I was 35
Edit: Voyager is acting weird
Gosh, absolutely. I’ll go on a nostalgia trip now and again, but there are soooo many artists doing such fantastic things nowadays.
Absolutely! I’ve discovered some amazing modern artists, mostly via film and TV (streaming series) soundtracks, especially the latter.
yep. I’ve come across some super cool young bands that sound exactly like the albums I love from 40 years ago!
I try my best to do this, and find lots of great new music.
I still find a lot of new popular music just doesn’t do it for me, and I think it’s because as you’ve heard more music, the it’s harder to find something that sounds fresh.
When I was in the peak of that chart I was really into stuff like Spacehog, who seemed really cool to me at the time, but probably would have sounded a bit derivative to my parents. At the same time my dad loved Smashing Pumpkins enough to buy all their albums…
Certainly, of course all the old stuff is good because that is the stuff that you already curated into your personal preferences. There was a LOT of shit from pretty much any era, its just that the younger version of you already pawed through all that shit. Listening to new music means having to paw through a lot of crap, which is always harder than just listening to stuff you already like.
Plus there’s so much more music each day it all gets diluted and hard to find.
I also always felt like as we move on artists will be much smaller as far as their following, like their time of fame will be smaller and shorter. Comparing like Beethoven who is world famous for generations to like metallica who is pretty big then like Taylor swift who is also huge but I feel each window getting shorter lived as more people spread out their preferences amongst all the artists and people use algorithms instead of buying an artists CD
It also can be pretty hard to find music you will actually like. Every streaming and sales service is more interested in promoting content based on who paid them off or based on what is cheap for them to stream. It seems like there are not a lot of resources geared specifically with connecting you to music that you are likely to enjoy.
I usually troll through new albums each month and just listen to a bunch of stuff until I find something I like.
Are you john conner
Maybe. Are you a homicidal AI?
i keep discovering contemporanean artists whom I love. and I’m in the “back in my day” age.
Delilah Bon, Bob Vyllan, kneecap… give me more suggestions like them.
And I’m over here mostly listening to music from other countries and loving it.
Sometimes it really is that the music in the U.S. isn’t as good as it used to be.
It’s just that the good stuff is getting drowned out by the garbage corporations are pushing on us. There’s plenty of good music being made in the USA if you dig for it.
Time is a very good filter of what’s worthy and what’s not. You’re living now and you’re witnessing good stuff, but you’re also witnessing bullshit before it’s had the chance of being forgotten. If you look back 40-50-60 years, will you think of The Beatles, ABBA, Freddie Mercury, Jimi Hendrix, or will you think of someone who maybe released a couple of songs or an album and dropped out of existence? Yes, I thought so.
What, you mean you don’t still rock out to the Newbeats?
This may be true for casual listeners but it fails miserably for people who are “into music”.
Yeah this is almost exactly upside down for me. Most of my favorite music is from before I was born, and as I’ve gotten older I’ve only gotten more into new music.
What are your current favorites from the old and new categories?
Old stuff I’m partial to classic prog rock and jazz fusion (Yes, Chic Corea, Frank Zappa, etc.). New stuff is kinda all over the place, but the more genre bending the more likely I am to like it (black midi, KGatLW, The Comet is Coming, etc).
Thanks. I’m gonna give them a listen.
i’m not. it definitely applies to me. and i’m guessing it would for the majority of the public, too.
That could easily be extended to other interest areas;
The average person may exclusively eat local, contemporary foods (ie whatever everyone else in their community eats), while “foodies” go out of their way to find new and interesting flavors.
For many people, fashion is, “whatever looks kinda like what everyone else is wearing.” For “fashionistas”, there’s a whole language around clothing choices.
But it’s better to share some actual joyful experiences.
I recently started listening to “Angine de Poitrine”. They’re a modern band that just released a new album and still plays live concerts. According to the OP chart, they’re 15 years too new for me.
For some old stuff, check out Hillery Hahn. I keep going back to her Bach sonatas and he lived in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Then there are crazy fusion versions. I recently found Ben Comeau’s gem “Donald Trump is a Wanker”. He took the bassline of “Seven Nation Army”, gave it a choral voice, and transcribed it to a fugue format. To paraphrase an other contemporary artist; that shit is bananas.
Not just music! (Though that is probably the strongest example)
It’s telling how many people are nostalgic for a society that only existed before they were born. Recent History education sucks.
Damn we humans are bad as shit as forming our subjective opinion that doesnt get extremely distorted by nostalgia
I always go back to that line from Men in Black about the difference between a person and people.
In aggregate we really are the worst.
People often forget that nostalgia is the secret spice that makes the past great… not the actual past.
And nostalgia is nothing more than there’s shit happening in our brains at 10ish-20ish that doesn’t happen any other time. Hormones and energy and lack of responsibilty and first experience bias combine to create a dopamine cocktail we cannot recreate.
I mean, I’ll die on the hill of 90s was the best music, TV, movies, video games, and fashion. But I know that it’s not objectively true. But that’s how it feels for sure.
Other explanations could just come down to the structure of our current society.
I can see a clear and quantifiable decrease in my family support structure between childhood and now. Of course that’s mostly due death and moving away from home. But my answer would be entirely different if I lived in a multi-generational home or kinship group. Which was the default for about 99.9% of human existence.
Music, fashion, and tastes are a lot more subjective though.
I’m way too analytical to fall into that curve, and I’m sure most people on Lemmy are like that too. Like, we literally have data going back decades on most of these metrics, so why are people even going with their gut? Quite a few are literally numbers you can check!
But alas, your average nobody ignores data…
I’d be very interested to see the age distribution of the people who were polled. It just says 2000 adults, but if they were all around the same age then it may not all be matters of opinion, especially for things like “political division.”
Judging by the footnote, it’s YouGov which isn’t a very good poll typically. That said, it’s likely got enough people across ages to standardize it properly. They probably do have a larger amount in one demo vs another, but you can simply weigh them differently to balance it out.
There’s probably plenty wrong with their methodology if we dig deeper though; these polls aren’t very scientific typically. With political division, it could be how they were asked, for instance.
The one that surprises me is TV. It has objectively improved in quality so much, it’s basically on par with movies at this point. Writing, acting, costuming, all of it. I’d never claim that TV from the 90s was superior to now, even though I was a teen back then.
I will absolutely argue that TV was better between 2006-2016 than 2016-2026. I think the detailed ratings (especially on streaming) ended up feeding studio decisionmaking into shallower works that their algorithms suggested audiences would like, and that we lost something in the process. The collapse of mid budget basic cable original programming also has hurt the genre as a whole.
Also, there’s nothing quite like a high budget but mediocre show, that looks visually stunning but just doesn’t resonate with you.
Absolutely, Netflix is the worst at this. They rate their in house series based on how many people binge it in the first week or two. No slowly enjoying a show. That’s what so many of their good originals have been canceled. Apparently they weren’t addicting enough for Netflix’s tastes
I feel like it has way more to do with how knowledgeable you were at the time. Kids generally don’t have the most critical eye for any of those things and most people don’t go back to see what they missed.
I just said to a friend this morning, “every kid’s favorite movie is the last movie they saw”
It would be interesting to see that study carried out in other countries as well. In my country, for example, many older people will tell the tales from hiperinflation and how they had episodes of starvation when younger. I believe most people would agree with the best economy being post mid-90s, only varying on when, so it woud give a considerade skew to that chart.
There was a period in my life where I didnt have time to listen to new music and I thought I could get by on Metallica, maiden, misfits, and (at the time) my favorite band, Fear factory. I distinctly remember telling people, I’ll listen to this til the end of my days, I don’t need more.
Then covid happened and I was stuck at home, no longer interrupted by random work or life stuff when I picked what music I put on for hours, and it got stale (No shit). And I started to listen to so much more.
Now my wife and I go to multiple shows a week, hearing all the latest and coolest shit from our local scene (SF); we tell all of our friends: $BAND is coming in 6 months, buy your tickets now, it’ll sell out. Or: free show on Saturday, want to come?
We are on friendly terms with members from multiple local bands, we go to album release shows, we get signed merch just by being chatty/friendly, we are helping bands, promoters/venues book with each other by putting them in touch.
Honestly it’s pretty incredible. When someone says “there’s no good music these days” or “rock/metal is dead” i just ask them… “Well what are you into? I can recommend something”. Because they’re so wrong…And if thry see what I see, they’d never say that in the first place
I was a teen when Limp Bizkit was the thing for me and it’s pretty sad that no other band has that sound yet. Especially the one of the less known tracks. I’m not a hardcore metal guy, so I look for guitar work with melodies. Any recommendations?
Nu Metal in general is a very broad category that was never as saturated (from a number of bands perspective). It’s just that the bands that did break through got huge. So now there’s a bunch of nu metal bands with unique sounds that nobody ever duplicated.
Re: the Limp Bizkit bit, how do you feel about this? https://youtu.be/qI7SAPzPVQg
I have to say, I’m not very good with specific descriptors like that, moreso (sub)genres or “this band sounds like that/these band(s)”.
I agree there’s not a lot that sounds quite like Limp Bizkit, not that I’m familiar with anyway.
When you say “guitar work with melodies”, what first comes to my mind is Iron Maiden. My instinct was to go to my concert calendar and see what is coming up that might fit the bill to give you a rec, and I found “The Lord Weird Slough Feg” (sometimes just “Slough Feg” these days) is in a couple weeks. One track I remember loving by them is “Tiger! Tiger!”. Their whole vibe reminds me of a Heavy Metal 2000 (the movie).
Give that a shot, hopefully I’m not too far off the mark!
(edit: and if that tickles your fancy, check out “Burst into Flames” by Haunt; “Time to Die” by Satan)
Keep your statistics to yourself, I’m over 40 and love discovering new music.
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But is any of it better than CCR?
“No! You’re dumb and your opinions are poorly justified! You must listen to us instead!” - billionaire media
Gimme one! I’m the same way at 48!
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Why do I want to listen to the same shit I hear everywhere?! Give me new!
I’m only 31, but I really like bbno$, Sabrina Carpenter, AJR, and for non popular music and super queer, DAMAG3.
And then just a slew of random EDM whenever I’m in the mood.
Ditto. Im constantly finding new stuff. I think we all get a favorite music era for free since we start with none, but you gotta think about it and try to keep adding more. Takes approaching the new stuff with different points of view. New music often isn’t good for the situations you listen to your original favorites. Maybe you started with electronic dance. Ambient music isn’t gonna fit that goal and needs a new mentality and space to appreciate it.
I’m ‘only’ 26 and I’ve been having a blast going through Groundbreaking’s collection that they’ve released over the years. I only recently realized there was this whole archive like a year and a half ago, but I’ve actually been listening to some of the songs sold on other albums for much longer than that! I’ve been discovering artists that pique my interest and I’ll definitely look into them more once I’m all caught up.
And since I’m a huge rhythm game fan, I’ll often discover new music and artists through charts on the way. The only thing more exciting than finding a new song I really enjoy is listening to one of my favorite songs
i can confirm that. fuck that pop music. i want early electronic back
There’s been great music forever, there will continue to be great music forever.
The hard part is finding it.
