# Do you keep up with current music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957 "2010-03-02T03:45:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/1 "2010-03-02T03:45:31Z")
It seems the older people get, the less likely they are to keep up with current music. I’m 36 and I do a fairly good job keeping up with rock, and plan to for a long time. I listen to other genres, but don’t really keep up with them. I’ve also gone through a couple of, “Music sucks now, they don’t make it like they use to,” phases but changed my mind after hearing a lot of good new songs. Anyway, what about you? Do you keep up? ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/2 "2010-03-02T03:49:13Z")
I do keep up my my core genre of music which is metal/hardcore and I’m 33. I don’t know the names of any of the billboard acts that my kids listen to. Not because I’m too cool for that but because I really have no idea who they are. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/3 "2010-03-02T03:50:33Z")
I listened to a top 40 radio station this weekend, there were 3 identical songs in a row, all sounded like the same nasally-voiced R&B singer, two of them referenced going back to a condo and two of them talked about doing it from behind. I don’t think I’m missing much. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/4 "2010-03-02T03:50:43Z")
Crap…mods, close this thread…it’s supposed to be poll. I started making this thread and closed it down to make a different one. I didn’t know it would post. sorry Cubsfan, my other thread will be up in a minute. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/5 "2010-03-02T03:50:49Z")
I probably average 3 albums / month. Usually electronic. I’m 28. I still keep up religiously with the genres I’m into. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/6 "2010-03-02T03:53:14Z")
Closed at request of OP. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/7 "2010-03-02T03:58:03Z")
Reopened at request of OP. **sigh** ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/8 "2010-03-02T04:01:26Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Reopened at request of OP. > > **sigh** I’m very sorry. I’ll explain. I started to make a post just like this one, but closed it for…well, to make a long story short, I closed it. Somehow it posted anyway but I didn’t know it. I started working on this one and got a response to the other and somehow got a response to this one even though I was still in the middle of working on my poll options. Anyway, I thought I went to my other post and asked to have it closed, only to realize that I asked to close this one instead. OK, so maybe the explanation isn’t that short, but anyway, it won’t happen again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/9 "2010-03-02T04:03:21Z")
Well, you should have just left it closed, since the poll is all screwed up: you can only check one box, and you asked 3 different questions. I’ll wait for the poll to be fixed or for a new thread before I post any answers. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/10 "2010-03-02T04:04:13Z")
My first poll, and it didn’t turn out good at all. There were supposed to be check boxes, not radio boxes. Crap :(. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/11 "2010-03-02T04:06:55Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Well, you should have just left it closed, since the poll is all screwed up: you can only check one box, and you asked 3 different questions. > > I’ll wait for the poll to be fixed or for a new thread before I post any answers. Yeah, I just noticed that. I might wait a couple minutes before bothering poor Twickster again. OK, I asked to have the poll fixed. My apologies to everybody. It’s my first poll. If I ever make any more I know what to do now. Although I’m certain that I followed the proper directions to make the options check boxes, so I don’t know why it didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/12 "2010-03-02T04:15:51Z")
We can add or subtract answers to the poll but I don’t think we can change those options, **Nobody**. Sorry. I think you need to do this one more time. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-up-with-current-music/530957/13 "2010-03-02T04:21:33Z")
The only two (2) stations I watch is BBC News and MTV out of Taiwan. And the only radio station we have on at home is Met 107 FM, which plays hits from the US. So the wife and I manage to keep up to a certain extent. Did not answer the poll above, because it’s screwed.