# Those over 35 do you like new music from new artist **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889 "2018-10-13T00:53:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/61 "2018-10-13T23:06:51Z")
Mid 50s, and listen to more newer stuff than the classic & prog rock I grew up on. Usually get out to a show of some sort about once a month. I like a number of indie/alternative bands like New Pornographers, Florence & the Machine, The National, The Hold Steady, CHVRCHES, etc. I also listen to a lot of newer artists in the alt-folk/newgrass spectrum some of which have been mentioned above: Mumford and Sons, Lumineers, First Aid Kit, Aoife O’Donovan/Sarah Jarosz/Sarah Watkins, Avett Brothers, Mipso, Brandi Carlisle, Amos Lee, The Decemberists, Punch Brothers, etc… Manage to get out to see a show of some sort about once a month. Not much for hip-hop, but I worship at Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feet. Those of you looking for an eclectic mix might check out the stream of Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current (89.3 FM). Their DJs really know their music, new and old, and do a nice job of educating their listeners, too. And they don’t have to play what sells commercials. You can see how eclectic the playlist is here: [https://www.thecurrent.org/playlist](https://www.thecurrent.org/playlist) ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/62 "2018-10-13T23:08:30Z")
> [@HowSoonIsThen](#): > > Ever listened to Sun Kil Moon, Father John Misty, or the National? They don’t necessarily sound like Sufjan, it’s more the vibe they give off. If I’m in the mood to listen to Sufjan, I’m also in the mood to listen to those three. > > I’m still quite a few years off 35. Right now I’m still listening to new music, but I’ll come back in the future and update you. I will look them up, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/63 "2018-10-13T23:25:53Z")
I turned 35 in 1999, the year Clear Channel basically took over a lot of the airwaves, and it was more this than my age that means that my knowledge of current popular music basically ends then. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/64 "2018-10-13T23:28:22Z")
I’m 45. I hear a new song, get all excited, go to buy it and learn it actually came out in 2009. But it’s new to me! ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/65 "2018-10-13T23:40:25Z")
> [@bionic\_man](#): > > After a person reach"s a certain age they usually prefer artist from their generation then newer acts does anyone over 35 like new performers?? Of course. Orchestral music is my thing, particularly the Baroque, but I continue to enjoy new music, primarily in films. OTOH if you’re asking after pop music, then it’s just not my thing. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/66 "2018-10-13T23:43:43Z")
I always have the sneaking suspicion that people who think that there hasn’t been any good new music since the 1960s or 70s would have _hated_ that same music when it was still new. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/67 "2018-10-14T00:40:28Z")
I’m over 60 and love Daft Punk, Royksopp and Vampire weekend. I’m reluctant to be close minded but I won’t try Beyonce, Taylor Swift, etc. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/68 "2018-10-14T01:08:00Z")
I am over 50 and the answers are both “yes”. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/69 "2018-10-14T02:08:09Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > I always have the sneaking suspicion that people who think that there hasn’t been any good new music since the 1960s or 70s would have _hated_ that same music when it was still new. You have it completely backwards. We loved it when it was new, as we do now. mmm ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/70 "2018-10-14T02:55:06Z")
Yeah, sure; why not? I can’t stand to listen to “Classic Rock” anymore, because I’ve heard everything on their playlist (even the songs I like!) hundreds of times, over-and-over again over the decades. So I listen to modern Pop-Rock and Alternative stations, as well as one really eclectic local station that plays Blues, Jazz, Folk (traditional and contemporary) as well as select Alternative; you never know what you’re going to get when you tune in, but one thing’s for damned sure: it will _never_\* be “Turn The Page” or “Stairway To Heaven.” ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/71 "2018-10-14T03:19:45Z")
I am only 57 years old, and I listen exclusively to alternative music. I had two songs in the running for my favorite song of the year: Leon Bridges “Beyond” [Leon Bridges - Beyond (Official Video) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELPOCJvDz3w) and Vance Joy “Saturday Sun” [Vance Joy - Saturday Sun [Official Video] - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKqMNQkjHmI&start_radio=1&list=RDuKqMNQkjHmI) However, a new dark horse has entered the ring, and I mean dark. But I really like it. Eminem featuring Rihanna “The Monster” [Eminem - The Monster ft. Rihanna (Audio) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDXXi19_7iE) ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/72 "2018-10-14T07:23:16Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Interesting user name/ musical taste combination. Well, it helps if you know my initials are BGS. But I have to admit I love the 60s BeeGees. Before someone decided that a shrieking falsetto was The Cutting Edge of Music. I also have too admit that i made a conscious decision tho broaden my horizons. I quit listening to the radio in my car out at home in the mid nineties. I worked part time at a bar with live music. I played cds. But most djs annoyed the crap out of me. Between morning shows and talk radio, I found that listening to the radio just made me angry. That’s no way to get through the day. About five years ago, our local PBS radio station added a new all music (as opposed to music and npr shows) sister station. I really didn’t want too be constantly living in the past, so I decided to listen. It’s paid off as far as I’m concerned. If memories were all i heard, I’d rather drive a truck. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/73 "2018-10-14T07:29:10Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > Yeah, sure; why not? > > I can’t stand to listen to “Classic Rock” anymore, because I’ve heard everything on their playlist (even the songs I like!) hundreds of times, over-and-over again over the decades. > > So I listen to modern Pop-Rock and Alternative stations, as well as one really eclectic local station that plays Blues, Jazz, Folk (traditional and contemporary) as well as select Alternative; you never know what you’re going to get when you tune in, but one thing’s for damned sure: it will _never_\* be “Turn The Page” or “Stairway To Heaven.” Preach it, bro. There are still some ‘classic rock’ songs I don’t mind hearing, but the best way to keep on liking them when I hear them is to NOT listen to classic-rock stations anymore. Even the best songs have only so many times you can listen to them before they get old. The number of times may be in the thousands, but the classic rock format will make sure you hear the songs on their playlists literally thousands of times, if that’s the format you listen to. A few years ago, I went from listening to some classic rock in my mix, and changing the station when a worn-out song came on, to not listening to classic rock at all. It’s improved the quality of life. All those songs that have used up their last listen, and then some? I never hear even the opening notes any more. They’re gone, and the world’s a better place without them. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/74 "2018-10-14T09:50:53Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Sorry, but “new to me”, generally meaning “bands or performers that had their peak when I was a teenager” really can’t count as new music. 😕 You seem to have **completely** misread what I wrote. ‘[N]ew to me’ was part of a heavily qualified (‘granted’, ‘some’, ‘merely’) side-clause. Also ‘bands that had their peak when I was a teenager’ is explicitly only a subgroup within that side-clause. Bands that peaked when my parents were teenagers are a lot more likely to come up…even bands that peaked when my _grandparents_ were teenagers are at least as likely (thank you, Fallout 3). But bands not even formed until I was in my late 20s or 30s (and, in a few cases, the members weren’t even BORN until I was in my 20s) are certainly much more likely to come up in my seeking out new stuff - especially given that the old stuff that would appeal to me, I’m a lot less likely to have never found, yet. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/75 "2018-10-14T12:59:32Z")
Late 40’s. I stopped listening to pop stations in 1991, except when I go shopping. There are few songs created since 1991 that I even recognize, let alone like. Since music companies now refuse to take risks and only sign cookie-cutter singers, and almost all pop songs were written by the same people, there’s little to interest me anyway. There are many new artists I like, but in another genre: Contemporary Christian Music. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/76 "2018-10-14T13:49:33Z")
My listening to any music _at all_ has dropped by about 99% from when I was a teen. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/77 "2018-10-14T17:49:58Z")
> [@Jungian\_Camisole](#): > > However, a new dark horse has entered the ring, and I mean dark. But I really like it. > > Eminem featuring Rihanna “The Monster” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDXXi19\_7iE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDXXi19_7iE) I do like Rihanna. She chooses her collaborators well, and consistently produces excellent pop tunes, often with a darker edge than her peers. The Bajan accent helps too… The Monster isn’t her first collab with Eminem - even darker is 2010’s [Love The Way You Lie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U). I must admit I don’t listen to much in the way of contemporary guitar music - I really only rate Wolf Alice, and that’s probably because I loved all the bands they are heavily influenced by ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/78 "2018-10-14T20:51:44Z")
Born in 1963. Some newer bands I like a lot, some I don’t. That was also true when I was 19. And some of the stuff I did like when I was younger I can’t stand to hear now. Just in the last year I’ve gone to see Lady Gaga, Lake Street Dive, and Janelle Monae. If I like it I like it, doesn’t matter when it came out. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/79 "2018-10-14T21:17:30Z")
I am over 50 and like most of the people here, I still like new music. Also, for people saying they like Daft Punk, they were formed in 1993… ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889/80 "2018-10-14T22:01:40Z")
Nearing 50 fast here, and yeah. I still like new music. More good music is being made and released today than ever before, partly because it’s even easier to record and release than ever before. Finding it is still work, but since I’ve never really liked pop music much, that’s nothing new to myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-over-35-do-you-like-new-music-from-new-artist/822889.md?page=5)