Those over 35 do you like new music from new artist

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I’m saying that most people enjoy socializing, and the music is an excuse. It gives them an excuse to touch each other and show off their physique, via dancing, and so they enjoy the fact that music enables that. And they like, in modern day, the political/cliqueish stylings of the band, as part of their personal identity for finding friends.

I would also say that they don’t like dancing either. If you get a dance song going, then the music is just something repetitive and consistent in tone and beat. And if you watch the people dancing, they’re just repeating the same one or two moves in a loop, to the beat, for however many minutes. If you ask them, they’ll say that they’re being “free” and “expressive”, but that’s clearly false. You could superimpose a 5 second clip on a loop over their live dance and it would line up.

Only a few people genuinely care about and are interested in the music, for the music. Only a few people genuinely care about and are interested in dancing, for the dancing. It’s really all about social interaction. Listening to the music or dancing on your own is just practice for when you’re going to need to display your knowledge for the rest of the group.

Personally, I’m just not a person who puts weight in words. The actions say the opposite of the words and I put 99% of the weight on actions.

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Just to be clear, what most bothers me about Lil Wayne’s lyrics is the lack of talent and imagination it takes to write them.
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I never really was one to follow bands or artists in the first place.
Ask me who’s my favorite artist of the last 5 years, I’d draw a blank. But there are plenty of individual tracks from the last 5 years that I absolutely love.

Although, like many have expressed here, the mainstream leaves me quite cold. I envy people who can listen to the top 40 and find many tracks they like, for me finding good music is far more difficult than that.

B 1979

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I listen to the radio, FM and AM, I love to hear music from every decade and the volunteer programmers at my local commercial free radio station definitely broaden my musical horizons with new artists and genres.

I was watching a movie the other day, Nappily Ever After, and I loved the soundtrack so much that i had to look it up and yep lots of unknown artists to me but slightly familiar tunes. Birdy, Esthero, some others I’m liking what I’m hearing!

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Speaking of new music from new artists, these guys are great: Greta Van Fleet. Reminds me of Led Zeppelin. Singer does not look like he would have that voice.

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Born 1964. So that means I was 37 when I first discovered the White Stripes, which has been a bit of an obsession since. Saw Jack for the twentieth time at the weekend.

Other bands I love which have definitely been discovered since turning 35 - Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand, The Fratellis, Muse, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Datsuns, Lana Del Rey, Pendulum - just off the top of my head. Most recent discovery - Kaleo.

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The singer does sound like Plant. The music is just blues rock. Zeppelin played some blues in a rock style, but they were actually playing blues standards or “lightly mauled” variants. Their own music, on the other hand, was generally centered on power chord progressions to create a sort of sense of a thunderous machine advancing.

GVF doesn’t seem to be doing either of those things. Closer on the first, but not quite the same.

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I’m 60.

I’m always wanting new music but it’s gotten harder to find over the years. I stopped listening to the radio a few years ago.

Back in the 90’s when MTV had 120 Minutes on Sunday nights, I taped it, then watched Mondays after work to find bands I wanted to explore. Found The Charlatans, Midnight Oil, Lush and Ministry that way. After that went away, there was a gap.

When I got cable TV again a few years back (after 8 years without), I had a channel called Palladia. They had video shows on in the middle of the night called Epic. Awesome. Videos. I taped all those and found some bands. They also showed highlights of the European music festivals and that’s how I found Kasabain, Django Django, and Arctic Monkeys. Then MTV bought it or took control of it and sucked all the goodness out of it.

I also make lists from threads like these and that’s how I found MS MR, Black Honey and Warpaint.

Always on the lookout.

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I’m 35, so right on the cut off. Oddly, I stopped listening to new music in about 2001, then started listening to the radio again, and youtube playlists about 2 years ago. I tend to listen to more new than old stuff again.

I actually find the youtube ones pretty annoying though; initially it’s a great way of finding similar music, but gets caught in ruts too much.

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None of that really relates to whether or not people like music.

What has the question of who wrote the music got to do with whether or not people like it? :confused:

I can really like a song without liking other songs the same writer has written or the same singer has sung. Most of the time I hear a new piece of music by a new band, I have no idea who it’s by, let alone who wrote it. Should I withhold judgement in case it’s written by someone I don’t usually enjoy? Am I just not allowed to say, or think ‘I like that song!’ without research?

It’s not actually required to be a dedicated fan, just to like something. I mean, I like some colours, but I’m not saying anything about their artistic integrity.

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I’m 38. I almost exclusively listen to new stuff, especially new hip-hop artists (a genre I made fun of when I was growing up in the 1990s). I almost never listen to 1990s music anymore.

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Last month I drove 700 miles from San Francisco to Portland, OR to see CHVRCHES. The concert was fantastic.

I’m 54 years old, so even while I was enjoying the show immensely, a part of my brain kept yelling at me that I wasn’t supposed to enjoy a band that featured no guitars.

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If you like something, you’ll try and find more things that are similar to it, on the assumption that you’ll like those, too.

So if, when you go searching, you choose more music from the same performer, then we know that what you liked was the performer. If, when you go searching, you choose more music from the same writer, then we know that what you liked was the song.

And you might say that performer has a large impact on what the song sounds like. And that may be true, but if you listen to a lot of albums in the “popular” category - so, the ones that 90% of everyone listens to - you’ll note that there’s usually just one good song and a whole bunch of just sort of filler songs. And the one good song is the favorite song not just of you, the song critic, it’s also the favorite song of all of the fans. And then you look at the credits and note that the best song was written by a man named Biff Wimbledorf, while every other song on the album was written by the performer whose album it is, Cynthia Sparkles.

And then if you go and check, you’ll discover that Biff Windledorf wrote the most popular song for almost every single performer, the one that’s always on the radio, the one that they play at dance clubs, and so on, whileas no one ever actually listens to any of the other songs by Cynthia Sparkles, except the other ones that weren’t written by her. And if you were to point out that they only ever listen to the songs she Biff and others wrote, and that they could get more Biff songs by buying this song from Jiggy Doodah and that song by Samantha Bootycakes, they won’t buy it, because it’s the wrong genre, or the artist isn’t beautiful, or the artist doesn’t dress all goth-chique.

I think that’s fair evidence that they’re not in it for the music. If I listen to a band and 90% of their work is crap, and the only one that isn’t is the only one not written by the band, then very simple logic decrees that the band is not the thing which is adding the goodness; Biff is.

The only problem, then, being is that Biff makes a living selling all of his best songs to other people and only performs his lesser music in his personal act. So you can’t go and buy a Biff Windledorf album and expect much. It will be better than the crap you’d get listening to all of Cynthia Sparkles’ other music, but none of the really good stuff.

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Eh, not necessarily. It’s ok to enjoy something in the moment and feel confident that you’ll come across other stuff you like as well without making it a quest. Especially these days where you have tons of services designed around “You like this song? Here’s other songs you’ll probably enjoy based on its structure, genre, etc”. Which is frankly a more interesting concept to me than “These both say written by Guy Songton in the liner notes”.

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I’m rarely surprised anymore when i like a song by a singer i don’t usually like, or normally listen to, only to find out Ed Sheeran wrote it.

That boy gets around.

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Just buying the album is, in essence, looking for more stuff along the same line.

Given that in previous times record sales were the primary income source, I think it’s fair to say that people did buy albums.

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Late to the party. I have a love for a wide variety of music, blues, jazz, classic, rock, standards - though I am pretty darned old… If someone younger shared their love of newer music with me, as my daughter did when she was growing up and expanding my horizons, I would be all for that. That’s how I got a lot more favorite musics…but now, no one cares to do so, and I sure don’t care any more about searching it out. I loathe rap and hip hop and really am bored sick hearing about any young drugged out sluts and burnouts who are making shit now. Boring! But they have some audience, I know not who - 13 year olds? … I will be in my room listening to oldies, interspersed with light jazz . and . nuttin’ but show tunes. Enjoy yourselves, folks.

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Absolutely! I am 50+ and I’m so tired of all that shit i listened to over and over and over and over in my past. My wife still loves it, so it’s not going away. But I’ve GOT to have new music/new sounds. It is my panacea.

However, I usually don’t like what commercial radio/media is pushing on me. I’ll stop short of calling it crap, but a lot of it is. I find good artists on college and independent radio as well as music-specific internet sites. There’s some delightful talent out there, but I’ve got to mine the stuff; it isn’t readily presented to me.

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It was also commonly the way to get the song(s) you already knew you were interested in. Besides, back in the heyday of the album, you didn’t really have a way of finding specific music by a specific songwriter. Even if you knew Joe Smith wrote the song you liked, you weren’t going to be able to just pick out every song by every artist he wrote. These days you can via the magic of the internet, but these days you also listen to tracks on YouTube or samples on iTunes, etc and buy your music a la carte rather than buying entire albums largely unheard and hoping it’s good.

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I discovered my favorite band (Wilco) when I close to 40. Courtney Barnett is another artist I love, I started listening to her about 4 years ago (I’m now close to 60).