I find I like new individual songs than groups these days …. but I find I don’t mind the return to singles as much …. I mean who wants to pay 14.95 on a 16-20 song track when you only like track 1 3 7 9 12 15 and 18?
and since big and tupac died hip hop aint got nothin socially meaningful to say
On the bad side of 40 for some time.
For me, three of the biggest immediate perks of adulthood were 1. no more friggin’ high school, 2. my own car, and 3. my own car radio, finally freeing me from the endless deluge of bland music I’d been forced to listen to for years. Hawaii’s first ever alt-rock station kicked off at about this time; I tuned in and never looked back.
I’d say '90 to around '08-ish were my peak for picking up new artists and building my now-burgeoning CD collection. Now I find that there aren’t that many new artists or songs that really wow me, and since most of the radio hits are on YouTube, there isn’t as much incentive now to buy new disks. Just the diminishing-returns effect. I’m also finding that some of the later supposedly “alternative” artists have let pop conventions slowly but steadily creep into their work. (The first time I heard the word “heart”, that was a red flag.)
I still listen to my alt-rock station, jumping to the classic rock station and the classical music station for variety, but I’m no longer concerned about finding out about the artists or finding the songs online. Mostly I’m just glad they’re there.
Short answer: yes
Longer answer: I am 49, and I think a lot of modern (21st century) pop music is overproduced, autotuned dreck. Having said that, I really enjoy Adele’s music, and a lot of Lady Gaga and Rhianna. I recognize Beyoncé’s talent (and looks 
) but am not a huge fan. Hip hop hasn’t really been appealing since the 90’s though. Maybe Eminem.
Yeppers! I’m closing in on 51 and IMHO the musical landscape has never been better! Sure, there is some truly awful drivel out there but there are so many great artists that deserve more radio play and don’t get it. My tastes are bit all over the map but:
Black Keys
Rhianna
Shaky Graves
Daft Punk
Macklemore
Eminem
Asking Alexandria
Breaking Benjamin
Green Day
Lady Antebellum
Arianna Grande (Simply a phenomenal voice!)
Foo Fighters
Chet Faker (The remake of No Diggity is wicked!)
Post Modern Jukebox
Drake
blah, blah,blah. If you can’t find something great to listen to that’s new, you’re not looking very hard.
1958
Absolutely!
From LD to Eminem, bring it.
Biff may also be a better composer than performer, or write songs which are heavy on the vocals while having a short range himself, or even not record/perform in public.
I love music. I LOVE music.
This is not music. If this clown fuck claimed to be a musician in my presence it would start a fight. He needs to find a volcano to swim in.
This isn’t a case of “get off my lawn”. Modern music is under assault from corporate formulary interference. I cite the TRUTH Why Modern Music is Awful.
this is not to say there aren’t talented musicians today. They’re out there. they just aren’t getting the support their talent is due.
I do discover new music that I find excellent. The problem is that I rarely encounter new music (I don’t watch TV nor listen to radio, and I’m rather reclusive), and I’m not very inclined to search actively for it. So, it doesn’t happen often.
Bit what surprises me more, in fact, is that I’m discovering a lot of old music, and in particular music from my own generation, that I completely ignored until now. Not because I never heard it, since it includes a lot of very famous pieces. Rather, that I somehow never paid attention to until now.
I love music as well but this video was mostly about pop music. My current favorites are Lady Gaga (who writes her own music and has an incredible voice) and Donald Glover/Childish Gambino (who writes his own music). I’m thinking they get plenty of support.
I’m 45, and yes. I listen to new artists.
In general, I like trying new stuff: music, visual artists, restaurants, etc. I don’t think that’s going to change any time soon. ISTM that whether you listen to new artists has much more to do with personality or interests than it does with age.
I listen to various SiriusXM stations in the car, and my wife plays free pandora stations at home. Those include channels with newly recorded stuff in a variety of genres. We don’t stick strictly to ‘classic’ or ‘songs of the X’s’ stations. A disproportionate percentage is jazz, whereas I’m guessing the OP question is more assuming pop. Although I don’t think in general recent jazz recordings in the classic styles fully measure up to the greatest in each style at its time (30’s-60’s, true innovation in jazz since then is not so widespread IMO, it’s become more like classical music, mainly revolving around performers who pay homage to great works, artists and styles of the past).
But as far as being an actual fan of a current, and fairly new, big time pop star or band, not much. I recognize and like some songs by acts I assume nearly all younger people have heard of (Maroon 5, Coldplay, Lady Gaga, etc). But only song by song, I never buy albums of newer pop acts, and songs recorded in say the last 10 yrs are a small % of my I-tunes library. And I find as others have mentioned that many apparently famous acts, especially rap/hip-hop oriented, are people whose name or sometimes faces I only know from the news. I read for example recently Ariana Grande was first since The Beatles with 1, 2 and 3 song on some major chart. I’ve seen her in the news and on commercials, but I’m not sure I’ve ever heard her sing.
The beginning of the millennial generation fits in with “over 35” by some definitions. I am slightly over 35.
I used to listen to almost all stuff that came out before I was born, being heavily biased by the radio choices of my parents. When I was a kid, I thought modern music of the time was mostly absolute garbage in comparison, but I later came to realize that was because the classic rock stations were playing all the greatest songs and modern stations were playing whatever was new, whether it would stand the test of time or not.
Anyway, I eventually got Pandora, and I listened to The Who, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Pink Floyd, Rush, and discovered a bunch of new stuff by those kind of artists I hadn’t heard before and was introduced to new-to-me music that happened to come out in the same time period. But one time Pandora played this weird instrumental that was really heavy metal-based by an artist I never heard of (Epica), and I thought it was kinda cool. So I made a station based around it, and then suddenly there was a whole genre of music I never knew existed that I liked a lot - symphonic metal. It was all new-to-me, and it was all much newer than what I listened to, but when I looked up when it came out, it was normally several years in the past.
I ended up finding various other genres of music this way: epic trailer/soundtrack stuff typified by Two Steps From Hell, violin/cello artists like Lindsay Sterling, Celtic fiddling from artists like Natalie MacMaster, and Spanish guitar from guys like Armik. How new is any of it? Eh, not too much. But it’s all new-to-me and it’s nothing that I would ever have heard on a preset radio station. There are no Sirius XM stations dedicated to anything like those genres. If I want symphonic metal, I would have to go to the metal channel that’s most likely to play it. Which one? I have no idea. If I want Spanish guitar, maybe there’s a Latin station that sometimes plays it, but I’m not going to try to find out. I’m just going to keep using Pandora, which will bring new stuff to me that I never would have realized existed without it.
As to life music, I’ve been to two Natalie MacMaster concerts, and at neither one did she play a single tune I had ever heard before. They weren’t bad and I didn’t pay for them, but they reinforced my view that live music will tend to be mixed very badly compared to studio recordings. I also managed to get someone to pay for me to see 2Cellos, and they did play exactly what I had listened to on Pandora (and even some heavier stuff), but I again was generally left with the feeling that if I had paid for the concert I would have been better off spending money on an equivalent number of studio recordings that I could listen to countless times.
All of my physical library of music gets play in one very specific circumstance that doesn’t come up very often, so my old collection of mostly classic and prog rock gets minimal ear time (outside of when I’m in the car with my mother) and keeps its luster. In my car I listen to CDs that have 700 megs of MP3s on them, played on shuffle, and it’s something like having my own “top 100” station on a certain theme where if I get tired of the music I just switch it out for another CD with an entirely different set of 100 or so songs.
Wait, which link? Lil Pump? Yeah he’s BS.
If you are doubting Kendrick we should talk.