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Why Do We Stop Exploring New Music as We Get Older?

b-turner said:
Original Sample. Thank you for the insult. I knew none of your friends listened. You need to re-read my post. And the bubble I am in is selling radio advertising in a small market. We do very well. If that's living a bubble, don't pop the damn thing because it's pretty sweet and lucrative.
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Not an insult. That’s what I don’t like about this forum, every disagreement is taken as an insult. And good for you seriously.

I’m not going to respond to anything else. It’s just a waste of time.
 
Decisions are often hard. People getting set in their ways is just an intellectual shortcut. Learning about new things takes effort, even if it is something as trivial as Harry Styles. It's easier to play Garth Brooks and get on with it.

People take lots of intellectual shortcuts. Understanding the effect, at a neurological level, most likely requires asking the broad question, not the narrow one.
 
I'm an outlier, obviously. Generation Jones, and unlike some of my generational compatriots, I'm bored with the music I grew up with -- and that covers several stages of "music I grew up with" -- was it the 60s-70s rock and pop, or was it the 80's new wave, metal and alternative? Then there were the grunge years - much of which I loved.

The music I miss hearing the most on the radio is late 1990's-2000's era nu-metal and 2012's pop music currents and recurrents.

I think anyone can like anything they hear on the radio (or nowadays, on YT or elsewhere on the internet).

Perhaps many folks prefer what they grew up with because it reminds them of better days. And there probably is something to that idea. I've also seen many such comments beneath songs on YT.

But it doesn't have to be locked in stone. In my case, some of the music of 2001 reminds me of a better time. Same thing with 1984 and 2012. But either the music was good, or it wasn't, and that ultimately is the reason I listen to whatever I call up on YT or tune in on the radio. Crap music from a "better time" is still crap music. Doesn't mean I'm so close-minded that I won't listen to it now and then, but I certainly don't favor something I dislike, regardless of the era the song was in.
 
It took me a while to branch out of the music I grew up with (roughly 2006-2010 pop/rock), but glad I did as it introduced me to new styles of music.
 
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