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When Do We Stop Finding New Music? - A Statistical Analysis (www.statsignificant.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Open-earedness refers to an individual's desire and ability to listen and consider different sounds and musical styling. Research has shown that adolescents exhibit higher levels of open-earedness, with a greater willingness to explore and appreciate diverse musical genres. During these years of sonic exploration, music gets wrapped up in the emotion and identity formation of youth; as a result, the songs of our childhood prove wildly influential over our lifelong music tastes.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Weird, I feel like the older I get the more diverse my musical tastes have become.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

On the one hand I have a similar experience. More then ever I love searching for artists with a sound that surprises me and that is engrossing.

On the other hand the top comment of every YouTube video of a popular artist from the past is "there has been no good music since [decades ago]".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

They should modify the saying "The only things that are guaranteed are death and taxes" to add "and older generations saying their music was the best"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel the same way. I'm appreciating genres I normally would have scoffed at when I was younger.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I'm almost 50 and my playlist has harry styles, Radiohead, Jacob collier, and ivy lab in queue.

In my 20s opera was my after party comedown music.

I may be odd.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same. I'm 37 and I do regular playlist exchanges with my dad's 70 year old friend (my dad passed away a few years ago and both of us strongly connected to him through music, so we decided to keep that going through each other). We're both constantly seeking out new music.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

My kids (early 20's, out and about) are doing the same....I accidentally deleted an entire playlist and they gave me our cobbled lists to create one mega playlist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Same! However I'm neurodivergent and the study is only talking about an overall trend among all people.