With the advent of Spotify I can see all of the music my friends are listening to, if I filter to people my younger sisters age and younger it’s mostly all the same stuff they listened to in high school.
If I filter by people’s my ex-girlfriends age:
I find everyone is listening to newer music. Tropical house playlists, just generally newer music to the point where I put on Bangarang by Skrillex in the car the other day and everyone called it “old school”. That term has been a point of debate among my friends and even on streams to the point that some argue nothing before 90’s should be called old school but I’d argue for the 2000's
Few I think would truly consider Skrillex old but I have friends whose taste in music isn’t even that modern. My younger sister just got married and at the wedding reception, man the tracks they were picking were ancient.
I mean un-ironic listening to Smash Mouth’s All Star, Fallout Boy, Justin Timberlake, Ashlee Simpson, Good Charlotte, Nsync and all the offbrand boys.
It was like everyone there got an iPod, set it in the year 2004, forgot about music for the next 13 years then planned a playlist around it without the decency to remember “back that azz up” or “Thong Song”.
Now it’s my sister and it’s her day and I know she’s corny so I’m not going to say anything. Even though I am kind of salty since she knows I’m a DJ, all my friends are DJ’s and we’d have much better song selection and don’t take requests because requests are always wrong as her friends demonstrated but I’m just gonna leave it.
I thought it was just her or some kind of a weird fluke but ever since then I’ve noticed a lot of people aren’t looking for or at new music. Like they had some kind of taste freeze.
I feel guilty I haven’t given Wu Tang A Better Tomorrow nearly as many listens as 36 chambers but I’m pretty sure there’s people that don’t even KNOW about their newer work.
It seems so strange that we have more ways to listen to music than ever and so many people don’t expand their horizons. They connect to these large infrastructures that have millions of artists unheard of and they listen to the same old songs they always do.
Your tastes could grow so much, I don’t listen to much mainstream but I mean if you just search you can find some very interesting tracks locally, internationally, in other languages new styles and genres you’ve never heard.
That in particular might not be your cup of tea but don’t let your tastes freeze, that’s like not growing. There’s nothing wrong with sticking to the classics but give something new a chance!
Like my soundcloud! I just got weird with vocaloids and drum and bass
as well as some punk,
& R&B
I’m always trying new things and ways to evolve as an artist and I think we should all try new things and evolve as people no matter how old you are.