New Study Shows That People Stop Listening To New Music At 33

[waerth]

This is certainly true for many people I know.

 

Luckily I am an exception and still listen to new music all the time!

 

http://www.avclub.com/article/new-study-shows-people-stop-listening-new-music-33-218752?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview%3A1%3ADefault

 

 

If you’re 33 or older, you will never listen to new music again—at least, that’s more or less what a new online study says. The study, which is based mainly on data from U.S. Spotify users, concludes that age 33 is when, on average, people stop discovering new music and begin the official march to the grave.

 

The study’s author reached this conclusion by slicing up tons of Spotify user data, as well as artist popularity data from another site called The Echo Nest. If you’ve ever wondered “what is the end game of using online databases to catalog my every musical, cinematic, culinary, sports, and pornography preference?â€, this dizzying chart offers a small preview:

 

In this visualization, teens rest at the center of the nebula, listening almost exclusively to top Billboard hits and blissfully unaware that some rando is collecting data on their favorite jams. But age forces an outward spiral, as those teens turn to twentysomethings, begin exploring their options, and start making cool indie playlists for each other. After that, taste levels off and begins a long stasis, right as folks hit their mid-30s. As the study states:

 

“Two factors drive this transition away from popular music. First, listeners discover less-familiar music genres that they didn’t hear on FM radio as early teens, from artists with a lower popularity rank. Second, listeners are returning to the music that was popular when they were coming of age — but which has since phased out of popularity.â€

 

Perhaps this is why we heard an actual human blasting a circa-2000 Linkin Park song out of their car window the other day. Or perhaps some mysteries are best left unsolved.

 

A few side notes:

• This study appears on a blog called “Skynet & Ebertâ€. Unfortunately, a pair of sentient cybernetic film critics haven’t founded a peer-reviewed journal. It’s simply a blog run by a former management consultant who currently works at Spotify and The Echo Nest—the two sources used to gather all the data in the study.
  
• The study also claims that parents stop listening to new music a little earlier than their unfruitful peers. The author determined “parenthood†by the presence of children’s music and nursery lullabies on user playlists, presenting the possibility that the data set was tainted by creepy adults who lull themselves to sleep every night with
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[baa99]

[bust]

Utter crap.......

[Guest]

" New study shows that people stop listening to new music at 33 "

 

Yes true, I stopped ...

 

[YimSiam]

It's true for me, almost to the year pretty much - have just opted out after a period of digging into a new genre for a couple years, and now I don't even enjoy the old stuff with the depth and emotion I used to. Somehow when you're a teenage kid smoking joints and failing to put your angst into words, the music does it for you - until 33, apparently. Of course, the year I turned 33, the world actually did stop making new interesting or meaningful music, so that was a big part of my decision...

 

Another way of looking at it, is to say that around 33, we finally have the maturity and so on to identify and express our thoughts and emotions ourselves, or at least have given up on trying to deal with them, so no need to look for the latest group of hip kids running their band up the charts! Fuck 'em, and the backbeat they rode in on...

[The_Munchmaster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liyiT_DGREA

 

I always thought The Four Seasons were a black group!

[Mekong]

I just don't use Spotify

[Coss]

It's True, what YimSiam said,1993 they stopped making new music, it all got recycled from then on in.

 

You only have to look at the rise of the DJ, a species whose fame is measured by the ability to "mix" other people's music together, to see this.

 

Look at Kanye West ffsake, where is the originality?

 

And Hipity Hopity, or Rap or such, is not music, it's beat poetry, it's performance, its angst for angry young people, but it's not music, any more than a pile of dog shit is art.

 

Show me a new Rock n Roll, show me a new Disco, show me a new New Romantics. Nope 1993 was the year the music stopped.

 

Someone once tried to explain the genres of Dub and Bass and Bass and Dub and so on to me, I tried to explain that I could whack some of that out in 15 minutes using Reason and a laptop or an iPad, they didn't understand, they were young, they thought they'd invented everything.

[My Penis is hungry]

FARK, I'd hate to say but I'm with worth, lots of good music emerging all the time

[Coss]

"lots of good music emerging all the time"

 

I don't disagree, but it's not a new kind of music. "Disco" for example is not a rehash of a similar genre from a previous time. "Rock and Roll" is not something that existed before and was reinvented for the masses in the 50's and 60's.

 

Music these days can be very good, but I haven't heard anything "New" for a long time, it's all the same genres and styles from the 20th century.

 

Despite the attempts with Dumb and Basser.