Sunday, August 7, 2011

Article: Aging & New Music

I find this intriguing, how many people stick to the music from their youth and often reject newer stuff.  It's very hard to get people, even in their 30's to pay attention to new music. Even more difficult if it's live music...  (I hope to help change all that.)

Why do pop-culture fans stop caring about new music as they get older? | Music | Crosstalk | The A.V. Club

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"What I don’t get is the hostility that new music sometimes engenders among aging fans. I’ve chided friends who grew up on punk and indie music for turning into what they always hated—nostalgia-happy, past-worshipping hippies—because they can’t consider the latest buzz band without going into the same tired rant about how artists today don’t have ‘edge,’ ‘relevance,’ or ‘originality’ by comparison with some overly idealized group from their past. I find that this opinion tends to say more about the listener than the state of contemporary music, which is too vast to be summed up by such sweepingly reductive statements."

(Continued... Why do pop-culture fans stop caring about new music as they get older? | Music | Crosstalk | The A.V. Club)

 

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