When Do We Stop Keeping Up With Popular Music?
 

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Link: When Do We Stop Keeping Up With Popular Music? - hypebot

Interesting enough, I have a few friends that are exceptions to those stats, including myself. I like some of the new music coming out every day, but then again, I try to stay obscurely relevant in the music scene around where I live, so that has some impact on what I'm willing to listen to.

Sorry Chula, and TH. You're not even included. I guess people just shut it all off after 48. <----joke

I think most people on this forum probably stopped in their mid or late teens. I've kind of rebounded, for a long time I'd make a conscious effort to dig as deep as I could, now I'm kind of relapsing into the classics.

Ah, the hearing goes, y'see. And it's hard to get those Edison cylinders where I live. Bloody gramaphone records! Keep your new-fangled rubbish away from me! If I can't hear the scratches and pops, and if I can make out the singer, then it ain't music to me, sonny, nohow!

I'm constantly listening to new music. In fact, part of the big reason I don't know the lyrics to my favorite songs is because I don't listen to them as often as you would think due to this habit. I was actually thinking about this the other day. I honestly can't see myself stopping what I like to do. I'll always be interested in what's new, but I also can't see myself digging into underground hip hop when I'm 45.

We'll see I guess.

I'm still another exception. By age 18 I had a mere ~30 albums to my name and really hadn't explored much beyond alternative rock radio. But in the last 3-4 years I've expanded my horizons and my library to include ~13,000 wonderful albums and studied the history of countless genres I'd never read about in my teens.

My most active years of musical exploration have been the last 5 - age 29-33.

Is this about popular music or all new music?
There is great new music being released constantly and I'm always on the lookout, but I haven't paid attention to "the charts" since I was about 17.

My chart would probably resemble a drunken moth around a lightbulb