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by Hype » Wed Apr 26, 2017 8:26 pm
Man, I didn't mean that to be a huge insult... it just seemed like a good example of what the guy in the article was talking about -- there's just something that seems not quite right about adults continuing to chase bands and make them part of their identities well after this should have already been figured out. This is different from continuing to listen to new music and try it out, and it's even different from continuing to idolize the music of your formative years. There's a reason why 85 year olds liked Elvis, but didn't like Donny Osmond or Justin Bieber, and it isn't that any of these are objectively better or worse, it's just how pop music works. There would be something really strange about a person who went through Beatlemania then obsessing about the Spice Girls 30 years later.
Again, the article doesn't suggest people can't find new music they like. But it does give, I still say, a pretty good account of why it's reasonable to stop putting in as much effort to find music to love as we did in our teens and early 20s. This says nothing at all about the actual quality of music today, or music 20 years ago, or music 40 years ago. That is irrelevant. We all agree that there is good music all the time, everywhere, if you look. But it doesn't follow that everyone should always be looking.