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Music just isn't good anymore (mander.xyz)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 146 points 5 months ago (14 children)

No fate but what we make. You can put in the effort to keep your mind and your ears open. Absolutely worth it IMHO.

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  • [–] 86 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Why should I bother when all the best music came out before I was 35?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I try my best to do this, and find lots of great new music.

    I still find a lot of new popular music just doesn't do it for me, and I think it's because as you've heard more music, the it's harder to find something that sounds fresh.

    When I was in the peak of that chart I was really into stuff like Spacehog, who seemed really cool to me at the time, but probably would have sounded a bit derivative to my parents. At the same time my dad loved Smashing Pumpkins enough to buy all their albums...

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Certainly, of course all the old stuff is good because that is the stuff that you already curated into your personal preferences. There was a LOT of shit from pretty much any era, its just that the younger version of you already pawed through all that shit. Listening to new music means having to paw through a lot of crap, which is always harder than just listening to stuff you already like.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Plus there's so much more music each day it all gets diluted and hard to find.

    I also always felt like as we move on artists will be much smaller as far as their following, like their time of fame will be smaller and shorter. Comparing like Beethoven who is world famous for generations to like metallica who is pretty big then like Taylor swift who is also huge but I feel each window getting shorter lived as more people spread out their preferences amongst all the artists and people use algorithms instead of buying an artists CD

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    It also can be pretty hard to find music you will actually like. Every streaming and sales service is more interested in promoting content based on who paid them off or based on what is cheap for them to stream. It seems like there are not a lot of resources geared specifically with connecting you to music that you are likely to enjoy.

    I usually troll through new albums each month and just listen to a bunch of stuff until I find something I like.

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