I absolutely still listen to the same music I listened to at 14. There was a period in my young adulthood where I absolutely hated all popular music. However, that period passed. I'm now in my mid-30s and find even those songs enjoyable. I don't know if it's maturity, the improvement in my mental health, having access to anti-depressants, or a mix of the above.

I can't even listen to the music I liked 2 years ago. There's this brazillian genre called funk that I really like mainly because it's keep evolving pretty fast.

Nope! I listened to rap and metal when I was in school. Now, I listen only to Colundi.

This take is for people that primarily listen to pop music (of any genre, pop rock, pop punk. Stuff that is on the radio). Which is a huge amount of people. But it is unsurprising that on a niche community-based website like Lemmy, where a lot of people probably have an artistic tinge to them, that a bunch of you have a much more involved and active music discovery experience.

I feel like I’d be embarrassed to still listen to the same music I listened to at 14. 14 year old me didn’t have terrible taste, but goddamn there has been so much music since. I’m nearing 40 and I’m still finding new and more interesting or challenging music to listen to

I listen to stuff from the early 90s to remember my youth, for instance the first school trip I listened to a tape with Twenty 4 Seven - Street Moves when I got homesick.

Tbh I don't think I actually listened to music at that age, of my own accord rather than hearing what someone else around had on anyway.

Nope. What I listened to at 14 is whatever was in the radio on the car, usually oldies. Which I never really cared for. I didn't care about or start developing my own musical tastes until my 20s.

I did for a long time but have since moved on to listening to pretty much anything.

I’ve expanded my music library by quite a bit since then, but the core sounds remain largely the same.

The innovation of lo-fi though has been pretty sick.

I listen to way more than when I was a teenager now. Probably not a genre out there now without something I appreciate in it.

I wasn't gonna listen to music that everyone around me said was rubbish, so I just stuck to the genres of my friend groups (first half of the 00s: so mostly indie, nu-metal and big beat/electrohouse/idm, which wasn't exactly leaving me to starve for stuff to listen to)

I'll never understand this. I'm 40 and I'm still actively seeking out new music and listen to vastly more new releases than anything 5+ years old.

Of course I understand everyone has "their thing" and music happens to be my thing, so I understand the additional interest in my case, but the alternative just seems so damn boring to me...

I listen to 100x more varied/different music than I used to listen to.

but I also listen to what I used to listen to.

What a boring life that would be, damn.

Not even a little bit true for me. I listened to pretty much only country at 14 and I don't listen to any country now, not even the stuff I liked then. By 16 I had switched to mostly rock & alternative. I will still listen to that occasionally, mostly for nostalgia, but it isn't on any of my playlists. I suspect most everything on my regular playlists came out after I was 30, but it continues to shift forward over time. I suspect eventually most of my current playlist will age out too.

Lol nah

14 year old me listened to a lot of heavy metal variations along with emo rock and that kind of jazz. Now, as a 34 year old man, I still occasionally enjoy some of that, but my music taste has developed and matured, so now I mostly listen to girly pop music.

While I still like most of the music I did at age 14, I continue to find new music I like. I don't discard much. If I liked it at one point I usually still like it.

My musical tastes have changed dramatically through my life. I think that if you are still listening to the same thing as when you were 14 and now you're 40, you're probably lacking curiosity.

Not everybody is like that. I didn't hear a lot of pop music until college, and didn't really develop my own taste until my 20s.

A lot of people are happy enough inside their comfort zone, they're likely to die there. The people that say they haven't made good music since the XX's probably haven't spent much time searching for music they'd like.

Also here to brag about how my musical taste never stopped evolving. If I stayed stuck at 14 I'd still be a metalhead but I barely listen to any these days, meanwhile I've been through many more phases, I keep the bands and songs I loved most from each phase and add it to the pile. Also as I stack up the years my tastes gravitate towards lower and lower BPM and energy levels. By the time I'm 70 I'll probably only listen to drumless ambient drones or whatever.

When I was 14, "Zombie", by the Cranberries, was the music of the year.

I still go back occasionally but there's a lot more to listen. And I've discovered other genres since then.

This is actually not true at all for me. My music tastes completely evolved and still are evolving. Sure, if I listen to some 08 pendulum I feel some nostalgia, but I also feel nostalgia for 2112 in the same way. I think music is a comfort food for a lot of people so they never stray from what they know, which is fine. But there's so much out there to find.

I rarely listen to what 14 year old me listened to.

Mostly because many of my favorite groups hadn't formed yet 😅

It ain't me, sis/bro. I might occasionally find a song to loop for a while, but in general I hate when things play on repeat. Always searching for something new.

Heres some YouTube channels to find music on

Strange Music Inc
Epitaph Records
Spinnin' Records
Nuclear Blast Records
CloudKid
Fueled By Ramen
Metropolis Records
XKitoMusic
MrMoMMusic
MonstercatUncaged
Rock Montage
Cleopatra Records

and if you don't have a YT Alternative who can play all uploads then here's an extension for it by Catbraaain, but you do have to navigate to the uploads tab to see it.

I wouldn't brag about my music tastes not updating with new music.

I couldn't stand listening to the same 10 songs for years.

I listen to almost everything except what I listened at 14. At some point I figured out my peers had terrible musical taste and I started listening to what I actually enjoy.

1. I think it depends on the year. In my 14th year, there were relatively few bangers. There were a lot more ballads back then, and they've aged poorly.

2. I predate digital music, I listened to the radio, but only had so many tapes, so I didn't get to hear what I wanted all the time. What I did get to hear where those ballads over and over.

3. I only listened to rock and metal back then. I can now appreciate R&B and Country from back then, but I don't get nostalgic from it.

Who are these people

Are we just posting screenshots now?

Trauma Preserving is a nice name for a band.

By that logic, I listen to "third eye blind, semicharmed life".

Just that one song though.

Nope. Once on a while I might listen to it out of nostalgia’s sake. Otherwise it’s churning through a bunch of garbage on spotify trying to find something decent. My other half otoh is constantly listening to our high school year’s music. It’s all the same, it’s the same top songs from the charts from the same top bands, over and over… I can’t handle the repetition.

Does grunge / alternative rock still exist as a genre in any significant way? It never even occurred to me to look if there's still new stuff coming out in that style.

I like to listen to oldies from time to time, when I'm in the mood. However, it's usually just a temporary phase from time to time. Though I find it funny that someone mentioned "Semi-charmed life" in another comment because that song has popped in my head a number of times in the past month or so for no discernible reason at all. Sometimes when that happens it's because I heard a song in a movie or TV show, so that makes sense, but I don't believe that applies to that song.

False. I listened to nothing but classical, but now I listen to almost everything.

Completely wrong.

Pretty sure this isn't true for most people. I don't listen to anything that I did as a teenager anymore. Sure, if I do hear some song from back then it's nostalgic and I do put on a song now and then, mostly at parties when the topic comes up or you know others there would like it but it's very much not part of my daily listening. And I feel the same kind of nostalgia for things I listened to in my 20s that aren't part of my current tastes. But I never put on whole albums or playlists of just bands and songs from then. I'm certain that most of the music I listen to now would have been liked by my teenage self though, just hadn't explored and expanded my taste and knowledge as much.

And I feel people who only listen to stuff from their teens are kinda sad and I feel bad for them, they certainly have some trauma or other issues that make them stick to that and never want to explore both new music and themselves in what they might discover they like.

Add 7 years and I can see it.

This meme was written by a 19 year old

I didn't even start listening to music until I was already an adult.

My daughter listens to music while brushing teeth as a form of pleasant timer. We have been through the entire Weird Al discography (but had to listen to a few of the longer ones when not brushing teeth). Teenage me would approve.

I still have nostalgia for stuff I listened to at 14. But I would say my music tastes solidified more around the age of 25. Fairly broad tastes in music depending on my mood. It's easier to list bands and music I hate than everything I like. I suspect a lot of people are the same.

I listened to exclusively pop radio country, contemporary christian music of the 90s, and classical.

I'll still indulge a little outlaw country now and then, but now it's a wide and eclectic variety of everything from black metal to experimental electronica, from Croatian street musicians to African folk songs, and nearly anything else someone suggests to me. Much of the music I liked as a teen now gets stuck in my head as part of my trauma.

Starve your curious kid of taste and when they're an adult, they may want a bite of everything.

My music taste has expanded and changed quite a bit since I was in HS. Some of the things I liked then still hold up, but I would NOT have liked the things I do now when I was in highschool.

I still have love for 3 Dollar Bill Yall and Life is Peachy. But I don't touch numetal as a genre at all anymore. Once I started to get into Staind and Disturbed or just hearing Nookie.. no thanks. An older friend introduced me to Ska and Punk and I'm so glad he did.

This may be why my sister is into competitive band ‘music’ (I mean the sort schools do, with lots of brass and drums).

I just can’t fathom it. I worked in an instrument shop, and it all sounds like if a van plowed into our stock room to me.

I stumbled upon I checked your cellphone by Otoboke Beaver. Maybe there is some resemblance to I-E-A-I-A-I-O by System of a Down. Maybe the authors in the screenshot peaked musically at 14. I stumble upon new great music all the time.

Some of the music I liked in my teens still sounds great. But definitely not all of it. Most of the music I love now would have been completely unavailable to me in the 70s and 80s. It took streaming music and algorithms to introduce me to the music of West Africa. So many amazing musicians in that part of the world, and I never even knew it existed.