For older listeners, how do you manage with the fact that music doesn't stimulate you the same way it did when you were younger? I'm 30+ and almost all kind of music doesn't tingle me a single sensation. Only the most abstract, unpredictable and actual innovative music do something for me at this point.
Have you tried not being a pretentious faggot? When i got older, that helped.
>>130106415Yes I tried, the problem still remained.
Have you tried microtototal? It’s a game changer
>>130106187I just go back to what resonated with me. There are times when some music doesn't tickle me like it used to so I put it down for awhile before revisiting it to see what still resonates. Sometimes, time has shown its flaws and my initial attachment withers. Then, there's music that hits all sorts of feelings with me so I grow attached to that. Some tunes inspire frisson all over me whereas others put butterflies in my stomach. Go for whatever inspires feelings in you.
>>130106187I'm 34. Our music taste changes. At a certain point it's all executed under a certain formula and you want something more.verse, chorus, verse, bridge, chorus formulaic chord progressions. typical bmp, typical time signaturesThis is my case.Been big into Jazz recently and enjoying more non-formulaic music.
>>130106187Youre just desensitised by the weight of the worldYou could try and ease that numbness somehow and youll appreciate music more again
>>130106925Examples?
>>130106187THAT IS AN INDEX OF SOPHISTICATION OF TASTE; NOTHING TO COPE ABOUT.THOSE WHO SWALLOW ANYTHING, TASTE NOTHING.
>>130106187*hits crackpipe*problem solved
>>130107019What jazz are you listening to?
>>130106187Sorry, never had that problem. Just turned 40 and I'm still excited to find new stuff, which I do often, and get chills from great music.
I'm 30 and music is pretty much as good as ever (besides as good as when I was on stimulants often but thats not a fair comparison), helps being a musician and finding new albums every month (downloading like 20 the other day wayyyy too many)
I stopped caring about new things when I turned 31 (back in 2020), but the band Geese has seriously revitalized my enjoyment of music.
>>130106187>For older listeners, how do you manage with the fact that music doesn't stimulate you the same way it did when you were younger? It still does for me. I'm 33 and if I find something new and I really love it, I still get those strong feels. Same with music I already know and love, the mood at the time can make a massive difference.I still find a new album or two each month that I enjoy, but it's a real slow down from my earlier days. Though it's also likely because I use /mu/ less and less with every passing year compared to when I was still online daily in the early 10s.>>130107019Same, I started exploring a lot of different and experimental genres in my late 20s.
>>130106187I just dig constantly. That's way its always been.
>>130106187I push myself, I barely discover music anymore, just mu recc threads, spotify and RYM. I'm too busy for the hobby,, but occasionally I find something I like
>>130106187I don't have that problem, it's just you
>>130115803Is RYM actually good for finding reccs?
I just listen to edm nowMy wife just listens to whatever pop tiktok musicWe used to be so cool
>>130106187I'm 35 and yes, music doesnt quite hit the same way like it used to. The same way I, at 20 wasnt excited by the high gain chuggah-chuggah guitars on some nu-metal song like when I was 13.Anything done to excess will eventually lose it's novelty, but I have a few thoughts around it since I've gone through the same thing myself.We're surrounded by music 24/7. It's practically unavoidable in todays society, it's very hard to escape music for it to regain it's freshness. And if you've been an avid music listener for some 20 years, it's hard to find new music that hits as hard as discovering a completely new sound, band or genre when you were 15 and everything was unexplored territory. You're also getting older, with that comes hearing loss. It's a unavoidable part of aging. My hearing doesnt have the same high end zizzle it used to. I dont think I can hear shit above 17khz anymore, maybe even less.Thirdly. With age, you lose the exploration of identity aspect of music. The same way you used to experiment with clothes or whatever you felt defined your identity when you were younger. Once you cross the threshold into "maturity", your personality lose alot of it's malleability and flexibility. In one way you're probably more comfortable with who you are than you ever have been, but with that comes the loss of opportunity and consequently your ability to dream of other things, openess to new things and you become more rigid in your ways. You're less defined by the things, people and art you surround yourself with and more by a inner sense of self. And with that you lose an emotional attachment with music you once had because you no longer need it.I still enjoy music, I still go to concerts, I still get chills and a piece of music can still move me to tears, but still, doesnt quite hit the same spot it used to.But then, jerking off isnt nearly as exciting as it was when I was 12 either. Theres diminishing returns to everything in life I guess.
>>130119836Its not bad for trying a new album a week. Honestly my music efforts are so minimal these days. Listening to a lot more pop, mainly out of laziness.
>>130121545>mainly out of lazinessInteresting. As there are reports that the population is getting more lazy, more dependent on tech and AI, and less active, pop music keeps making bigger strides, even in places like /mu/.
>>130121619I mean its more because of my work load as a white collar professional. When I was peak /mu/ in the 00's and early 2010's I was in high school and uni, working maybe 35 hours a week. Now I work like 10 hours a day and if I listen to music its to unwind
>>130121619NTA but I like pop music or anything else with a moderate beat for driving places, but I'd rarely listen to it when I'm just sitting around at home. It's just good stuff if you don't want to concentrate on it much and just want to enjoy it for the simplicity.>>130123096Pretty much me. I was doing 14 hours days for a little while at a marketing company and I'd pass out at home after work listening to ambient noise albums. Which also reminds me, Gas - Zauberberg was really good for unwinding late at night.
October 2020 is when music just didn't hit me anymore in terms of discovering "new" acts
The pandemic really killed my passion for music. I used to love promoting newer releases and up and comers but 2020 just made me feel like I was wasting my time. I feel for all of them
When I'm at work I just wanna hear some instrumentals.
>>130123352>>130123378It's weird but that felt like the drop off for me too. I figured it was just because the pandemic meant not many albums were coming out anymore or something but I've struggled to find anything truly interesting albums released since 2020.
>>130123393Where and how do you typically find your music?
>>130123393Eddie Van Halen dying was just the epitome of 2020 for me personally. The year just told me that I'm getting old
>>130106187>pickino
>>130123393>>130123430Coupled with that is NOTHING remotely rock related cracks the Pop Billboard Hot 100 charts. Nothing. It's just Country, Rap, and Female Pop.
>>130123409Usually I found it here. My next step was exploring guest musicians on albums I liked, so a path could look likeJapan>David Sylvian's first solo album>Jon Hassell, Mark Isham and Ryuichi SakamotoI found that exploring who worked on an album with an artist I liked to mean they might have similar tastes and musical interests.
>>130123460It used to REALLY mean something when an album ranked high on the charts. Like Quiet Riot. Megadeth's new album debut at #1 and while that's awesome...it's not much of a significant impact
>>130123478The fanbase that's not in their prime anymore doesn't help either. Rolling Stones and other big name bands sell out stadiums but their latest release does hardly anything on the charts. 50K seat stadium yet maybe 5K will buy the latest album or stream the latest song
I remember an artist playing a song on late night television and that used to make or break it
>>130123522>The fanbase that's not in their prime anymore doesn't help either. The bands just aren't in their prime either. It always feels weird to me to see a really old artists whose peak has long passed still out and trying to promote albums, or when they try something truly worse like making a "sequel" album to their biggest album decades later like Joe Jackon's Night and Day II or Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell II and III.
>>130123540Playing SNL REALLY meant something.
>>130123560I really try to not be that guy but if there's ZERO original members....fuck it. Foreigner and Lynyrd Skynyrd shouldn't tour anymore. I guess you could make an exception for Johnny Van Zant but even then
>>130123540It completely broke Jessica Simpson's career kek. There was no recovery from that.
>>130123575I think that's fair to say. Brian Wilson was touring as The Beach Boys back when I saw him but it was just him and Al Jardine at that point.
>>130123576Ashlee What did it was she threw her band under the bus. Doing the silly hoedown and Pieces Of Me didn't hurt but saying MY BAND PLAYED THE WRONG SONG was a bad look. Made her look like the epitome of an industry plant
>>130123591Fuck, yeah, Ashley. My bad.>What did it was she threw her band under the bus.Yeah that was a massive fuck up and I still don't understand why she did that, all she had to do was be honest and there was a full ad break of thinking time to decide what to say. Kinda sucks since the instrumentals the band played were pretty good imo.
>>130123586I gave Guns N Roses a chance when it was Axl as the only original. THAT'S fine. But if AC/DC ever tries to continue when Angus dies I just couldn't be on board with it
>>130123599I liked how she poked fun at it later by then saying JUST KIDDING GUYS but the damage had already been done. Her performance at the Orange Bowl the following January officially buried her career
>>130123600I looked up some active bands with no OG members and it's insane to see what names are still touring and recording to this day. There's a lot more 50s and 60s groups than I'd of expected, like goddamn just let the band name die already.
>>130123636Like The Platters
>>130123646Yeah that shit is just weird. I even saw some article about Brian Wilson thinking he was meeting the Four Freshman backstage in the 90s but not a single one was an original member by then.
>>130106187That's like too much masturbation. Only the weirdest kinks turn you on now.
>>130123651Otis is the only original member of The Temptations. God Bless him for still doing it but who would honestly see them in concert whenever he dies? Going to see The Temptations RIGHT NOW feels odd
I'm 32 and think I "enjoy" music at the same level I always had. But there's one big difference, the sense of meaning I derive from it. I can't generate that same level of listening to a song and feeling it take over my entire being and describe the emotional state I'm in like it did when I was 16-early 20s. I don't know if that state actually requires a level of immaturity or what, but I just can't reach it anymore. Maybe it also is to do with as you age you mellow out so you're not constantly experiencing such extreme levels of existential angst. There was a point where like going on nightwalks and listening to music was by far the most important and meaningful thing in my life. Maybe life experience and just becoming more jaded has to do with it as well. idk
>>130123680Same with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (only one season left now). I really REALLY think Frankie shouldn't be touring anymore, I'm not sure he's even aware of where he is.
>>130123698Man that hurts to watch. Physically he looks great except in his face. He looks too scared to even think about retiring
>>130123698Bro looks like an animatronic, this is some Five Nights at Frankie's shit.
>>130106187I have very specific and frankly gay songs that make me cry and I am over 30. If you want to try these go ahead: To Zanarkand FF10, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSjTN8WSGNk&list=RDPSjTN8WSGNk&start_radio=1 Anakins Betrayal, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2p-im7cxa4&list=RDm2p-im7cxa4&start_radio=1I got on this weird kick where I saw this scene and now the Twin Suns suite makes me cry.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLwzzSS1bCkIn my head there is a perfect version of The Last Jedi and it is so good and impactful that it makes people cry every time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb2zuegwcwkMy idea for this scene would be to do Luke Mourns Han and he feels his memories through The Force and his death, it would be a montage of him and Han Solo then show Luke at the academy training Kylo and then failing with Kylo his academy in flames and then Han being killed by Kylo. Luke would get up and his face is pale and all wet. Rey says "Train me, I am not afraid". because Star Wars rhymes Luke would say "You will be... You.Will.Be."anyway I typed all that out because it explains why you should feel something so nerdy and dumb can touch a person enough to cry, gets into the right mindset.Rites of Passage Survivor Cook Islands version it makes me think of all me and my family has done together.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLcADRcTC_ALocke'd Out Again when Locke drives his car after his kidney gets conned from him and he hits his steering wheel, then he cries out at The Hatch then the light shines its one of the best TV scenes ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyGAhJ971NoA great example of ascending chords to provide emotion by Giacchino, also try Pixar's Up https://youtu.be/ViqL8qKcHcw?si=8UuB4Qk_cg0Ey8JW&t=81https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rn-vMbFglIThese things often get to me but lots of other things have worked too.
>>130123758wut
>>130123778He's a schizo that also posts on /tv/.
>>130123378>>130123393>xhey got vaxxed and cant enjoy life anymoreMany such cases!
>>130123792I didn't get the vaxx, chud. Music has just sucked ass since 2020.
>>130123800>I didn't getThat makes you a chud, chud
>>130106187just smoke a blunt or drink some beers. then play some tunes at the garage. it'll be fine.
>>130123758I forgot one there is this song that usually gets to me from the Half Blood Prince deleted scenehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9By0u8CoV0Also The Mission that has to be up in the most emotional pieces of music everhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7w-IeNR9koor the chanting parthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gonKhSIBP54I like Malena too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-YD2Y8ojYE
>>130123792Trump doesn't care about you
>>130123860-t-trump..Mindbroken.
>>130123883Name one Democrat against vaccines you teabilly
>>130123698this is tragic
>>130107046I DON'T WANNAFEEL THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD
>>130106187I'm 30 and I discover a 10/10 album roughly once a year. Used to be much more often, but I blame it on me having covered all the low hanging fruit already.
