Wie der Musikgeschmack mit dem Alter weiterentwickelt: Jugendliche Verfolgungsstrends, junge Erwachsene erforschen weit verbreitet und ältere Zuhörer beschränken ihren Fokus auf persönliche Favoriten, die von früheren Erfahrungen und Nostalgie geprägt sind
https://www.gu.se/en/news/we-get-less-favourite-songs-as-we-age
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> The international study from University of Gothenburg, Jönköping University and University of Primorska, shows that younger users listen to a wide range of contemporary popular music and follow trends in popular culture. In the transition from adolescence to adulthood, music habits broaden – more artists and genres are explored, and listening becomes increasingly varied. With age, this spectrum narrows, while music choices become more personal and influenced by previous experiences.
> The researchers used data from the music service Last.fm, where users share music listening habits from platforms such as Spotify. This makes it possible to build a personal music profile and gain overview of one’s own music listening. Since Last.fm users can enter their age when they register, it was possible to link listening habits to age. The study is based on data spanning 15 years and covering more than 40,000 users. The data contained over 542 million plays of more than 1 million different songs.
>It turns out that music listening continues to change throughout life. In middle age and beyond, nostalgia becomes a strong driving force; the music from one’s youth accompanies one as a ‘soundtrack of our lives.’ Among older listeners, the patterns are twofold; they continue to engage with new music, but at the same time repeatedly return to songs from their youth.
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>Musical taste also becomes more unique the older the listener is. Teenagers can find many favourite songs in common with their peers. This becomes more difficult with age. Your neighbour listens to death metal all the time, while you are obsessed with Genesis or reggae.
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>“Most 65-year-olds don’t embark on a musical exploration journey,” says Alan Said.
[Soundtracks of Our Lives: How Age Influences Musical Preferences | Adjunct Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3708319.3733673)
I enjoy finding new artists that exist in orbit around a sound that I like. Nostalgia is cool but honestly hearing the same stuff a thousand times is kind of depressing, actually.
Im 47, and since the age of about 40, it’s like my musical blinders fell off. I gave up all my past judgements about styles or bands and I opened up to EVERYTHING I could hear. I discovered Japanese Jazz fusion, and my love for the heaviest most brutal metal grew and grew. There’s very little music I CANT get into now, and I love this version of me.
Not me, Im 61 and have been jammimg to Knee Cap and Young Blood! To keep sharp as U age u have to keep finding new art that inspires you…..
Remember, this is aggregate. Useful when looking at large groups. Anyone can like whatever music they want – not weird to deviate from this as a teen or older person
I read somewhere that by age 28, we’re 95% likely to not try new music. By age 35, if we haven’t tried certain foods, we’re 95% more likely not going to try it
Nostalgia is boring. Being surprised by something new is what my ears look forward to.
Thirty years old. When I was younger, I tended to listen to a kind of eclectic mix of genres, almost all older stuff, combined with both older and newer soundtracks; nowadays, I keep an eye on new soundtrack releases that I think might interest me.
I still *have* all my older favorites on my phone, though. Every time I give some thought to removing songs because I know I don’t really listen to them anymore, I think, „Yeah, but what if I want to for some reason?“. And then one of them comes on when the phone’s on shuffle, and I proceed to skip the song.
This is based on data from Last.fm which is a massive filtering factor. I wouldn’t take it too seriously.
I, 69, do my best not to do this. I’ve got things I listen to from every decade since the 60’s. But not usually pop chart music. My fav. release in the last month, is from Ukrainian band Dakhabrakha – 9 Nedilechok. Check it out..
Guess I’m weird because even in my old age I’m curious about new music.