I tend to listen to music from before i was born, but then again that's the music I listened to in my formative years.

Only most people.

Some of us keep listening to new music throughout our lives

New stuff isn't tied to memories from youth though

Obviously biased data, I'm not in it. >:(

I'm in my 30s and a lot of my favourite music came out recently. My music tastes keep getting weirder and weirder.

When I was a kid I only listened to music from the 80s and prior.

As an adult I started finding other genres of more contemporary stuff that I actually liked, but as a kid my only exposure to "modern music" was the bullshit top 40s pop music radio stations that they would play on the school bus, and I hated that stuff with a burning passion.

Even when there was an occasional song that I found catchy, I felt very conflicted inside and would never admit to liking it...

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

Not just music! (Though that is probably the strongest example)

It's telling how many people are nostalgic for a society that only existed before they were born. Recent History education sucks.

The music industry, such as it is today, is nothing. It was getting super fucked in the 80s, had a last gasp in the 90s and now it’s nothing.

The former pipeline of label to radio to charts is dead. Whats left is a necrotic accounting and marketing mechanism driven by algorithms and viral splashes.

And theres me, who prefers music from before I was born

Bro I smashed the shit out the like button for angine de poitirne, and I don't even think they're human. How do I have nostalgia bias for music that isn't from this dimension?

Statistically, sure, but I’m forty and I keep finding new bangers.

Pop music now is better and more diverse than it ever has been. And I say this as a 45 year old

My favourite music is indeed released when i was in teens. However, i did not listen to that music when i was in teens.

You just gotta know where to look. Music is an industry, so the people who view songs as products will push their favored products in front of as many of their target demographic as possible. They want those tween-to-twenties locked down. They decide what's cool, so if they like your products then you're cool. So if you're 40 and only listen to top 40 pop stations, you're probably in for a bad time since none of that shit is really trying to court you in the first place. I'm in my mid-late 30s and I'm still discovering bands and current releases that I'm into. Just gotta look a little harder.

I think that as we get older and consume more media, we experience a sort of fatigue of simple and easy structures, so we desire something more complex. But we grandfather in the stuff that we imprinted on in those formative years, and that's why that younger demographic is targeted; they'll keep coming back to their comfort media for their whole life.

Pop music is (usually) the middle ground between nursery rhymes and something like djent or cool jazz or math rock or whatever other more nuanced genre you're into. "Products" in those genres just aren't gonna sell like boy bands do. Some pop music is actually good and complex, but it's just not my thing and mostly never has been. I'm not trying to insult people who like Bad Bunny or Kendrick or whatever, but yeah Black Eyed Peas and Kid Rock fucking suck. Don't @ me.

I don't listen to music much, but I feel like this graph would be nearly inverted for me. Didn't care much for the music I was forced to hear on the school bus, but inherited my mom's enjoyment of both oldies and classical, and enjoy some modern music (which is just much more diverse than when I grew up, so there's something for everyone)

most of the music i listen is from before i was born 😕

I never listen to old music, nothing from my teen 90s especially. I've heard those three million times each. Give me some new artists producing shimmering, sparkly electronic-indie and I am happy to keep eating it up. Other genres too but there's so much in just this one, it's immersive, and I absolutely think it keeps my brain sharper.

Well... Guess I peaked. https://listenbrainz.org/user/RustyNova/stats/?range=all_time#music-by-year

TBF there was a switch in the dubstep sphere and a lot of brostep artist (which I love) moved to riddim (which I hate). As well as my biggest source of song (Monstercat) switching styles

Post your finds so that this graph may die

Rat Heart outta Manchester has been my repeat lately. Whole album Dancin' In The Streets is great if you're after something down tempo and not super up beat. Flute haters need not apply

This is anti-art. If the sonic shape of the music doesnt matter and kids just imprint on what was popular in their youths why not scrap every art program? Why not cut all funding, why not just let Ai make all the music. Why bother dong anything at all?

I wonder if there is any noticeable difference between different generations to this graph. Like if there is a specific time-frame, that if we account for nostalgia and calculate out this bias/distribute different generations evenly performs higher than other time frames

Because human brains are finally fully developed by your late 30’s.