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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: indie, nu-metal and big beat/electrohouse/idm, which wasn’t exactly leaving me to starve for stuff to listen to)
I didn’t listen to much music for the better part of a decade, mostly because I wasn’t driving, then it occurred to me one day that I could start streaming it during a lot of the stuff I do. Probably doubled how much music knowledge I had in two years.
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.
If you’re into lo-fi maybe check out Nujabes, Japanese legend that is sometimes dubbed as the father of the genre even though it’s decidedly different from the typical modern lo-fi style.
not op but thank u! i love this <3
14 year old me listened to a lot of heavy metal variations along with emo rock and that kind of jazz. I still occasionally enjoy some of that, but my music taste has developed and matured, so now I mostly listen to girly pop music.
The metal head to swifty pipeline
not me, that stuff takes me back to dark times. I have zero nostalgia. I stuff my face with fresh bubblegum pop instead. Sophie Hunter, Ashnikko, Hayley Kiyoko, FLETCHER, Olivia Rodriguez, Flavia that’s good shit
100%
Elliott smith and bright eyes? Great music but miss me with that shit. I’m done with mopey days of dwelling in sadness and misery.
Charli xcx and jpop? Hell yeah. The world is terrible but I can at least have fun when I listen to music
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 agree. Now that I’m old, my tastes are finally starting to gel, but I’m still always looking for great new musical experiences. I’ve gravitated to LOTS of great music, and even entire new genres, that became a regular part of my listening long past 14.
I started playing the guitar again during the pandemic, after stopping for decades. Now I’ve become a good enough player, that most of the time, I’d rather just listen to my own self-played solo guitar music. That definitely wouldn’t have been on my radar in my teens.
Same here, i still have a backlog of music in my genre i have yet to fully explore, but i also do go back to old favourites for that nostalgia hit.
Maybe because most people stop discovering new music because they’re occupied with other stuff like jobs or having kids. And not because this music is deeply imprinted or such.
I’m still listening to SOME of what I like when I was a teeny, but 95% have shifted. Every decade I have a new favourite style. Went through rap, new age, opera, classical, heavy metal and currently black metal.
What a boring life that would be, damn.
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.
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.
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.
Completely wrong.
Would you like to talk about your new trauma?
I fell in the monstercat rabbit hole as a kid.
Then branched out into melodic electronic, synthwave, drum & bass, classical electro, french techno, french rap, classical piano, Ghibli lofi, Zelda nostalgia, and a myriad other genres as an adult.
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.
Lol nah
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.
A lot of people are happy enough inside their comfort zone, they’re likely to die there. The people that say they stopped making good music since the XX’s probably haven’t spent much time searching for music they’d like.
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.
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.
I still have all my old music from high school. I very occasionally go back and listen to it but not really.
I’ve found myself looking up music that came out when I was a teenager that I didn’t really listen to. I do not care about present day pop music. I didn’t really then, either. My tastes have often been unstuck in time, in high school I got into Bon Jovi but not Bounce or Have A Nice Day, I went out and bought a copy of Slippery When Wet. The album they released while I was a zygote.
I don’t listen to the radio, not the broadcast bands anyway, I’m not really exposed to a lot of new music, and I’ve kind of stopped caring.
I’m the same. I never really cared for pop music and really focus on older Jazz, cultural/folk/world, and classical music.
Sometimes I can get a moment of nostalgia hearing music from high school, but I wasn’t so much into it at the time and I am also not convinced that all of us has aged well.
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.
Lol, I started with rap and classic and am now a metalhead in my 50s 😁
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.
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, 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
Spinnin’ Records Nuclear Blast Records CloudKid Fueled By Ramen Metropolis Records XKitoMusic MrMoMMusic MonstercatUncaged
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.
Who are these people
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.
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.
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.
Trauma Preserving is a nice name for a band.
But he said “persevering.”
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… It’s boring AF.
False. I listened to nothing but classical, but now I listen to almost everything.
Have you heard of Disembodied Tyrant? This song, Winter, is a mix of Vivaldi and Deathcore. Symphonic Deathcore, if you will.
I had not heard of them, but I’m just listening to The Poetic Edda album right now, and it’s delicious. This is yet another style of music I would definitely hated when I was younger lol.
Not the same thing but the latest bit of new classical that I’m into is the album Butterfly Lightning Shakes the Earth by India Gailey.
PS. Still listening and OMG the drums on this album. 🥵
This meme was written by a 19 year old
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.
It does, and almost feels like there’s a resurgence of it to me. But maybe I’m just seeing it for the first time. Went to a show with Stand Atlantic, Magnolia Park, and The Home Team and they nail that alt rock vibe pretty well while still adding modern touches. And I found that just looking at local shows at moderately sized venues near me.
I saw Magnolia Park a couple months ago, one of the coolest shows I’ve ever been to
Those are the oldies now.
By that logic, I listen to “third eye blind, semicharmed life”.
Just that one song though.
Just make sure you don’t do a little crystal meth. It’ll lift you up until you break.
For unknown reasons, this song has been a brain worm for me for like the past month or so. I cannot explain why. Like sometimes oldies will play in a show or movie I watched, so it makes sense why I’m suddenly thinking about it. But this one? I think it just popped up on its own. And now to see it in a random comment on Lemmy — WILD.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’ll never understand this. I’m 40 and I’m still actively seeking out new music and listen to vastly most 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…
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
They’re just nostalgic.
Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Same. When I was a teen, I heard that your music tastes settle by the time you’re 27. I thought, “Well, I’m not letting that happen to me!”. I decided to learn to at least appreciate, if not enjoy, every genre of music i encountered. 25 years later and I’m still discovering and enjoying new music almost every day.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Love to hear it. No plans to slow down on my side either 🤘✌
Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So by the time you were 27, you settled on at least appreciating, if not enjoying, every genre of music you encounter and discovering and enjoying new music almost every day. They were right!
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I like 90s grunge/alternative, modern 80s style synth music and rave music. Anything to recommend? You sound like a music buff
Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Sure, if you don’t mind some random top of mind recommendations.
For 90s alt/grunge fans, I definitely recommend the latest album by Scowl, ‘Are We All Angels’:
open.spotify.com/album/0zDdwRsOg2sVvOFpjEOtHs
rateyourmusic.com/release/…/are-we-all-angels/
80s synth is pretty broad, so let me give you two fairly different recommendations and see where you land with them. First off, I’m gonna reach back a little bit to 2020 to recommend ‘Monsters’ by The Midnight, a great album by a great band:
open.spotify.com/album/1WKMbxcldmwnXaCIGgEpUW
rateyourmusic.com/release/album/…/monsters/
But if you’re talking the more kind of pop-influenced, singer/songwriter side of 80s synth, I’m actually gonna recommend a really small release to you, ‘It Ain’t Too Late For One More Ride’ by indie musician Calvero:
open.spotify.com/album/6i5MYveOM35x8twOhfpYim
rateyourmusic.com/…/it-aint-too-late-for-one-more…
I do consider myself a bit of a music buff and I listen to an incredibly broad range of genres and styles, but I will confess that rave music isn’t one of my specialties. But a couple quick recommendations that might fall in the same rough proximity:
First off I dig the chillout beach party vibes of some of the tracks by artist “elsaaa” on Spotify, mostly the songs on the top of her popular section:
open.spotify.com/artist/0l9ymNLUakebec39MWLAuE
I also like a bit of ARMNHMR, but they’re not super new so if you’re into EDM/rave music you may already know them:
open.spotify.com/artist/0P2bZXPyjHYRW4guHVAFl1
If you just want some fun dance music that’s very modern, and you have any openness to metal, may I recommend a few tracks by the very excellent and very fun Electric Callboy, with the caveat that this is not rave music and may potential be a stretch for you:
Electric Callboy - Everytime We Touch (TEKKNO Version):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuBXeF5acqE
Electric Callboy - PUMP IT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnzkhQsmSag
Electric Callboy - WE GOT THE MOVES:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NdGBldg3w
Again, these are just quick top of mind recommendations, so if they don’t hit for you or you want more recommendations, let me know and I can think on it a bit longer. But if you do check any of it out, feel free to let me know what you think!