Yeah, CMJ and their CDs introduced me to quite a bit of new music in the late 90s/early 00s. I also have access to one of the better community radio stations that has a wide variety of programs playing different genres, KDHX.org
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It’s hard to tell but I’m not sure this contradicts what I’m trying to say. It seems to be focusing on peoples favorite music. While my point is talking about the breadth of music people enjoy as a whole. Your favorite music can stay the same while the amount of music you enjoy can expand.
To be fair though my judgement on this is based only on my personal experience so I guess it would be more honest to say among the people I know most of their musical tastes tend to expand with age.
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The conversation I have with my 30 something daughter all the time is.
What about the staying power or longevity of the new music?
All of my favorites from the 70s and 80s are old but still live for preforming.
Heck, even Deborah Harry and Blondie can still put on a show. Cheap Trick keeps right on going. Eddie Money and Meat Loaf were still preforming right up till they dropped.
I won’t be around but I wonder what Adele or Taylor Swift will be doing in their 70s and 80s.
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Statistics on play frequency show that there is less new music being listened to and older music is going through a huge revival. Young people are listening as much to CCR and The Eagles as they are to Tame Impala and Billie Eilish
So, as it turns out, Rick Beato is more in touch than you are.
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Don’t tell ME who not to try to browbeat!
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Lots of great discussion here, but the topic just reminded me of this version:
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Every
thing everybody elselistens tois shit.
FIFY.
(/s, kinda… 
)
Change stations, man, it’ll do you good.
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There are frequent viral breakouts of older songs coming from TikTok as well - Pixies Where is my mind and Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams being two huge recent examples - which drives additional interest in those artists catalogs, which are completely available in an instant. This really changes the way the younger people learn about music. Before Spotify you still had to seek out and acquire (even if it was filesharing) music. Now you can just get it.
And if you listen to some Fleetwood Mac you are going to get suggested similar stuff some too. Sampling and mashup also lead people to discover new stuff.
Overall I think this leads to young people having more catholic tastes than one might otherwise expect
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Let me spin the dial - “This is Radio Clash…”
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I think it’s more that certain Catholics have a taste for young people.
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Small “c” Catholic!
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Well, now it’s not funny.
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A lot of that is just survivorship bias. Most of the music produced in any era is unremarkable but time tends to filter out the mediocre.
So if you’re listening to a station playing new and emerging artists then most of them will be forgotten a decade from now, but if you’re listening to a classic rock station they’ll only be playing the hits that had enough staying power to hang around for at least a generation or two.
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Whatever they want! They are both incredibly talented songwriters and performers.
Of course, they might have the good sense to do their best work and then go away and enjoy themselves, which would be fine too! (Looking at you, Paul McCartney)
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They are talented but in my opinion it’s their marketing skills that got them the cash and the star power.
There are plenty of people that have the voice and talent that go to their grave broke.
I’m always reminded of the Johnny Bravo Brady Bunch episode where Greg got the contact because the jumpsuit fit him.
Look at the people that paved the way for the performers of today that make millions. Many of them died poor.
Same thing goes for actors, athletes, and CEOs for that matter.
I’m not saying they don’t have talent but our society is out of whack with who we elevate to god like super stardom.
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FWIW, I thought Mr B’s Frampton was very palatable. Mi-T-tasty.
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That is true of any band that you have ever heard on the radio (except it is usually the labels marketing talent). I used to work in radio in the 80s, there has never been anything organic or “just about talent”. The people that grew up listening to the people that are huge today will continue to love them going forward and will still be fans in 40 years, just like you are of the bands that you grew up with. This is how it has always been, and always will be. This is why we have to suffer approx 20 year music nostalgia cycles. Think about the amount of 50s nostalgia you had to live through in the 70s.
For me what is weird is being in King Soopers and hearing Love will Tear Us Apart over the speakers
Right now Taylor Swift is re-recording her existing albums and releasing so that she owns the masters - these “Taylor’s versions” are also smash hits. She will be fine
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No, no… see, men write songs that are works of art, while women make boring, forgetable pop songs… That’s why not a single woman is working in the music industry past 25… /s
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Oh silly! Women can’t possibly be writing their own songs! Not like Damon Albarn! (To reference another recent thread…) /S
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