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Is music less important to you now you're older?

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Time40 · 07/05/2022 19:28

I love music. It was important to me when I was young, and it has remained very important. The love of music seems to tail off for many people ... how important is it to you now? (Full disclosure - I'm ancient, and I follow the charts. I always have a favourite current song.)

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Duchess379 · 07/05/2022 20:16

I'm 46 and love listening to music. My iPod has just died (I used it in my car) and I was totally gutted! 😆

Reluctantadult · 07/05/2022 20:16

I'm listening to more music again now that the kids are that little bit older, 7 & 4. They've both got really different tastes and I love that. My 4yo discovered Nirvana this week and I feel like I've succeeded in life.

Stripyhoglets1 · 07/05/2022 20:19

Yes. I'm 52 and having children made me appreciate silence more than filling silence.
I still enjoy music but no longer need to fill silence so listen to it a lot less.

CrowFriend · 07/05/2022 20:19

I’ve always loved music and had eclectic taste.
As I’ve got older ( late 50’s now) although I still enjoy the rawness of some relatively recent contemporary music ( Eminem Kanya AC/DC ) I now really enjoy the emotional resonance with some of the classics. Theme of Schindler’s List, Elrod etc - I’m no expert but I know when I hear something I like.
so I guess I just remain open to enjoying new stuff. ‘New to me’ rather than just the latest music.
anything that moves you is good.

woodhill · 07/05/2022 20:23

I love the BBC sounds app and love music from all decades

ElvisWife · 07/05/2022 20:26

I'm 58 and listen to music all the time, as you can see from my username I'm an Elvis fan but my other current favourite is Gerry Cinnamon!

I can't imagine ever not wanting to listen to music

Crikeyalmighty · 07/05/2022 20:27

I work in it- so it's bloody important to me!!

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 07/05/2022 20:28

@woodhill it is brilliant app. I love being able to rewind and the fact that it lists the full details of the playlist. Makes it easier for me to find it on iTunes. It’s a digital enabler😊

LuaDipa · 07/05/2022 20:29

Up until recently, I would have said that I still love music as much as I used to when I was younger. But my teenage daughter has just got really into music in a big way. She’s constantly playing music in her room or the car, discovering new songs and styles (new to her but sometimes artists or songs that dh and I used to love), she talks about it constantly and she’s so curious and open to anything. Exactly how I used to be when music meant the world to me. I do still love music, I enjoy listening to it but I’ve realised that don’t have the passion for it that I used to and that’s made me a bit sad. Hopefully dd’s might rub off on me a bit.

WhatWouldHarveyDo · 07/05/2022 20:31

I’m 40 and still love music. Before I had kids, I travelled to different countries to see my favourite couple of bands, I don’t do that as often now but we have a friend in the music industry so often get tickets/access to concerts through them. I listen to music most days, I can’t imagine a time when I don’t.

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Time40 · 07/05/2022 20:31

@AllThingsServeTheBeam

Awww sorry! You're not "told" at all. I'm just very ancient, and someone as young as you seems like such a spring chicken!

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DeathMetalMum · 07/05/2022 20:33

I often go to my Dad's in his late 60's and the music is on loud he is always listening to something. My mum before she passed away also always had music on and kept in touch with the charts always. Adele, avicii and James Arthur are some of the more 'current' artists she listened to.

DeathMetalMum · 07/05/2022 20:34

I'm early 30's and still love music, I hope it doesn't change.

Babdoc · 07/05/2022 20:36

I’ve always liked music. I’m in my 60s now, and still go to gigs by tribute bands from my era, plus opera and classical concerts. I don’t like rap or jazz, but almost every other genre is fine by me. Live music from my youth, when DH was still alive, can reduce me to tears, but I still love hearing it.

MistyFuckingQuigley · 07/05/2022 20:39

I'm 46 and much prefer to listen to podcasts or audio books. I've never really been that bothered about music though. Live gigs really aren't my thing. I used to keep upto speed with the top 40 in my youth but honestly hardly ever actively listen to music anymore. It's more of a background thing for me. It's nice to have music on in the background when I'm in a pub or something but otherwise I really don't care.🤷‍♀️

MistyFuckingQuigley · 07/05/2022 20:40

Actually thinking about it I don't mind 90s music, takes me back to my youth 😄

37GoingUnder · 07/05/2022 20:42

I still love music, I have the radio or Spotify on almost constantly, I still love going to gigs when I can. I’m conscious I don’t listen to as much new stuff as I probably should, I need to listen to more 6 Music and less Radio X but I just love an early noughties guitar banger and I’ve never moved on much, bring on the Indi sleaze!

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Time40 · 07/05/2022 20:43

@blackheartsgirl I'm sorry for your loss

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BertieBotts · 07/05/2022 20:46

I love music although I'm a spring chicken according to OP Grin

i can't see that ever going away for me. It's such a big thing in my life. I miss it terribly if I got some reason go some time without music.

MarshaBradyo · 07/05/2022 20:49

No way still hugely important, maybe more so as I rely on it daily when wfh

I remember it being important to my parents when younger too - although more likely Mozart, Neil Diamond and Dolly Parton

my Ds questions some of my taste - the loud rage stuff but we like some of the same stuff

BertieBotts · 07/05/2022 20:49

I'm not bothered by what's on the charts though, just listen to what I like. But I quite like listening to the radio so I get some exposure to new songs, artists etc otherwise I get a bit stuck in a rut.

I was just thinking today actually that although I love the fact I can listen to pretty much anything with Spotify, I really miss the experience of a record store, looking through the CDs in the sections I liked, picking up something from a band or artist I already knew, or just something that looked cool. I don't have any way to play CDs now so that wouldn't work for me any more but I don't really have a good way to recreate it. I sometimes try to do it on Spotify but it's not the same.

bettbburg · 07/05/2022 20:51

No, more so.

SoManyTshirts · 07/05/2022 20:51

63, don’t listen to recorded music much - stopped many years ago following a bereavement, when I didn’t want the random surges of emotion involved.

Love live music and go to gigs about once a week, when I can!

MarshaBradyo · 07/05/2022 20:51

I listen to R6, listening now, and you get loads of new stuff

I’m pretty sure my age group is a big demographic for them (40s)

PermanentTemporary · 07/05/2022 20:53

I'm 53. Still important but in a really different way.

As a teenager my relationship with music was a direct emotional one, because it could induce intense changes in my mental state. Also had huge crushes on musicians so that was all mixed in too. I also loved singing, church and classical music.

That faded over my 20s and 30s, I still enjoyed music and listened a lot but wasn't so passionate. But then every time I had a big emotional life event, I would be open to new music again. After bereavement 4 years ago I became completely obsessed with a few bands for a couple of years. That's gently fading again now. I'd still probably have Spotify as my desert island luxury though.