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

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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.)

Late fifties and still love music as much as I did as a teenage punk. Have Radio X on a lot and love the mix of old and new on there. Have introduced my adult kids to the delights of Wet Leg recently.

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In my teens/20's/30's I loved music regularly went to concerts/festivals. As I've got older I've got less interested in music and more into comedy, now we go to comedy clubs instead.

Still as important as ever. Listen to music for most of each day, went to a live gig earlier this week and have two more booked. Thankfully dh is of like mind and similar tastes. The kids just have to put up with it!

I love it just as much as I ever did, but I’m not such a music nerd in my 40s as I was in my teens and twenties. I used to be fanatical about hearing all the new releases, going to gigs etc. Can’t be arsed with all that anymore.

But my love for music is as strong as ever. I start the day listening to classical music on my drive to work. I blare old school hip hop or house music on the drive home to de-stress. I listen to music when I’m cooking - often opera - and I blast 80s pop when I’m cleaning. I listen to music to relax in the bath and I have little sessions with my kids where I get them to play me their latest favourite tracks. We also take turns as a family to choose music to have on for dinner. I can’t imagine not living music!

Music is life ❤️

I feel like music is part of my identity. Couldn’t do without it.

Maybe not feeling quite as dizzy over it as I did as a teenager but I still feel ridiculously indulgent and eternally grateful for the experience. Mid 50’s.

I'm 33 and I listen to britpop constantly. It reminds me of my happy childhood on holiday with my parents.

I'd be lost without music. I always had broad taste from Slayer to John Denver and I'm still a rock and country girl. I can't stand the radio because there's talk. I have horrendous misophonia and music helps at meals times. I am very sensitive to music and have a song of the day or week and play it over and over until I move on to the next obsession. If it's not playing out loud it's playing in my head. I love discovering new country singers and adding favourite songs to my Alexa playlist. My parents thought I'd grow out of rock music. I didn't. I love it as much today as I did then. I just don't use it as a way to communicate my teenage angst.

No not at all. Since having my DS, I went through a period when I didn’t listen to much music, except nursery rhymes of course. Now I listen to music most days on my MP3 player walking home from school on my own, or I usually have Classic FM on most days when I’m cooking or cleaning at home. I adore music and played the violin when I was younger and was raised listening to classical music. My favourite music though is Led Zeppelin, hence my username! I’ll be listening to their music until the day I die.

My DS is now 8 and has been listening to some Beatles songs at school which he’s very enthusiastic about. I’m quite excited to go on a new musical journey with him.

Yes it's so good

Also watching TOPOP 1997 right now

Always loved listening to music, still do. Going to see Alice Cooper for the 4th time later this month and Whitesnake. Also watching TOTOP sitting in bed with a G&T. Gutted i never saw Queen live 😥 I'm in my 60's.

Probably a little less important than when I was an utterly obsessed teenager, but it's still really important to me. Missed live music so much during the lockdown, have been to eight gigs in the last month and have my first festival of the year coming up this month. Most Friday nights (if we're not at a gig) me and DH will have a few drinks, put some records on and dance. We are nearly 50.

I'm mid-50s and it's as important as ever and it's always been a massive part of my life. I listen to 6 music a lot, I buy vinyl, DP and I went to a gig tonight. I'm passionate about music, always have been and always will be.

Definitely less important to me now I’m mid 40’s than late teens / early 20’s. I’ve never been hugely into music and I think I found a few things l liked then, and haven’t paid much attention since. DH is different- he is much keener than me and still pays attention, though I think he’d agree it was more of an important part of his life then than it is now.

interestingly our teenagers couldn’t care less about music. Are people’s teens still interested in the same way? I’m sure some must be but ours aren’t.

Have introduced my adult kids to the delights of Wet Leg recently

Wet Leg is my favourite new band - they're wonderful! (I just want to know what "Is your muffin buttered?" actually means ... )

A different choice of music, some that was important to me in my younger days I hardly ever listen to. Still enjoy live music and indeed one of the things I missed during the pandemic.

Am 48 and went off music about 10 years ago. All I want to do with my down time is watch TV now! Don’t mind it if I am out though obviously but would never listen to it at home.

I’m 51 and still gigging with my 55 yo friend

Alexas/radios in every room. Fortunately i have a job that requires a lot of driving with the radio on. I’m frequently adding to my playlists.

I find music incredibly annoying now. I do wonder if it's something about the Alexa speaker actually as I cannot stand it being on in the house.

I really like music and always have.

Sadly, I'm finding it harder to keep up with new music at the moment. I listened to radio 1 every morning before maternity leave / pandemic and that kept me quite well informed, but when I went back after my maternity leave I found it hard work listening to song after song after song that I didn't know and I've moved to talk radio.

This thread has reminded me to try and get back into it. I don't want to miss out on the experience of finding great new music.

I'm a seondary teacher and my form don't seem that into music. It's shame I think. The consumption of music is more through tiktok clips as well rather than listening to whole albums like we did.

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50s here. When I was in my teens it was important to me; it helped me understand the world, and I really do think it helped changed things - civil rights, the normalisation of gay relationships, statements about the economy and unemployment.

Now I’m much older, I don’t find it important in the same way, but I do still love finding new stuff. I now have teenage children, and they are helping me add to my ever-expanding spotify playlist. I pick up music from adverts, and things I hear on the radio or in shops (SoundHound is a great help in identifying tracks). I don’t go to live gigs as much, though.

Less important to me now I'm in my 40s, in my teens and twenties I never left the house without a way to listen to music and I remember at school having a headphone up my sleeve to sneakily listen to my Walkman in class, at the time I couldn't have imagined music not being an important part of my life. I was always reading about bands, and eagerly awaiting new releases. Now I prefer an audio book when I'm out and about and at home I listen to binaural beat type music when I'm working for background noise.

Massively important to me. During the lockdowns I decided to take a deep dive into 90s music as that was the decade I knew little about. I think I didn’t listen to much of that as it happened.
Now my Spotify playlist is more than just 80s stuff. In the car and through speakers at home if everyone is out.
I listen to Greg James on Radio 1 every morning but not much new music does it for me.
And I can’t think of any bands I could be bothered to go to all the hassle of seeing live any more.