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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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teaandtoastwithmarmite · 08/05/2022 14:12

I'm 41 and music is very important to me. I've recently joined a choir and took up the drums and find music amazing for mental health.

MrsTaytodarling · 08/05/2022 15:26

Always loved music and took up piano lessons in January. Feel very lucky. Have piano playlists on Spotify all the time in the car. Just love it. I'm 38

Jellycatspyjamas · 08/05/2022 15:35

I’ve always loved music, especially live music. I’ve always used music to help my moods, lift my spirits and can usually find music to express things I don’t have words for.

Went to a gig recently - my first since before lockdown 1 - and it was amazing to share music with others in a big space again. The energy was incredible. The band is one I’ve listened to since my teens, so I was transported back to being 18 rather than the very uncool 50 year old I am now.

I’m cultivating a love of music in my kids too, it’s something I’ve treasured all my life and I’d like that for them too.

NannyGythaOgg · 08/05/2022 15:39

I'm 67 and still listen to music a lot. Radio 2 is on most of the day (except when JV is on). So, although I do get to hear some, the new stuff I hear is generally fairly 'easy listening'.

Although I like some music from the 60s to the present, the newer stuff rarely makes an emotional connection in the way stuff from my younger days did. I think there are 2 reasons for this.

The main reason, I think, it is because there is so much less going on in my life there is less to 'hang' a tune on, whereas music from my younger and more hectic days can easily be linked to what was happening in my life at the time.

The other is that the people writing the songs are at such a different time in their lives to where I am in mine, so again there is less chance for an emotional connection to be made.

DinosApple · 08/05/2022 16:00

I'm touching 40 now.
Music became much less important when I had the DC in my mid 20s. I just needed quiet. Before that I was interested and would go to gigs with DH. But never as into it all as my brother who is now a musician.

My mum said she was similar when she had young children, and she was back listening to loads of music, old and new from when we were teens.

I do absolutely love watching TOTP with my children now though, especially the 90s when I was an equivalent age. It makes me feel young, carefree and happy even though it wasn't necessarily what I was into at the time.

MangyInseam · 08/05/2022 17:20

It's different for me now at 45 than it was.

I never did really like to have a lot of background music, I preferred to sit and listen in a dedicated way, and that is even more the case now. Which means I listen less as I am busier and have more things going on.

I don't see music as a kind of identity focus like I did as a teen, and that means I am probably more open to different things. It can be just fun and enjoyable without being deep, iykwim.

I do still get very emotionally affected by music in certain settings. I was at a memorial service recently and they played the hymn that my grandmother had at her funeral, and it made me cry. In general there are all kinds of associations certain music has for me, and I don't always want to bring them up.

Sirzy · 08/05/2022 17:22

More important to me. I’m late 30s and love watching small local bands or any live music when I can.

InFiveMins · 08/05/2022 17:30

I'm 32 and I love music, have music playing constantly. Currently have the radio on the TV whilst I cook and browse on here. I will say though that I don't listen to much current stuff at all - I listen to 80s, 90s and 00s music most of the time.

Love music as much as I did as a teenager if not more, and feel very grateful every day to have Spotify, kids/teens today don't realise how lucky they are😁

Lightning020 · 08/05/2022 18:16

I am a very musical person. Every weekend when cooking meals I find myself singing along to music that is amongst my comprehensive cd collection.

Lululoveslife · 09/05/2022 08:44

Definitely less important, I like peace and quiet now and hate music on in the house, it’s too noisy, sad I know..

WinterDeWinter · 09/05/2022 11:37

Music was huge for me - actually quite a big part of my identity ("alternative" haha ) but hen the DC were small I craved silence so.. fucking.. desperately. I never really recovered. Now I mainly listen to music when I'm playing something I used to love to the kids, who weirdly are quite into a lot of the same stuff.

Squillerman · 09/05/2022 11:41

I’m 29 and I really dislike most chart music. I’ve always liked Drake, Kanye, The Weeknd and I like post malone and Dave so if I hear anything by any of those I’m ok with it. I feel old saying this but a lot of it sounds the same to me and it’s just noise…

I listen to music when I go running so three times a week and we collectively listen to each other’s music in the car at the weekend. That’s about it really. I wouldn’t think to pop it on during the day at home or anything.

woodhill · 09/05/2022 11:51

I really like it when I'm cooking or exercising

Records that take you back and you know exactly what you were doing at that point in time

Will always be a big part of my life

I also love musical theatre

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