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Yeah I'm more open minded now than I was when I was younger. All my taste seems to stem from the same roots (for example I like a wide variety of electronic music but the common thread is sounds and/or harmonies rooted in funk/soul/jazz/blues) but when I was a teenager I was only interested in rap music.
Any recommendations?
or more electro funk with a gangster twist? vincent antone is superb
There's a lot of comforting analysis here on social and cultural development reasons why that might be, but the likely ugly truth is the same faced by creatives in some other areas - a clear cognitive decline, it's just too universal within those fields to be anything else than a physical cause.
With very rare exceptions old people don't make good pop music, there's no reason to expect listeners to not mirror the decline.
I went to a gig last night and saw a great band I found a few months ago with two other new (to me) bands and came home with a head full of tunes, strengthened friendships, and a CD from the merch stand.
It's just part of my life and I give it some time each day. :)
I joined a metal discord last year (though my favorite album of the year so far is actually chamber folk / Americana from a recommendation there):
* general recommendations
* seeing what other people listen to
* "themed history months" (Screamarch for Screamo, Finlapril for Finnish metal etc.),
* sampling of any new release that seems slightly interesting (usually about 20 releases per week that I spend a few seconds to minutes with to gauge my enjoyment)
All those expose me to a constant stream of new and old music that I usually never even heard of before.
But then, not using streaming services probably makes me a statistical outlier anyway.
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> Look at Hollywood now too: everything is a sequel, prequel, remake, reboot, or adaptation. There’s hardly anything original anymore. Vs: > This may surprise some, but since 2000, just over half of all movies released have been original screenplays. https://stephenfollows.com/are-movies-becoming-more-derivati... The problem is they aren't blockbusters, so you don't remember them. From the same link: > While the numb…
I wonder who's producing those movies though. My comment did specify Hollywood. The indie film scene, most of which consists of original screenplays, is very active, and now it's easier than ever both to shoot a film—on a smartphone!—and to distribute a film—over the internet. (Likewise, it's easier than ever to record and distribute a music album.) However, those films aren't getting mass marketed, getting seen by t…
One problem I've run into with the music services is with older styles. For example, I'm specifically into black musicians from the 1930s-1950s who played swing style music. I have yet to find a service that actually will play more than 2-3 songs in that style before deciding that what I really want to hear is rat pack or swing by white musicians. No matter how much I thumbs down it, I get Glenn Miller/Frank Sinatra/…
I encounter similar behaviour as you in an entirely different genre - I've long since suspected that Spotify keeps redirecting me back to songs that are either less royalties for them to play, or located closer to me on the CDN to save serving costs.
https://artistpush.me/collections/spotify-promotion
No idea if they work though.
Artists can also pay Spotify to promote their music:
https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/promoting-mus...
I imagine that boosts “organic” engagement, leading to the same symptoms.
I love finding new stuff (IDLES, Shame, and High Vis are recent faves) and finding old stuff that's new to me (I flew across the country to see The Cult playing in LA as their old band name -- Death Cult -- and never knew there was a live album version of Dreamtime that's terrific from back in the day).
I think I just sacrificed my ability to enjoy new video games instead.
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> Look at Hollywood now too: everything is a sequel, prequel, remake, reboot, or adaptation. There’s hardly anything original anymore. Vs: > This may surprise some, but since 2000, just over half of all movies released have been original screenplays. https://stephenfollows.com/are-movies-becoming-more-derivati... The problem is they aren't blockbusters, so you don't remember them. From the same link: > While the numb…
I wonder who's producing those movies though. My comment did specify Hollywood. The indie film scene, most of which consists of original screenplays, is very active, and now it's easier than ever both to shoot a film—on a smartphone!—and to distribute a film—over the internet. (Likewise, it's easier than ever to record and distribute a music album.) However, those films aren't getting mass marketed, getting seen by t…
https://stephenfollows.com/how-original-are-hollywood-movies...
> 39% of top movies released 2005-14 were truly original, i.e. not an adaptation, sequel, spin-off, remake, or other such derivative work.
I don't know, I watch most of my movies at home (I have a nice setup) and watch as many old movies as new. I never feel like I have any trouble finding an original film. The blockbusters may soak up all the ticket sales, but there's just no shortage of original films to me.
I actually bought a nice stereo system with bose 901 speakers to set up in my house, but it's still sitting in storage 9 years later.