What Happens To Our Musical Taste As We Age?

An anonymous reader writes: New research from Spotify and Echo Nest reveals that people start off listening to chart-topping pop music and branch off into all kinds of territory in their teens and early 20s, before their musical tastes start to calcify and become more rigid by their mid-30s. "Men, it turns out, give up popular music much more quickly than women. Men and women have similar musical listening tendencies through their teens, but men start shunning mainstream artists much sooner than women and to a greater degree."

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Re:Allowing your mind to close.

[Anonymous Coward]

Twenty plus years later and you're weighed down with a mortgage, several kids, a shit job, and an impending divorce.

I'm sorry your life turned out so shitty, I really am, but it's not the case for everybody. I've got a mortgage, but I'm not weighed down by it. I've got kids, but not an impending divorce. And my job is quite interesting. Perhaps this is why I'm still listening to and enjoying new music.

With the greatest of respect, it seriously sounds like you need to short your shit out.