What is popular interests me less as I get older.

I agree with what you said, but there's still a lot of good music and artist out there nowadays. Not sure which genre of music you're into it, I'm a huge country music fans, and I think Rascal Flatts, Lady Antebellun and Sugarland are all awesome group, I will recommend you to listen to their songs. :)

I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm 20, but I have found in the past couple years, I have been so much less interested in the popular new music. I turned the radio onto a top 40 station the other day, and didn't know what 80% of the songs or who the artists were. I used to be so well-informed about pop culture and music. Instead I've just been more into independant/underground or older music.

I'm only 24 and already feel like this is becoming true. However, I think it's more that the sort of music being made these days is often so unoriginal and just plain manufactured. It may have a catchy tune, but will I remember it in 5 years? It's unfortunate that this is occurring, and it's not only in the music world that it's going on, either. Seems like movies these days are becoming awfully predictable...

I pointed out to a colleague about how our parents hated the music we liked as teenagers. Most likely our grandparents complained about their music as teenagers, as did our great grandparents before them. Even worse are the one who insist on sharing their lack of taste with the world. I tried earphones, and the quality of the sound is a lot better the usual m3 or other device speakers, but no, they just have to make us suffer, especially if it is the violent racist stuff. Then there is the technology that allows anybody to record a song and put it on the internet. I remember waiting for a movie to start, and they had some horrid sounding out of tune rambling that I left the auditorium until they started playing the previews.

i know what you mean. when you are older you like what you like and thats about it. i used to listen to top 40 stations with my kids but not that much any more.

As a musically addicted person, I cannot stop appreciating new music. I do not see myself ever being less optimistic about a new generation's music. Because as a child I have already heard a lot of my older relatives question new music which led me to question my own taste and view of it at a very early age, the patterns and what not in which I often hear that things aren't as good as they used to be. For example, a dad who listened to 60s and 70s music would probably say the same thing about your 80s and 90s taste. Maybe its the adolescent memories for most people, but for me they are more. They are pieces of art and poetry that falls down through a constant stream that I hope will never dry up. I keep an open mind when it comes to this meaning I try to look at it objectively, no eras, no genres, no bands even. This way I can judge the piece of song solely by the merit of its beauty without being clouded by other facts that are irrelevant anyway (at least to me).

Yes, I do have the affinity and preference to songs and music of my student days. That was the time when we have plenty of time to listen to music and get addicted to. Yet, in any case, I like listening to classical music, then and now, Chopin, Brahms, Beethoven, Johan Strauss. I listen to them every evening after I get back home from my work. That's my way of relaxation.

Yes i truly agree with you. What music interested me before doesn't do me any good now. Same goes with food,clothes and more. I wish i could stay constant and be stable but i can't be so...