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When Do We Stop Finding New Music? - A Statistical Analysis (www.statsignificant.com)
submitted 7 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/humanities@beehaw.org
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Open-earedness refers to an individual's desire and ability to listen and consider different sounds and musical styling. Research has shown that adolescents exhibit higher levels of open-earedness, with a greater willingness to explore and appreciate diverse musical genres. During these years of sonic exploration, music gets wrapped up in the emotion and identity formation of youth; as a result, the songs of our childhood prove wildly influential over our lifelong music tastes.

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[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 23 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Weird, I feel like the older I get the more diverse my musical tastes have become.

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

On the one hand I have a similar experience. More then ever I love searching for artists with a sound that surprises me and that is engrossing.

On the other hand the top comment of every YouTube video of a popular artist from the past is "there has been no good music since [decades ago]".

[–] ringwraithfish@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago

They should modify the saying "The only things that are guaranteed are death and taxes" to add "and older generations saying their music was the best"

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