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PaperclipPerfector  2d ago (text post)   1254 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 15, 2024

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It's commonly believed that music tastes crystallize around age 13-18. Whatever music you listened to then determines what you'll like for the rest of your life. "Not old" can mean a lot of things, but unless you were born after around 2005 your experience tracks with my own and many others.

Side note: I still have that teenager somewhere in me who wants to act too cool for anything made by a pop artist, but Anti-Hero (both original and its variants) is one I can't help but find genuinely enjoyable.

Pendulum is encapsulates two genres of music from the 2000s, rock and drum n bass. I first heard them at age 13 in 2013, I'm glad they still make music, though like all bands that reunite, they do seem past it.

Its early 2010s in a capsule, I'm glad they are still together. I do wish to listen to real deal classical music. Mozart, Bach, some Hindustani classical stuff too. I had this cringe notion f wanting to appear higher status and never danced or listened to music or learnt to play any instruments despite my parents begging me to. I wish I listened to them instead now.

I remember how sudden that change was. When I was a college student, music was one of the key parts of your identity: you could always talk about that new album you had discovered, genres you listened to defined who you were friends with, etc.

Then I graduated and got a job and on my first ever lunch break asked my colleagues what they listened to. The silence that followed was polite, but deafening. It was suddenly such a nonsensical question. Who cares what people listen to? Do they even have time to really listen to music?

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