{"id":8410,"date":"2017-04-26T12:56:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2017-06-27T13:01:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:01:24","slug":"why-adults-think-new-music-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/26\/why-adults-think-new-music-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Adults Think New Music Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

from aeon<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Now THAT was music<\/h1>\n

One grim day (when youth is over) you find that new music gets on your nerves. But why do our musical tastes freeze over?<\/h2>\n

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Some of us are more susceptible than others, but eventually it happens to us all. You know what I\u2019m talking about: the inability to appreciate new music \u2013 or at least, to appreciate new music the way we once did. There\u2019s a lot of disagreement about why exactly this happens, but virtually none about when. Call it a casualty of your 30s, the first sign of a great decline. Recently turned 40, I\u2019ve seen it happen to me \u2013 and to a pretty significant extent \u2013 but refuse to consider myself defeated until the moment I stop fighting.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been fighting it for more than 10 years now, with varying degrees of vigour and resolve. Sometimes the fight becomes too much \u2013 one tires of the small victories that never break open into anything larger \u2013 and the spirit flags. I continually if not consistently stay abreast of what\u2019s deemed the best of the new \u2013 particularly in rap and rock and R&B (which I stubbornly and unapologetically refer to, like a true devotee of its 1960s incarnation, as \u2018soul\u2019). These ventures into the current and contemporary have reaped dividends so small, they can be recounted \u2013 will be recounted \u2013 with no trouble at all.<\/p>\n

But why should I care? Why should any of us care? Maybe it\u2019s about the fear of becoming what we\u2019ve always loathed: someone reflexively and guiltlessly willing to serve up a load of things-were-better-in-my-day, one of the most facile and benighted of all declarations. If you take pride in regarding yourself as culturally current, always willing to indulge the best of everything wherever it\u2019s found, such taste blockages can be pretty frustrating, even embarrassing. And that hoary old consolation for the erectile dysfunction of the slightly older \u2013 \u2018It happens to everyone\u2019 \u2013 is no consolation at all.<\/p>\n

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