New Music?
An article published by Uncut magazine suggests that people cease to take an active interest in new music once they hit their mid-thirties. I certainly know people whose musical taste has frozen: they only listen to music from the sixties, or the seventies, or the eighties or perhaps the nineties. Typically the era in question coincides with the years when they were in their teens or twenties. The Uncut article is a summary of research into the listening habits of US Spotify users published in an article titled ‘ “Music was better back then”: When do westop keeping up with popular music? ’ . Putting to one side the source and coverage of the data used, for me the premise is a flawed one. My approach to music is more aligned to that of John Peel who said: “People do find it curious that a chap of my age likes the things that I like but I do feel that it's one of those situations where everyone's out of step except our John, because in every other area of human activi