I've always wondered at what age people stop liking current hits.  I loved the music of the 2000s, from boy bands to snap rap to Lady Gaga.  I just can't get into Katy Perry and Jesse J however and their style of music, which completely dominates the airwaves.  Thats probably how the previous generation felt about the music I liked.  The one exception is Adele.  I really like her.  Other than that, if I listen to current music it is mostly urban music.  There is a lot of good hip-hop out right now its just no longer Top 40 like it was a few years ago.

I've always wondered at what age people stop liking current hits.


Was around my mid-20s.  Thing that killed it for me was having a day job that wasn't just a day job, but a career.  After switching from the comparatively idle schedule of college to 8 hours a day plus commuting to/from work, I had nothing left at the end of the day but to turn off the brain with old familiar mixtapes, and no dorm full of friends to drag me out to parties where current music was being played.

I skipped grunge and spiraled down the techno thing.  People 10-20 years older than me skipped rock and wound up in disco (or skipped disco and wound up in metal), people 10-20 years younger skipped glam rap and wound up in electro, or skipped electro and wound up in rap/crunk.  Today, people are making up their minds whether or not dubstep is music.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I've always wondered at what age people stop liking current hits.  I loved the music of the 2000s, from boy bands to snap rap to Lady Gaga.  I just can't get into Katy Perry and Jesse J however and their style of music, which completely dominates the airwaves.  Thats probably how the previous generation felt about the music I liked.  The one exception is Adele.  I really like her.  Other than that, if I listen to current music it is mostly urban music.  There is a lot of good hip-hop out right now its just no longer Top 40 like it was a few years ago.


I do like some current hits once in a while just not crazy about it, When I grew up I always listened to WCBS-FM which played a lot of doowop 70's and 80's music and that's what type I listened to.

I've always wondered at what age people stop liking current hits.  I loved the music of the 2000s, from boy bands to snap rap to Lady Gaga.  I just can't get into Katy Perry and Jesse J however and their style of music, which completely dominates the airwaves.  Thats probably how the previous generation felt about the music I liked.  The one exception is Adele.  I really like her.  Other than that, if I listen to current music it is mostly urban music.  There is a lot of good hip-hop out right now its just no longer Top 40 like it was a few years ago.

Well, it depends on the person of course... but I don't think people stop liking music at a certain time, we just get selective about it. :)

For me it was about 17 in 1999. That might sound crazy, but I started listening to music when I was about 3. I was around it my whole life, so despite still being a HS kid, I was already attached to what I grew up with and didn't adapt as well when styles changed.

The last time I was into LOTS of current songs is when I was 13 in 1994-95. The next few years had enough classics that I still dug it, but I was even then beginning to not follow it as much. In '99 I feel like it took a sharp turn towards alot of music that wasn't my cup of tea... tweenpop like early Britney & Ricky Martin, or rappers like Eminem and Limp Bizkit.

On the flip side though, I prefer today's music to the music of my teens/early twenties, because its a bit catchier, more electropop and influenced by the 80s (what I was raised on).

In '99 I feel like it took a sharp turn towards alot of music that wasn't my cup of tea... tweenpop like early Britney & Ricky Martin, or rappers like Eminem and Limp Bizkit.

On the flip side though, I prefer today's music to the music of my teens/early twenties, because its a bit catchier, more electropop and influenced by the 80s (what I was raised on).


haha we're quite the opposite, I don't really listen to music until 2008 (I'm a late music bloomer I was 14) which is the beginining of the electro pop and when the scene/emo music faded away... But it's also the beginning of my appreciation of classics aas I rediscover the songs I incidentally listen on the radio/watched on MTV as a young kid, as early as 3-4 years old in the late 1990s :p

I Love anything of late 1990s - early 00s except the super saturated or cheesy boyband/girlband like westlife or spice girls (no offence). IMO the best cultural period so far on our history. However i appreciate some of today's music despite the saturation of electronic influence to almost every genre is making me sick of music in general i do enjoy some pretty catchy stuff but only with their own distinct flavour kind of songs. I don't like today's kelly clarkson, bruno mars, or pop artists in general for today

I'm ok with LMFAO, i enjoy it but don't listen to them

these includes

Rihanna - Who's that chick, what's my name (ft drake), only girl(in the world)
Maroon 5 - Moves like Jagger (this one grows on me)
Eminem - not afraid, space bound
Britney Spears - I wanna go
Katy Perry - Last friday night (love the saxophone), teenage dream
Willow smith - whip my hair
Kesha - Blow, Your love is my drug, tik tok, we r who we r
BLINK 182!!
OWL CITY
Lady Gaga - monster, dance in the dark, edge of glory (love the saxophone)
Gym Class heroes ft adam levine - my heart stereo (this one grows on me)
Gorillaz
Coldplay - up in flames, paradise, up with the birds
Adele - set fire to the rain (this one grows on me)

the rest of my itunes are either (mostly early - mid) 00s, (big bulk of) 90s, 80s, 70s, and 60s.... I love classics... but not the 1950s :p

I've always wondered at what age people stop liking current hits. 


Well I'm in my 40s and it hasn't happened yet

Am I the only person who wonders about the term "Old School?" I have been seeing that a lot lately around the board. "Old School People this" "Old School People that." I'm really not too sure what exactly means and I wonder if I should take offense to it. I am not the oldest person on this board (I think I am married to him) but I am in the oldest group (the Baby Boomers). As for what music one likes has absolutely nothing to do with age. It has to do with taste.


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Am I the only person who wonders about the term "Old School?" I have been seeing that a lot lately around the board. "Old School People this" "Old School People that." I'm really not too sure what exactly means and I wonder if I should take offense to it. I am not the oldest person on this board (I think I am married to him) but I am in the oldest group (the Baby Boomers). As for what music one likes has absolutely nothing to do with age. It has to do with taste.


It's from a Run-DMC song back around 1985, they used it as a put down to other rappers as not being "current"

In context however I mostly see it used as a synonym for retro or "classic"


I've always wondered at what age people stop liking current hits.

right around when I got out of college in 1995.  The end of grunge basically.  It's not a hard "I like nothing current," it's more like a huge drop in the number of songs that I do like.  The last ten years are especially light on stuff I care for, even by groups I liked in the 90s. 

Part of the decline is due to less free time to listen to new music, but more of it is due to the changing trends.  Hip hop became huge in the 90s and I dislike all of it from about 1993 onwards. Dance music became VERY repetitious, rock acts copied each other too often, etc. 

I'm trying though, I've got a couple sets of rock from the 2000s and I've been listening to a few dozen tracks each day to see if I can find stuff I like in it.  I'm averaging maybe one song per 100 new songs listened to and that's in a genre I know I like. 

Well I'm in my 40s and it hasn't happened yet


There is no age when they should stop listening to current hits.

Am I the only person who wonders about the term "Old School?" I have been seeing that a lot lately around the board. "Old School People this" "Old School People that." I'm really not too sure what exactly means and I wonder if I should take offense to it. I am not the oldest person on this board (I think I am married to him) but I am in the oldest group (the Baby Boomers). As for what music one likes has absolutely nothing to do with age. It has to do with taste.


Take no offense.  Chucky covered it. 

The first time I encoutnered the term was in Nervous Norvus and his 1956 novelty record Ape Call, in which he sang "A pterodactyl was a flyin' fool / just a breeze-flappin' daddy of the old school", and if you look at the comparable line in every other verse, it was a compliment to the sort-of-a-stork-lookin' bat with sharp teeth that cruised around lookin' for...

Where was I?

Oh yeah.  Back before I became old-school, "old school" meant "hip-hop that preceded gangsta rap", and it was also used as a term of respect.

...so the meaning hasn't changed a bit, has it, cats?

I'm so-called "Adult" and so-called "Old School," and here are three new songs I love:

ARCADE FIRE: READY TO START
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oI27uSzxNQ

BLACK DICE: PIGS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebLYgVPDORM

COLD CAVE: CONFETTI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=686K_X9C5qU

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I think music has gotten better since the 00s, by 2011 I noticed a difference.

Look at the songs I like right now:

"We Are Young", fun. Featuring Janelle Monae
"Stronger", Kelly Clarkson
"Glad You Came," The Wanted
"Set Fire To The Rain," Adele
"Somebody That I Used To Know", Gotye Featuring Kimbra
"Part of Me", Katy Perry
"Drive By", Train
"Young Wild Free", Snoop Dog and Wiz Khalifa Featuring Bruno Mars
"Domino", Jessie J


All good songs.  The other night, my friend and I were singing "We are Young" at the top of our lungs on our way out for the evening.