According to research, we stopped meeting new pop songs at 33

If you are over 33 you probably have given up listening to what the "kids" have been hearing lately, right? Or at least that was the conclusion of a survey by a former management consultant who works for Spotify.

The author of the study used data from the music streaming platform and a website called The Echo Nest, which catalogs artist popularity rankings, to determine the average age at which we “stop in time” and fail to know what for many. is a highlight, but to us it seems like a lot of noise.

When we are younger, we are still forming our identities, which makes us hear a little of everything. As we grow older, our tastes become more refined, and very popular styles don't interest us as much. So as we enter our mid-thirties, we either hear our good old baggage again, or look for artists and songs that really sound original.

"Turn that sound down, creature!"

Obviously, the author of such research is not a matter of fact, after all the data used were collected from a service that has existed a few years ago, and was restricted to the audience of only one country. However, if you're close to your thirties, do a little exercise and try to mentally enumerate how many different new bands, artists, or songs you've met in the last two years compared to your teenage years.

There will definitely be those who do not fit the outcome of the study. This number is just an average, meaning some are way beyond or far below that age. Still, stopping to think about it seems like a fairly reasonable approximation. How many times have you not heard your parents complain that what you were hearing when you were young was just noise, but today you can't stand the things that are "modest"?

Another interesting fact pointed out by the research concerns precisely those who have children. These usually stop listening to new songs a little earlier than those without descendants. The reason would be the amount of attention children demand, which reduces the time available for parents to pursue musical novelties.

Apart from that parents usually need to memorize lyrics of various educational children's songs to stimulate the mental and physical development of their offspring. Or maybe it's just people who really love listening to gooey songs that repeat the same thing over and over again.

Hey, we're not judging anyone here.

* Posted on 5/5/2015