While I still like most of the music I did at age 14, I continue to find new music I like. I don’t discard much. If I liked it at one point I usually still like it.

I listen to 100x more varied/different music than I used to listen to.

but I also listen to what I used to listen to.

Lol nah

When I was 14, “Zombie”, by the Cranberries, was the music of the year.

I still go back occasionally but there’s a lot more to listen. And I’ve discovered other genres since then.

It ain’t me, sis/bro. I might occasionally find a song to loop for a while, but in general I hate when things play on repeat. Always searching for something new.

Heres some YouTube channels to find music on

Strange Music Inc
Epitaph Records
Spinnin’ Records
Nuclear Blast Records
CloudKid
Fueled By Ramen
Metropolis Records
XKitoMusic
MrMoMMusic
MonstercatUncaged
Rock Montage

and if you don’t have a YT Alternative who can play all uploads then here’s an extension for it by Catbraaain, but you do have to navigate to the uploads tab to see it.

A lot of people are happy enough inside their comfort zone, they’re likely to die there. The people that say they haven’t made good music since the XX’s probably haven’t spent much time searching for music they’d like.

Who are these people

Are we just posting screenshots now?

1. I think it depends on the year. In my 14th year, there were relatively few bangers. There were a lot more ballads back then, and they’ve aged poorly.

2. I predate digital music, I listened to the radio, but only had so many tapes, so I didn’t get to hear what I wanted all the time. What I did get to hear where those ballads over and over.

3. I only listened to rock and metal back then. I can now appreciate R&B and Country from back then, but I don’t get nostalgic from it.

Nope. Once on a while I might listen to it out of nostalgia’s sake. Otherwise it’s churning through a bunch of garbage on spotify trying to find something decent. My other half otoh is constantly listening to our high school year’s music. It’s all the same, it’s the same top songs from the charts from the same top bands, over and over… I can’t handle the repetition.

False. I listened to nothing but classical, but now I listen to almost everything.

This may be why my sister is into competitive band ‘music’ (I mean the sort schools do, with lots of brass and drums).

I just can’t fathom it. I worked in an instrument shop, and it all sounds like if a van plowed into our stock room to me.

My daughter listens to music while brushing teeth as a form of pleasant timer. We have been through the entire Weird Al discography (but had to listen to a few of the longer ones when not brushing teeth). Teenage me would approve.

This take is for people that primarily listen to pop music (of any genre, pop rock, pop punk. Stuff that is on the radio). Which is a huge amount of people. But it is unsurprising that on a niche community-based website like Lemmy, where a lot of people probably have an artistic tinge to them, that a bunch of you have a much more involved and active music discovery experience.

I listened to exclusively pop radio country, contemporary christian music of the 90s, and classical.

I’ll still indulge a little outlaw country now and then, but now it’s a wide and eclectic variety of everything from black metal to experimental electronica, from Croatian street musicians to African folk songs, and nearly anything else someone suggests to me. Much of the music I liked as a teen now gets stuck in my head as part of my trauma.

Starve your curious kid of taste and when they’re an adult, they may want a bite of everything.

Nope. What I listened to at 14 is whatever was in the radio on the car, usually oldies. Which I never really cared for. I didn’t care about or start developing my own musical tastes until my 20s.