Whistle to the tune while you not-work

[dolphins_log]

On my way into not-work in Rollingbay I heard some new music announced from a band called Snow Patrol. It was interesting. I asked the Batista in the drive through if she had heard of them. She had both their albums, but expressed surprise that I had heard of them [they were playing on the radio as we spoke]. I made some comment about boomers liking all sorts of music.

Her comment?

"I wish my parents were older. They only like Nirvana and stuff like that."

Oh god. Gramps and the grand-kids have the same music tastes.

Comments

[miko2.livejournal.com]

There was a piece on NPR last week about how as people get older they get less adventurous, and that includes not listening to new music. Oldies stations figure the target audience of a musician by determining when they were most popular and subtracting 20 years, and that's when the target audience was born. This is because most people are more adventurous musically when they're in high school or college, and after that they generally grow less adventurous, until most are content to listen to what they liked when they were in their teens and early twenties.

So I figure if you're still making new musical discoveries then you're helping stave off old age in at least one way. ^_^

The NPR story was funny. The professor who did the research for it was annoyed by the young kid that was working in his office -- annoyed by the music he played. Not by the kind of music in particular, but by the fact that he played something completely different every single day. And when he realized that this bugged him, and that he himself was content to listen to the same single Bob Marley cd every day, he started researching why people are like that.

[kehf.livejournal.com]

I've never been adventurous with music. If it weren't for my friends all I would be listening to would be opera.