It’s interesting, music is weird that way. Painting or comics or architecture or wine enthusiasts aren’t shocked by the idea that not everybody cares to develop those tastes. Music fans acts like it’s against nature to not care about music. Like a mental illness.
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This is very unexpected coming from the person who wrote "Tempo", but I'm glad life can be funny like that sometimes.
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Tempo is a more basic feature of reality than music

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I think framing it as “taste” is a good culprit for the source of this lack of interest. I can pretty much only get interested in music that conveys negative social taste points.
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So still taste.
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Same. With public Spotify playlists music is being used as a finely woven identity matrix and I'm absolutely clueless.
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Yeah I gave up after digitizing my CDs. Haven’t bought music in any format since maybe 2002.
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Today, on Lowe's, a very medicore song from my high school years was playing. I enjoyed the experience of knowing the song, and also knowing that it wasn't very good. I have already completely forgotten what the song was. I am content with this mediocrity.
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That’s our tribe, high five
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I’ve seen this pattern with other people. Their musical tastes get established by age 25. Which is interesting as the human brain takes approximately 25 years to mature.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621648/ …
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It makes me wonder if continuing to develop musical taste or even learning to play musical instruments as an adult could improve neuroplasticity as an adulthttps://www.intechopen.com/books/neuroplasticity-insights-of-neural-reorganization/music-and-brain-plasticity-how-sounds-trigger-neurogenerative-adaptations …
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