I would say that every generation before you has said the same thing. I'm sure there are reviews from the generation before you lamenting how terrible your favorite artists are and how the younger generation doesn't know good music.
I am definitely younger than you but am reaching the age where it seems like people give up on new music and decided a few years back I never wanted to say anything like your comment in my life. There's so much new music out there that at worst it will become a discovery problem in old age.
My strategies so far are first to always have an open mind to any popular artists I am hearing for the first time and to not completely write them off if they remain popular. Adele isn't for me but there's no way to say she's objectively bad. On the other hand constant recommendations for Black pink opened me up to KPop.
I also have become ok with not being among the first fans of someone and also being ok with people having different taste. Seems like there are a lot of people who make music their personality, look down on people who like new or different styles that they have decided are inferior, and then when their preferred genre or style stops being popular they just give up. If someone is really passionate about something different it's usually worth giving it an objective shot. I take all recommendations from friends and especially younger people seriously.
I also am lucky that a lot of the music I like works really well in DJ sets. I grew up listening to rap, which always allowed me to hear various artists. I'm glad I grew up in the mid Atlantic and never had the false pressure to say one region made better rap, and was able to appreciate songs with intricate wordplay as well as songs that are just meant to be bangers where the words are just there to help the song flow.
In college it was an easy transition to genres like Baltimore club and its variants. At the time I thought they would replace rap instead of rap evolving and Jersey club being incorporated into the larger EDM scene. That transition opened me up to the massive number of DJs making some kind of electronic music of all kinds of various types.
No clue where my journey will take me, but I know there's no feeling like hearing new music that you just really like. Just today, got to experience that feeling watching an ISOxo set.
I plan to be on that journey for the rest of my life.
I enjoy new stuff, even cheesy Autotuned pop, but I'm less likely to actively hunt for new things. Maybe priorities change. I do hunt around other genres a bit more, such as classical and eastern.
I am definitely younger than you but am reaching the age where it seems like people give up on new music and decided a few years back I never wanted to say anything like your comment in my life. There's so much new music out there that at worst it will become a discovery problem in old age.
My strategies so far are first to always have an open mind to any popular artists I am hearing for the first time and to not completely write them off if they remain popular. Adele isn't for me but there's no way to say she's objectively bad. On the other hand constant recommendations for Black pink opened me up to KPop.
I also have become ok with not being among the first fans of someone and also being ok with people having different taste. Seems like there are a lot of people who make music their personality, look down on people who like new or different styles that they have decided are inferior, and then when their preferred genre or style stops being popular they just give up. If someone is really passionate about something different it's usually worth giving it an objective shot. I take all recommendations from friends and especially younger people seriously.
I also am lucky that a lot of the music I like works really well in DJ sets. I grew up listening to rap, which always allowed me to hear various artists. I'm glad I grew up in the mid Atlantic and never had the false pressure to say one region made better rap, and was able to appreciate songs with intricate wordplay as well as songs that are just meant to be bangers where the words are just there to help the song flow.
In college it was an easy transition to genres like Baltimore club and its variants. At the time I thought they would replace rap instead of rap evolving and Jersey club being incorporated into the larger EDM scene. That transition opened me up to the massive number of DJs making some kind of electronic music of all kinds of various types.
No clue where my journey will take me, but I know there's no feeling like hearing new music that you just really like. Just today, got to experience that feeling watching an ISOxo set.
I plan to be on that journey for the rest of my life.