Why do we stop listening to new music as we get older?

Here's the great thing about streaming not only do I discover new music I also discover old music cause if I haven't heard it then it's new to me!

As our system does get better so do we get better in exploring more musical horizons. That could translate in rediscovering what we already thought we knew well, discover that we get interested also to different genres of music or even search more from decades gone. So in a way lots of new music there.

On the other hand if you don’t listen to certain hour zones on FM, works for me as i am not into streaming, or go out visiting the record stores, for searching, asking, then you are getting slower. Tip always socialize with younger people.

Because obtuse folks refuse to open up their musical horizons. They miss so much.

@newbee +1

Who is this "we?"

That said, sometimes it takes a while for the wheat to be separated from the chaffe, to see what stands up over time instead of being an unsubstantial "fizzle"... so the efficient thing is to give it a few years and see what’s still around.

It’s kind of like movies or TV shows or books for that matter... you can try to "keep up" with every new release, or you can wait a while and then use your time more efficiently to delve into the ones whose quality rises above.

Some people like being endlessly "up to date" and try to follow every fad. Others, like myself, don’t really care about up to date and allow the sands of time to erode off the weak structures. There’s too much quality stuff that I haven’t explored, even some hundreds of years old, to waste time on the haystack of new junk continually being marketed. I’ll wait for a few years anyway for the wind to blow away the lightweight hay and for the needles or nails to be left grounded for easier pickings.

Ah, I get it.  This was a trick question.  The answer is “death”.