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

@normb +1 on WTMD. I found a lot of new stuff there when I lived in the area. The same with 103.1 before they changed formats. 

I'm not sure how to quantify the question.  Is new music something beyond Jazz, RocknRoll, pop or classical? If I listen to one of the jazz standards from the 50s performed by a more recent artist with there own twist would that be new?    I don't usually like a covers of an established song performed almost note for note from the original but I do enjoy a more modern interpterion of quite a few songs.

I don't enjoy modern pop much as it's pretty much the same from artist to artist so I wouldn't classify that as new but I'm now able do to the invention of streaming listen to music from all over the world.  So "new to me" is more what I chose.  I have over 300 albums that I collected from my youth that while they are still good not what I choose to listen to on a day to day basis.

My assertion looking at the above posts that most of us don't fit that assumption that we still only listen to Boston, Queen or the Who and while they're still enjoyable we've expanded our horizons to include lots of other styles of music that just weren't available to us 40 years ago.  My wife on he other hand who doesn't get stereo at all sings along on a Bluetooth speaker the music she listened to 40 years ago and is perfectly content.

@musicfan2349 

Although it would seem that some of are still enjoying new music there doesn't seem to be any consensus as to who today's best music acts might be.

If you look at the covers of today's bighest music magazines (Mojo, Uncut, Rolling Stone etc) you are still more likely to the likes of Springsteen, Young, U2, Zeppelin, Dylan, Madonna, Hendrix, Beatles etc.

If you read the music section of audio magazines then you are likely to find more interesting articles on reissues of classic albums than any new groundbreaking current release.

As @frankmc195 said earlier, 1980 seemed to be a key year when it came to a slowing down in musical development.

By the end of 1980 we had seen more or less every significant musical genre as well as the murder of John Lennon just after his return to recording.

@musicfan2349 

I don't think any of us are in any serious danger of getting jaded in our tastes. Most of us here seem to be finding plenty of 'new' music to enjoy.

New to us, that is.

Until some current artist (other than Roger Waters, Eric Clapton or Morrissey etc) is willing to stick their head above the parapet and speak up as to what is happening in the world today, then their music can hardly be called current.

Given the enormous social changes we've all been witness to these last 20 years or so I think it's fairly safe to say most of the music produced in that in that time has little more than ephemeral value.

Here today, gone tomorrow.

I think that one  big reason is relating to the artist and or song writer. If someone is 22 years old it is hard for me to relate to their experience- especially when it may be very different from my own personal experiences at that age, which is fast approaching forty  years ago. Today many young artists are  extremely tenanted and their work is highly professional in all ways, but their perspective is not something that I am always willing to pursue.

I do like new music but it is more limited in scope. Plus there are so many genres out there these day, who has  the the  time to  listen to it all?

I simply don’t care for most of the new music. Some yes, but not most. Rather, I go back in time and listen to more and more music from BEFORE the time frame of what I like best. It’s nice to see where "my music" came from.