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While I still like most of the music I did at age 14, I continue to find new music I like. I don’t discard much. If I liked it at one point I usually still like it.

I listen to 100x more varied/different music than I used to listen to.

but I also listen to what I used to listen to.

It ain’t me, sis/bro. I might occasionally find a song to loop for a while, but in general I hate when things play on repeat. Always searching for something new.

Heres some YouTube channels to find music on

Strange Music Inc
Epitaph Records
Spinnin’ Records
Nuclear Blast Records
CloudKid
Fueled By Ramen
Metropolis Records
XKitoMusic
MrMoMMusic
MonstercatUncaged
Rock Montage

and if you don’t have a YT Alternative who can play all uploads then here’s an extension for it by Catbraaain, but you do have to navigate to the uploads tab to see it.

This take is for people that primarily listen to pop music (of any genre, pop rock, pop punk. Stuff that is on the radio). Which is a huge amount of people. But it is unsurprising that on a niche community-based website like Lemmy, where a lot of people probably have an artistic tinge to them, that a bunch of you have a much more involved and active music discovery experience.

When I was 14, “Zombie”, by the Cranberries, was the music of the year.

I still go back occasionally but there’s a lot more to listen. And I’ve discovered other genres since then.

Who are these people

Are we just posting screenshots now?

1. I think it depends on the year. In my 14th year, there were relatively few bangers. There were a lot more ballads back then, and they’ve aged poorly.

2. I predate digital music, I listened to the radio, but only had so many tapes, so I didn’t get to hear what I wanted all the time. What I did get to hear where those ballads over and over.

3. I only listened to rock and metal back then. I can now appreciate R&B and Country from back then, but I don’t get nostalgic from it.

14 year old me listened to a lot of heavy metal variations along with emo rock and that kind of jazz. Now, as a 34 year old man, I still occasionally enjoy some of that, but my music taste has developed and matured, so now I mostly listen to girly pop music.

I’ll never understand this. I’m 40 and I’m still actively seeking out new music and listen to vastly more new releases than anything 5+ years old.

Of course I understand everyone has “their thing” and music happens to be my thing, so I understand the additional interest in my case, but the alternative just seems so damn boring to me…

Lol nah

I listen to way more than when I was a teenager now. Probably not a genre out there now without something I appreciate in it.

I wasn’t gonna listen to music that everyone around me said was rubbish, so I just stuck to the genres of my friend groups (first half of the 00s: so mostly indie, nu-metal and big beat/electrohouse/idm, which wasn’t exactly leaving me to starve for stuff to listen to)

Nope. What I listened to at 14 is whatever was in the radio on the car, usually oldies. Which I never really cared for. I didn’t care about or start developing my own musical tastes until my 20s.

This may be why my sister is into competitive band ‘music’ (I mean the sort schools do, with lots of brass and drums).

I just can’t fathom it. I worked in an instrument shop, and it all sounds like if a van plowed into our stock room to me.

Some of the music I liked in my teens still sounds great. But definitely not all of it. Most of the music I love now would have been completely unavailable to me in the 70s and 80s. It took streaming music and algorithms to introduce me to the music of West Africa. So many amazing musicians in that part of the world, and I never even knew it existed.