Well, freak me. Apparently, at the exact same moment you hit middle age, you also stop caring about modern music. Or at least, that’s what the music streaming giant Spotify, would have us believe.
According to its carefully analysed data, not only will we stop listening to new music, there will also come a time in our lives when our opinions on such things will become irrelevant.
To which I say this: BULLSHIT.
Earlier this year, The Huffington Post reported that Ajay Kalia, product owner for 'taste profiles' at Spotify, scrutinised the figures and came to the following conclusion:
"Teens tend to listen to whatever is considered popular at the moment. By the time they hit their 20s, though, they are increasingly more interested in exploring the broader music world, hoping to make their own musical discoveries".
He didn't pull listening data from anyone over the age of 50 (because apparently they don't buy or appreciate music), but did offer this:
"Events like having a child - at any age - disrupt one's music-listening habits, mainly because those with children have less time to listen to music."
Less time? Dude, after having a baby, sometimes all we HAVE is time.
Kalia said people start "scratching their heads at the more popular tunes" by the time they reached their mid-30s. Can I be so bold as to hypothesise that this is because by the time they reached 35, they'd recognised that MOST OF IT WAS SHIT?
But maybe he has a valid point. There is most definitely an age when you can no longer tolerate rubbish music. What age that is, exactly, is hard to determine but one thing I think we can all agree on is that if declaring your belief that music was better back in "the day" makes us middle-aged, then SO BE IT.