discussion Have you lost interest in exploring new music?

[superben]

Kind of. For mainstream/pop artists, it's easy to get into, but otherwise, I find less and less encouraged to discover ind/alt/lesser-known artists.

[Bosque]

No I listen to new music (including older artists I wasn’t familiar with) all the time. I feel like I’ve never listened to more new artists than I do today. It’s so easy to just start a Spotify radio and add songs that I like to my playlists.
 

Back in the day I would have had to go through the trouble of downloading new music so I always just stuck to my existing library. 

Edited November 21, 2023 by Dephira

[Bosque]

2 hours ago, Lana Banana said:

Not really. My bf and I create monthly playlists that include only the songs we've discovered that month of the year with a possibility to add something we have forgotten about and underplayed. Spotify's suggested track algorithm is pretty great, ngl.

 

 

Maybe that’s the secret, because I use Spotify discovery algorithms all the time and I can’t relate to the other responses in this thread at all

[PMKARDASHIAN]

Perhaps I’m not as interested in exploring music that’s coming out now or within the last couple years, but I’m very much open to music that’s new to me but was released 5-10 years ago that I missed due to stanning Gaga and other MPGs. 
 

My music taste have drastically changed and I’m currently obsessed with synthwave and vaporwave artists and artists who somewhat fall under that umbrella, and I’m noticing that a lot of the albums I’m enjoy currently were released in 2018 or earlier. 
 

Todays musical landscape is not something I personally enjoy outside of a few artists and outside of rina, I haven’t gotten into any newer artists 

[gatito]

nope, im perched for new releases every week

[Dialamba]

I have never listened too many m artists but I was trying to discover artists now I only listen to my favs artists the fact i haven’t listened to 2022/23 mainstream albums…

and it’s sometimes it’s a chore to listen a full project. 

[Gladiator]

No, every Friday I go through all the new albums released and skim through some songs from the ones that capture my attention. If I like what I hear, I add to a playlist and go through the entire album and either never visit it again or I add it to a revisit playlist that I go back to to listen to. I tend to predominantly listen to music released that year. Love discovering new music.

Edited November 21, 2023 by Gladiator

[Dante]

yes

 

i keep listening to late 00s and early 10s music and will continue 4ever

[bumpah]

nope, just found out kenya grace this week spotify algorithm is great

[harwee]

I've been listening a lot of french bops and don't understand a single word

 

 

[Polgg48]

reverse psychological method for me when i used to browse on limewire netstar and they were damn hard to explore any music or going record stores to chat with staffs about music there. what's hard now is those vinyl reissue ancient releases which are not on streaming digital platforms, old jazz albums sort of that.

 

for me i say there were 2015-2020 i listened to casual radio youtube playlist a lot but repeat those charli xcx sophie melenix martinez first album or music from these music boards instead of going for new alt underground artists because i was too lazy.

[Last Boy on Earth]

Yes. I used to be obsessed about finding new artists and music and now I always stick to the same ones waiting for them to release something..

 

I give chance to some new stuff I always click on new release radar on Spotify but it seems like it’s harder for me to like new stuff compared to before? Maybe the music being released  is just worse now.

 

Neverthless every year I always some amazing albums from new artists like this year with PinkPanthress, Amaraee, Simona… so I think I still have that in me 

Edited November 22, 2023 by Last Boy on Earth

[4Real]

I've been declining in the past few months but that's bc I've lost interest in most things (not only music). But i've saved some newer stuff to listen to later.

[zasderfght]

For the most part. 

 

I listen to music when I'm bored, driving, or working out at the gym. I prefer familiar songs because it makes getting to work a little less annoying. The songs I'm familiar with, I already know they complement my workouts. 

 

As much as people dump on Fantano, if you can remove your bias, he's a great reviewer to check out simply because he can cover really obscure and underground artists. If it weren't for The Needle Drop, I wouldn't have discovered Death Grips or Charli, when she first started working with PC Music. 

[Jormungand]

Every week I'm discovering a new artist, a new sound, a new vibration. Music is my high, to deny myself of all the amazing talent out there is criminal. Even if I was born in the 60s or 70s, I know that without a shadow of a doubt I would've been the same kid who sat in record stores listening to an endless collection of Vinyl. 

[botnus]

If there’s a highlight of my boring life, it is the excitement of scrolling through albums during new release week every friday. I listened to hundreds of albums every year (sometimes it hits thousand) and it’s a rewarding experience to discover artists/genres I never knew existed. 

[Vixen Eyes]

ive spent the last two nights (last night and just now) going through some 1940's-1980's 7" records i never listened to for the first time.

found some gems and some not so good records

[Slayn]

I feel like I never would. I am just under 25 tho.

[Karla Cabello]

no

[Zaynsus]

I mostly discover "new" music on TikTok now, the videos are short and they usually feature the best part of a song so it's the best deal for me.

 

Going on Spotify, click on a playlist or an album then click on each song to play it and then listen to it for at least 2 minutes to see if I like it... I just can't do that anymore, it's a chore, I have no time for that. And even if I do it, it's mostly for new individual songs on playlists such as New Music Friday or TTH and after like 3 songs, I'm tired.

[The7thStranger]

On 11/21/2023 at 2:21 PM, Dephira said:

Maybe that’s the secret, because I use Spotify discovery algorithms all the time and I can’t relate to the other responses in this thread at all

I find that Spotify’s algorithm is good when you give it the right input. I use AM, but I only use it either at work or for albums I don’t already own. Otherwise, I use an iPod or listen to physicals. When I used Spotify, it gave me nothing but King Princess and then random 80s-inspired disco funk songs that all sounded exactly the same. 

[Raver]

I don’t go out of my way to explore new pop music. It finds me one way or another 

[ithinkheknowsoutsold]

No, I spent most of teens being an obsessive Swiftie who listened to nothing but Taylor Swift (mostly due to lack of awareness). My music taste has changed a lot in the past 2 years, and every now and then I discover a new song or a new artist that I previously had never paid heed to or even been aware of whose music I end up loving a lot. In fact every 2 or 3 weeks I come across a song I hadn't heard before which makes me go, 'This is the greatest song ever, why didn't I get to hear this earlier?' and I just love that feeling. (Right now that song is Come & Get It by Dannii Minogue off her 2003 magnum opus Neon Nights, the production on the chorus makes me transcend to a sports car race in a futuristic version of Japan).

[Apolonio ₃₄]

Hell no. I’m always discovering someone new and exploring various genres. It never gets old to me. 

[BunnyIsARider]

I'm more interested than ever in exploring new artists and genres.