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

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.

Still love metal, punk, blues, rock 
born with Sad wings of destiny lp attached to my back with womb fluid !

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One other observation I would like to make is that when you get older your choice of music matures... You also begin to realize that some of the contemporary singers can't sing very well and albums are made that promotes singers who aren't really good and cover their voices with background singers or special effects. Music from the 50s to 79 seem to have artist who were brilliant in presenting what music should be. It does happen in modern music but is much more rare than from that time.

I don't know for sure but I would bet that most older audiophiles would tend to prefer jazz singers over other types of genres because of this maturing. It's mostly pure vocals with nice background music.... What do you think am I right or completely off base?

@frankmc195 - I think you are probably right; I'm 71, and my tastes are VERY different from most people I know in my age group, who like those jazz/nice music things that I don't like or that put me to sleep.

I got about another 20 years or so before I'm ready for that! 😁