At what point did you give up on caring about music?

never stopped

When they stopped making good music.

when was that?

Over 40, I still care about music a lot, but in a way that looks very different from what "caring about music" meant when I was 25 -- i.e. I still buy music, still see shows, but no longer feel any Fear Of Missing Out or in general any need to keep up. And there are no longer new records I listen to hundreds and hundreds of times until I have them essentially memorized. In other words I'm not sure my younger self would say that my current self "cares about music."

So, "Other."

I still care about music but I'm not able to put in the time to find good music (particularly indie/rock/etc.). Pretty much all the new music I've bought in the last couple of years has been rap - I actually hear good rap on the radio occasionally, whereas rock radio offers me nothing and the indie/NPR station might as well be playing Paste samplers.
The overwhelming choice and variety and random release scheduling of the digital age has pushed me toward making less of an effort.

i care about music more than i ever have.

Has ILM actually put anyone off music rather than just off reading about music?

shit, forgot to put in "Stopped clubbing"

Care less than I used to, but still care.

can't stop won't stop

my answer to this falls somewhere between 'never stopped caring' and 'when i realized i prefer watching tv'

I care in a different way. I don't care about being the first to know about new stuff (stopped being that guy after high school) and I don't really care about knowing the canon anymore (stopped after realizing I didn't like most of it) but I've never stopped obsessing over music, what it can do and how different it can be. I became a poptimist a decade too late, I suppose...

tie between "Realised you preferred movies" and turning 40

started a family

of course I still care about music, but that was the final straw in terms of it still feeling like a crucially important part of my life, central to my identity, something I'd devote several hours a day to in one way or another, etc.

Just now

Thanks, special character

Has ILM actually put anyone off music rather than just off reading about music?

― ۩, Tuesday, October 22, 2013 2:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think ILM gradually put me off having any kind of strong convictions about music (other than "I really like x"). I'm pretty much incapable of dismissing anything anymore, or of having an absolute dogmatic feeling about any aesthetic choice.

never stopped

I am afraid that this thread, mordy's thread on "what really matters," and bends' recent revive of the "ILX is sad" thread indicates that ilxors are collectively coming to the realization that they don't want to be doing this and the boards will
be abandoned within a month...

or we will all double down on ilx as the only thing to fill the void in our horrible horrible lives

If it makes you feel better treeship I was unaware of those threads. It was just something I was thinking about recently after thinking about friends , acquaintances, neighbours etc. that used to be really into music and just arent anymore. I know so many people who gave up on it either after university or stopped going clubbing.

treeship, are you going to post to my thread? i think it could use you.

When they stopped making good music.

― pplains, Tuesday, October 22, 2013 2:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Music is like any art. When it is at its best, it's amazing and moving. But there's a ton of mediocre art out there, whether it's music, poetry, film, sculpture, architecture or macramed plant holders. And I just don't care much about mediocre art other than to think it is clogging up valuable sensory space.

In the case of music, most of what I am exposed to these days is on the radio, and most of it is pretty weak beer. I listen a lot to a classical station, because even though there's crappy classical, too, the general level of quality is a bit higher than contemporary pop - plus no commercials, which helps immensely.

I will stop caring about music when I die

Start worrying then if you stop liking music DJP

stopped caring about shakespeare during the annus mirabilis of 1922

DJP OTM.

I don't understand the mindset that defines "caring about music" as "caring about NEW music" tbh

me neither, but if ILX has taught me anything, it's "i don't understand the mindset"

I still like music but dont really care about it. Radio at work/in car music etc. is good. FITTER HAPPIER MORE PRODUCTIVE COMFORTABLE NOT DRINKING TOO MUCH REGULAR EXERCISE AT THE GYM 3 DAYS A WEEK

ppl say this all the time and it's def an ilx cliche at this pt but i think it's true: if you aren't hearing exciting new music you're probably not looking in the right places? i understand if you don't have time to investigate + be all thorough but there's so much different music being made that something appealing is certainly out there.

I've also been wondering if music basically being free now with piracy has meant people care less about it OR has it reinvigorated those who had lost interested into checking out music again. Certainly found that older people have become the latter (ie 30+) in the past decade

one of my biggest joys has been getting into new genres/styles/musical origins and parlaying that into other interests (textual/poetic/political/geo-ethnic/etc) - music both for itself as these gorgeous moments of sonic joy but also as gateways into new fields + locations of interest that otherwise may not have occurred to me - like music is a wound that allows access to the other.

the point I was making, though, is that you can dislike the majority of new-to-you music that you come across and still care very deeply about music

LOL nv

like, I think 80-90% of modern hip-hop is hot garbage but guess what? I still fucking love music, I listen to it close to 8 hours a day, old favorites and new stuff, including hip-hop that ends up disappointing me because there's a chance it will be the greatest fucking thing I've heard in YEARS and that moment of discovery is one of the greatest feelings in the world

"Never stopped caring" is the closest, but, as with most people I'm sure, I care in different ways than when I was 12 or 21 or 30. That would need a lengthy elaboration.

if you aren't hearing exciting new music you're probably not looking in the right places?

This is undoubtedly true. I suppose it comes down to caring enough to take the time to sift through all the possibilities - kind of like an archaeologist spending 20 hours poking about with a toothbrush for every interesting fragment of an artifact that gets unearthed. If that is the measure of "caring about music", then I guess I no longer care about music, because I won't take that time these days. Maybe in a couple of years that'll change.

wd argue that as i stopped being a fan i really started caring about music

musing to music is something that never gets old, sorta by definition?

i think i care in a much deeper way now than when i was 12. when i was 12 i had this overwhelming emotive experience where green day + disturbed + (less lol) nirvana spoke to me on a really intimate emotional level and sometimes i listened to music and i couldn't even express what i was feeling when i heard it - it felt like emotions were being unlocked and then spilled and overflowing over my entire essence it was almost too much. but i don't know how much it led me outside myself as opposed to giving me access to stuff already going inside that i didn't really have the vocabulary to express. today though it is a huge component of how i interact w/ and understand the world outside me. and then touching that stuff comes back and alters me fundamentally but i don't think in 1997 i was looking for music to change me, more to help me purge my feelings - experience some emotional catharsis.

tl;dr what nv said i think

part of what i meant, i think, tho i hadn't thought of it in those terms - but being a fan meant looking for something that wasn't just the music, and at the time i thought it was the artiste

I certainly wouldn't claim there's "no good new music" it's just that I've lost my capacity to care in the same way. For example, five years ago I KNOW that this William Onyeabor reissue thing would have me all het up, and I'd be getting all excited about it and talking up a storm with music buds. Now I just kind of shrug my shoulders at it. I'll listen to it, and I'll probably enjoy it, but I just no longer have the hormones or brain chemistry or whatever it is to feel like it's really important to my life that William Onyeabor is being reissued.

I've also been wondering if music basically being free now with piracy has meant people care less about it OR has it reinvigorated those who had lost interested into checking out music again. Certainly found that older people have become the latter (ie 30+) in the past decade

Not piracy exactly, but getting spotify has definitely increased my excitement about music both old and new, which maybe had been dwindling a bit beforehand

I follow new music much less (if at all,) I purchase much less, and I listen much less due to time constraints. Still care immensely.

i mean, there's an obvious real difference between being a teenager with not much else to do but sit alone in my room consuming music and daydreaming and being a oh fuck it nevermind

voted "realized i preferred reading books" but actual answer was "started caring about school/future"

i'm all het up about that william onyeabor rerelease

* i'm unclear about the etymological root of "het up," it's not some homophobic expression is it?

Maybe it's just me, but I suspect that's implied in the original question? (xp)

Argh

I find it very sad that people can only like music if they're on drugs rather than letting it enhance their listening.

I think if you consider cigs & booze drugs, you will find this is a LOT of people. Many of whom often state how much they sincerely love music.

you dont consider them drugs eh

wonder sometimes if people ever really cared about music as much as what music could do for them

ask not...

Maybe it's just me, but I suspect that's implied in the original question? (xp)

No

and now you upset djp!

I almost gave up on music the other day after hearing the Hero & Leander songs Doran posted mind you. I almost gave up on life tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9qT6TBr9RE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZfegwx0ROg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M3fHSD-VU4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znoz1IJbK_k

Watch all those and tell me you dont feel like giving up on life

oh ffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibpcIb_JuDw

Ok yeah I def know who you are

who is it???

Nobody important

typical self-deprecation there, marcello

Albert camus?

I likes the melodics musics.

Lol

James Brown made me stop caring

Geir hangs w Doran...? What a wild world!

;)

I didn't realize Geir was human, always imagined he was something like:

http://news.toyark.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2013/09/Ninja-Turtles-Classics-Krang-Shredder.jpg

I find it very sad that people can only like music if they're on drugs rather than letting it enhance their listening.

Absolutely.

If your primary point of reference for music is clubbing while rolling, when you stop doing that wouldn't some of the link be broken?

this assumes that people who go clubbing only listen to music when clubbing. or that humans don't have a memory. or that we don't develop a liking for things over time by exposing ourselves to them... and so forth.

But it does happen to some. Maybe others might say they didn't particularly care about the actual music but that's not for me to say.

I never stopped but I find I'm now listening to a lot more podcasts and stuff than I used to.

i have never listened to music as a default state, like just turning it on when i get home. it's always a sort of conscious thing. i can easily go hours and days without putting anything on. i like it this way, it feels more voluntary to me. the idea of having music on while i'm reading is insane to me, it would drive me batty.

I used to have music AND the television on while reading

basically my life is defined by how thoroughly I can barrage my senses

I still do, DJP

I like very, very minimal ambient on while I read.

hard bop jazz is great for reading

^ works better for me than most classical or ambient

with 50 fading fast in the rearview mirror, I find I care more about music than ever ... though over time my engagement with it has become less social and more about personal enjoyment and self-education

I've gone with 'other', because while I've never stopped caring about music, attachments to specific pieces/styles of music definitely stopped being a part of my public identity at about 18. I stopped 'externalising' my musical tastes. But I still judge other people for theirs, undeniably, although I catch myself in the act now and feel annoyed.

'normal' people judge 'us' as "weird" for being into music tbf

for a long time in the western world a passion for music was considered a vice on par with drinking, gambling, pornography, gluttonous eating, etc

Is that true?

So it's true, people really did have more fun in the olden days?

they may have enjoyed music more, but records from the olden days are sketchy at best.

yeah noone knows how many records were sold in the 1960's

no?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Never cared about music

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

so 45 people stopped liking music but the good news is if you still like it at 40 then you're in it for life.

fire = honoured

I should have asked before I voted, but can you prefer movies/TV and still care about music?

that would still mean you cared more about movies/tv than music.

If you prefer TV Movies to music i'd be scared though.

I suppose most ilxors who never cared about music didn't bother clicking on the thread?

the thread you would need is

At what age did you realize you never cared cared about music

fagvo 'cared' is all