May I refer to you answer #1 in this thread?
Hi Heels. I did indeed read your #1 fine answer and I do indeed totally agree with it and with you. However, rightly or wrongly, I was trying to encourage someone, anyone, on IA to tease out a
clinical or medical or scientific reason why older people really hate Justin Bieber rather than it being solely because everyone (apart from our ever-youthful upside down friend Cosmos) tend to stay teenagers at heart and so just love their teenage music.
So, feeling a tad stymied, I frustratedly did some digging in the Google patch...and lucked out immediately with this little gem that gives not
one but seven
scientific reasons why the ageing process changes our tastes in music and in everything else from losing the teenage rebellious streak to why some people even lose their taste in spicy food and switch to a life of eating bowls of bland pap.
More to the point, here's what the website (aimed predominantly at spotty yoofs) says about the scientific reason for losing interest in newer music as one gets older..."As you get older, your brain becomes more and more unable to handle dopamine, which, as we've pointed out before, is a big factor in making us feel "the chills" when a new exciting piece of music comes on.
Because nothing you hear will have that same effect on you as the fresh exciting sounds of your youth, it will become harder and harder to get fired up about new music. Your musical taste will therefore stagnate, regardless of how on top of the trends you were at 17. If you want to know what new music will sound like when you're 50, go spend an hour watching TV shows intended for toddlers. See how long you can tolerate it."So, bliddy dopamine strikes again! And it is more than backed up, as you quite rightly said, by "the fact that the association with the feelings and experiences" we were having at the time give us an added reason for liking the 'old' music. Plus the fact that music stopped in the '80s. There really can be no argument with that. Rock on!
http://www.cracked.com/article_19722_7-scientific-reasons-youll-turn-out-just-like-your-parents.htmlhotel. Just accept it.