Further to that, the musical era that dominates oldies discussion also correlates to the baby boom peak

aflem wrote:

I'm not sure they needed to do much to prove what most of us already know - you prefer the music you heard when you were a teen or a little older. 

"We discovered that, across our participant sample as a whole, music that was in the charts during one’s adolescence was not only rated as more familiar, but was also associated with more autobiographical memories. This music-related reminiscence bump peaked around age 14: songs popular when participants were this age evoked the most memories overall.

In addition, older adults (around age 40+) also liked songs from their adolescence more than other songs. However, younger adults (aged 18-40) did not show this same trend, and in some cases gave even lower liking ratings to music from their adolescence than music released before they were born.

This suggests that songs from our adolescence can become closely entangled with memories from our past even if we don’t personally value the music. This may be because it has accompanied various memorable settings from this period (school dances, gatherings with friends, graduations, and so on)."

Study Purports To Show Why You Prefer Certain Eras Of Music 

bollocks. most of us? i'd say most of us, of reasonable curiousity and interest in culture and arts, are not at all bound by childnood memories and are capable of judging and appreciating songs of any sort or era on their own merit regarldess of whether they do or don't sound like anything heard in the past, and aren't afraid, or conditioned, to objectively do so. anyone who prefers only what sounds as if they've heard something like it in the past would seem to me to be, politely, myopic at best.

besides, who cares? polls and studies can be, and often are, fashioned to reflect just about anything the authors wish them to indicate. .. whatever subjectivity may or may not exist in this case, the key word, above, is likely in the header: "purports".
 

Last edited by gopher (April 9, 2021 4:23 am)