Music getting flat...

[isthisLOL?]

It happens when you are oversaturated with music, everybody experiences it after a few years. It has nothing to do with music changing or being exposed to more music nowadays, it's simply knowing more music and having more experience with that music, so you're not as easy to impress anymore.

[ImpactBreaker]

Originally Posted by isthisLOL?

It happens when you are oversaturated with music, everybody experiences it after a few years. It has nothing to do with music changing or being exposed to more music nowadays, it's simply knowing more music and having more experience with that music, so you're not as easy to impress anymore.

Yeah, that's sort of the impression I'm getting. Music is all about emotion, and I believe after getting oversaturated (as you meant) over time, you sort of begin to rationalize more than feel it. Once the surprise initial thrill of a new song sounding pretty cool is over, there doesn't linger much emotional attraction to it anymore. I'm also not sure if it's just my mood since in other parts of my life things are feeling sort of flat as well, so I guess it might be interfering as a whole, but I brought the issue about music specifically because I've noticed it happened more gradually and progressively and less fluctuating than the other aspects (I've been watching and enjoying a some TV series and a playing a few games recently though, so it's not just like I'm uninterested in hobbies as a whole, though). I just wonder if going a few months without listening to any music would actually have any positive effect in that, but then I doubt I'd be able to do that LOL

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

Yeah, that's sort of the impression I'm getting. Music is all about emotion, and I believe after getting oversaturated (as you meant) over time, you sort of begin to rationalize more than feel it. Once the surprise initial thrill of a new song sounding pretty cool is over, there doesn't linger much emotional attraction to it anymore. I'm also not sure if it's just my mood since in other parts of my life things are feeling sort of flat as well, so I guess it might be interfering as a whole, but I brought the issue about music specifically because I've noticed it happened more gradually and progressively and less fluctuating than the other aspects (I've been watching and enjoying a some TV series and a playing a few games recently though, so it's not just like I'm uninterested in hobbies as a whole, though). I just wonder if going a few months without listening to any music would actually have any positive effect in that, but then I doubt I'd be able to do that LOL

The older you get, the harder it gets for you to be impressed, as isthisLOL pointed... no creative work is 100% original, and on every area there are the main rules to do a certain piece of work with a certain result... once u r exposed to enough material, u get familiar with those rules (even if u don't openly know or think about them) and it's natural that stuff feels less interesting...

That's why people tend to have the first material they felt in love with as their favorite and to ignore or dislike most of stuff done after it...

[susiowong]

Originally Posted by isthisLOL?

It happens when you are oversaturated with music, everybody experiences it after a few years. It has nothing to do with music changing or being exposed to more music nowadays, it's simply knowing more music and having more experience with that music, so you're not as easy to impress anymore.

Ah, that explains it perfectly.

Originally Posted by kotora

Any music would be good after getting drunk, including flat music.

I gotta disagree; I tend to dislike a lot of music when I'm drunk, even ones I like a lot. Weird effect.