I don't go out much, but when I do, most music I've experienced seems to be tolerable at best and ear-assault at worst. I can only think of maybe 2 or 3 times in the past decade where I've heard music in a public location and was interested enough to want to know what song it was.

> I don't go out much

Behold, the average HN user I was referring to

It was an unrelated point, though. I'm not sure going out more would result in me finding more music I enjoy, unless I heavily vary where I go.

> I know these sort of situations are rare for the average HN user.

A generalization if I ever saw one.

Foghorn Leghorn has some comments for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwnwbG9YLE

And the original Senator Claghorn that Foghorn Leghorn was channeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBE92naflJ0

Have you ever heard about the concept of the "joke?" Novelty thing, I tell you. Admittedly, it might be a bit too recent of a concept for the average person to be aware of, especially with how radical it is.

Here's a recent book of them, to help you get "in" on the "hip slang" of tomorrow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philogelos

People like you take the fun out of this community

An Abderite sees a eunuch talking with a woman and asks him if she's his wife. The guy responds that a eunuch is unable to have a wife. "Ah, so she's your daughter?"

They're also rare for anyone over 30 to care about (if not the situations themselves, what some random soundtrack to them is). Give it time...

Yup. I too completely lost interest in music when I hit 30

/s

Yup, because it matters what some outliers do when it comes to statements about the general population ("it's also rare")

/s

I think I misunderstood ... what exactly is rare?

People being as interested to follow new music after 30-40 as opposed in their teens early 20s...

Seems possible, do you have studies or statistical data showing this?

Other people might be different from you.

A correct statement based on three wrong assumptions.

1) That I've lost interest in music myself (I didn't).

2) That whether some other people might not lose music was disputed. Perhaps you imagined me as some strange creature in a cave that has never heard or known of people that maintain their interest in music to their late age.

3) That the fact that some other people don't lose interest in music is relevant. I was making a general statement ("it's also rare"). Most people do lose interest in music compared to their younger years. That's not some fringe claim, it's borne out by buying patterns and studies. People tend to stick to the music of their youth time and again. Even the new artists they discover tend to be of the same genres and styles in vogue when they were younger.

Even if so, why would that mean older people have no use for Shazam? Have you never heard an old song you half-recognized and thought “huh, what band is that again?”

>why would that mean older people have no use for Shazam?

It doesn't mean "older people have no use for Shazam".

It means "as it has been observed statistically, _most_ older people don't seem to have a use for Shazam and any random older person is more likely to fall into that category than the rest of the older people".

Carl Craig is old too.

>Have you never heard an old song you half-recognized and thought “huh, what band is that again?”

Yes, but this is not such a large part of the older demographic's lifestyle for the app to matter much to them.

Old people also want to send their dickpicks too, but they don't flock to Snapchat.

I would dispute 3, listening to the same genre doesn't imply you lost interest in music, because being interested doesn't comprise only of listening to the different genres. According to your definition if you listen to the same genres 7/24 your whole life, it means you lost interest in music after 30?

Listening to the same genre means that you're not as willing to search anymore. So even if you're still interested in _your_ kinds of music, you're not interest in exploring the musical landscape as much as you did -- your preferences have solidified.

But, honestly, I don't know how all this is controversial, unless someone is 20 and all their friends are too.

I'd expect anybody over 30 or so to verify that even if music is still a big deal for them, it's not as much for most of their friends as it was in their teen years and early 20s.

Unless you're 30 and all your friends are eg. DJs and techno-heads or heavy-metal fans still rocking those leather pants, the usual course is that they are more interesting in their careers, families, new babies, and binge watching TV and surfing, than following music, even if that was a big part of their identity in their teens. Is that inaccurate?

By 30, I had already committed every song to memory so I no longer needed Shazam.