I was listening to a story on NPR the other day and it really amazed me how dead on it was.
They did a study of monkeys who had to change habitats at some time in their lives.
The intent of the study was to ascertain at what age do animals, or perhaps people, lose their ability or desire to try new things, or seek out new experiences as opposed to staying with what they like.
....So the study found that monkeys in their youth or in their "teens" (comparatively) were much more likely to try new plants and food.
Monkeys that had turned even slightly older (mid-life - old) were MUCH less likely to try new plants or food.
They mirrored that with a study in the US about how likely a person was to try sushi. Researchers found that adults over age 25 who had never tried sushi were never, ever going to try it 90% of the time. In other words, if you haven't tried it by 25, you likely would not ever try it.
They also studied peoples music collections and studied the release date of the CDs in peoples collections. What they found was that, for a good 75% of the time or more, the music people were most likely to have stuck to is the music that they listened to from the time they were 12 until they were 24 years old.
Also, they were more likely to call that period "the best time for music" or see that time period as a more authentic or legitimate musical era than today or any other time period; in other words, for people, animals, and probably nearly everyone, the time that you cement your interests and likings seems to be age 12-24.
Anyways...to wrap this up.
I carpool with a friend who is a bit younger than me (about 22) and he popped in some Johnny-Come-Lately, Emo-But-Screamo band whose vocalist was oscillating on the edge of puberty and I got into a rant, a long rant.
I've realized I don't like 99% of the non-rap out there today.
It's almost always little skinny white kids, in skinny clothes, with a emo but screamo edge to them, with song titles like "Before My Hypothesis Became Aware, You Were The Transient Soliloquoy in my Euphemistic Story" - filled with corny and portentious misuse of big words, modern day emo camp that seems to be everywhere, etc. etc.
And girls today dress fucking horrible. They wear like some fuckin oversized scarf that their grandma gave them with some big horizontal striped shirt and ski goggle glasses, with the same fuckin streaky-but-not-streaky dyed hair that is black-and-white at the same time, with the same little fuckin round emo poofhead haircut.
It's just really not attractive to me at all. Bitches used to dress well when I was in high school. Girls used to dress like girls, not Kurt Cobain's nerd-ass cousin who didn't really get it but tried anyway. Girls didn't all have a tramp stamp on their lower back. Hard music was simple, it was hard, the people had tattoos and looked mean, and they looked like they should be playing hard music.
So I went off on the guy. What happened to Strife? What happened to Sick Of It All? What about old Machine Head? White Zombie? Pissing Razors? Meshuggah? Obituary? Earth Crisis? All Out War? Shai Hulud? Nirvana? Snapcase? Poison The Well? Smashing Pumpkins?
And then I realized...
I will never "get it" or "like it". I've officially passed the curve, and this generation's shit will always be crap to me. No amount of learning or listening will fix it. I'm an old fogey.
They did a study of monkeys who had to change habitats at some time in their lives.
The intent of the study was to ascertain at what age do animals, or perhaps people, lose their ability or desire to try new things, or seek out new experiences as opposed to staying with what they like.
....So the study found that monkeys in their youth or in their "teens" (comparatively) were much more likely to try new plants and food.
Monkeys that had turned even slightly older (mid-life - old) were MUCH less likely to try new plants or food.
They mirrored that with a study in the US about how likely a person was to try sushi. Researchers found that adults over age 25 who had never tried sushi were never, ever going to try it 90% of the time. In other words, if you haven't tried it by 25, you likely would not ever try it.
They also studied peoples music collections and studied the release date of the CDs in peoples collections. What they found was that, for a good 75% of the time or more, the music people were most likely to have stuck to is the music that they listened to from the time they were 12 until they were 24 years old.
Also, they were more likely to call that period "the best time for music" or see that time period as a more authentic or legitimate musical era than today or any other time period; in other words, for people, animals, and probably nearly everyone, the time that you cement your interests and likings seems to be age 12-24.
Anyways...to wrap this up.
I carpool with a friend who is a bit younger than me (about 22) and he popped in some Johnny-Come-Lately, Emo-But-Screamo band whose vocalist was oscillating on the edge of puberty and I got into a rant, a long rant.
I've realized I don't like 99% of the non-rap out there today.
It's almost always little skinny white kids, in skinny clothes, with a emo but screamo edge to them, with song titles like "Before My Hypothesis Became Aware, You Were The Transient Soliloquoy in my Euphemistic Story" - filled with corny and portentious misuse of big words, modern day emo camp that seems to be everywhere, etc. etc.
And girls today dress fucking horrible. They wear like some fuckin oversized scarf that their grandma gave them with some big horizontal striped shirt and ski goggle glasses, with the same fuckin streaky-but-not-streaky dyed hair that is black-and-white at the same time, with the same little fuckin round emo poofhead haircut.
It's just really not attractive to me at all. Bitches used to dress well when I was in high school. Girls used to dress like girls, not Kurt Cobain's nerd-ass cousin who didn't really get it but tried anyway. Girls didn't all have a tramp stamp on their lower back. Hard music was simple, it was hard, the people had tattoos and looked mean, and they looked like they should be playing hard music.
So I went off on the guy. What happened to Strife? What happened to Sick Of It All? What about old Machine Head? White Zombie? Pissing Razors? Meshuggah? Obituary? Earth Crisis? All Out War? Shai Hulud? Nirvana? Snapcase? Poison The Well? Smashing Pumpkins?
And then I realized...
I will never "get it" or "like it". I've officially passed the curve, and this generation's shit will always be crap to me. No amount of learning or listening will fix it. I'm an old fogey.
