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| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Been doing a bit of thinking about this lately:
http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...5&forumid=16&s=
It seems like most people experience fewer extremes of emotion as they get older, and it's harder for music or other things to provoke them into intense feelings.
So, is part of this "lack of emotion" that people talk about the subjective side of a generation of EDM listeners "growing up" and becoming more "immune" to emotional extremes? |
Yeah, thats what i'am thinking, thats what i always said and i think that it is partially true. People become "habituated" to the music as they grow older, they eventually grow out of it."Habituated" is essentially like having to take "larger doses" of something in order to get the same effect. The saw-synths were like auditory opiates to our ears. But we took large "doses", we wanted more and it seems that we "didn't get what we wanted in the long-term".Trance for example didn't evolve with us to match our "habituating minds". These saw sounds stayed the same, and whilst many more new younger "trance-addicts" were attracted to the auditory drug,these saw synths eventually ended-up having no effects on us. Dissapointed, we started bashing them with hate, bullying younger addicts, telling them how "lame" they are, without understanding that they feel in the same way we used to feel. We look at our past through the lenses of today, lenses made of the present and "distorting" our memories. These distortions look funny, and we conclude that we were young, immature fools with bad taste. We like "cooler" stuff now and we have possibly acquired new tastes.
So, i'm really not sure anymore for example (and this is a subject which is discussed a lot in here) if todays trance sucks, or today's trance sucks to older trance listeners. I guess, that it is true that todays trance hasn't evolved much (due to "financial" reasons) but what contributes most to not liking, is peoples minds rather than music per se.
Now this happens ofcourse with any musical genre. "Trance" was an example and by using "We" in the first paragraph i didn't mean "me" and "You" in the literal sense (although we could be!). This "process" also happens all the time, so beware, it is quite probable that your future self will view your current self as a great fool for liking what you like now! (and the ways you behave in general)
Now, i don't say that one doesn't like a genre because he/she has become (or feels that he/she has become) "less emotional" in general. I say that when you listen to something a lot and this something doesn't change you get "less emotional with that specific something". To connect with you other "decreased emotionality" thread of yours, whilst i personally have become less emotional in general, i can still feel very emotonal with some specific types of music/genres/tunes etc. It is true that my decreased emotionality relates to the fact that i'm not emotional THAT often (and to the same extend that i used to) as i was in the past, but i believe that one can always be emotional with any forms of art regardless his/her personality changes.
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