Spotify Data Suggests Midlife Music Crisis at 42

"Streaming music service Spotify has identified 42 as the age when many of its users rediscover the joys of current pop music, as part of research into how their tastes mature over time."

“During the teenage years, we embrace music at the top of the charts more than at any other time in our lives. As we grow older, our taste in music diverges sharply from the mainstream up to age 25, and a bit less sharply after that,”.

"Around age 42, music taste briefly curves back to the popular charts — a musical midlife crisis and attempt to harken back to our youth, perhaps?”

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/23/spotify-musical-midlife-crisis-42-year-old

I'm a few weeks away from the target age and subscribe to a streaming service. I'm also a parent. I think it's a rather unique characteristic of this type of service. You pay no more to listen to a new release than you do for something you've listened to for 25 years, and it's just as easy. Plus there is not the stigma of being the "old" person at the record store.

I think I'm more of a music nerd than the average person my age, but there are definitely some "lost years" when my son was younger. By the time I started seriously revisiting my music collection I realized I was bored with a lot of it.

+48V said:

"the joys of current pop music"

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The joys of current pop music? Really, the joys of current pop music?

More likely the 42 year old kids using daddy's Spotify Account to confuse the researchers.