How old were you when you stopped listening to Pop Music?

[Tamas]

Yeah maybe but he is sure as hell not "alternative" either. I hate these definitions, and the apparent need to make them btw.

There are utter crap, which by incident make the charts like britney spears and rap and what have you, and there are a LOT more decent music whose quality is up to individual tastes.

[Savonarola]

Also, I think the way Sav defines pop music is quite retarded. Does music stop being "pop music" after a while, only because it falls of the charts?

In the context of this thread, yes.  I'm asking when you stopped listening to current popular songs; not if you still listen to soul-free dance music from 30 years ago.

[Slargos]

One of my main sources of music is radio since I do 95% of my music in the car. I am thus subjected to whatever the DJ du jour has chosen to favour me with, and a lot of the time it's Top XX lists.

Some of it I enjoy, some of it I detest.

I think I would somehow have to transform into a music nerd in order to start categorizing myself as a person who listens to X but not Y since X is the highest form of musical artistry while Y is the essence of vulgarity takes-sniff-on-scented-kerchief-smooths-skirts-and-rearranges-whig.

Edit: But in the end, I guess it depends on what you mean by "pop music"

I thoroughly enjoyed the 90s dance wave and I happily listen to its children of the oughties who are in my opinion doing a good job of keeping it fresh.

[Brazen]

After a helpful Facebook debate, I think I stopped listening to pop music shortly after I went to Uni, around 19. I became a Goth about the time the charts became dominated by house music.

[Savonarola]

Edit: But in the end, I guess it depends on what you mean by "pop music"

That rap-metal crap you kids are listening to these days.

[Slargos]

Edit: But in the end, I guess it depends on what you mean by "pop music"

That rap-metal crap you kids are listening to these days.

Fair enough. I don't think I ever started. 

[Korea]

I use to listen to Nsync, Back Street Boys, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Brandy, and etc. That is pop music to me. But I think I stopped listening to that when I was like 14. I've started listening to it again lately though.  :wtf:

Get your own accound, Ide.  Honestly.

[dps]

I’m asking when you stopped listening to current popular songs; not if you still listen to soul-free dance music from 30 years ago.

Even that's not all that helpful.  I don't think there's ever been a time that there wasn't something in the current Top 40 that I liked, but there's also never been a time that I liked everything that was in the Top 40, either.

[dps]

I read somewhere that some AM station are still top 40 format.

Who the heck listens to music on AM anymore?

[Savonarola]

Even that's not all that helpful.  I don't think there's ever been a time that there wasn't something in the current Top 40 that I liked, but there's also never been a time that I liked everything that was in the Top 40, either.

Was there ever a time when you listened mostly to songs in the top 40?

[Syt]

Edit: But in the end, I guess it depends on what you mean by "pop music"

That rap-metal crap you kids are listening to these days.

Not in Europe. Dance pop FTL. Even rap-metal would be an improvement.

[dps]

Even that's not all that helpful.  I don't think there's ever been a time that there wasn't something in the current Top 40 that I liked, but there's also never been a time that I liked everything that was in the Top 40, either.

Was there ever a time when you listened mostly to songs in the top 40?

No.

[Savonarola]

Was there ever a time when you listened mostly to songs in the top 40?

No.

Then you never listened primarily to pop music (as defined as music currently on the Top 40.)  So the answer to my question, for you, would be never.

[crazy canuck]

Demographics changed radio.  Around here there are a lot of "oldies" stations that play music from the 60s-90s but very few stations that play current pop.


As a result the only reason I know anything about current music is because my boys play their Ipods through the family stereo amp from time to time.

[Malthus]

Demographics changed radio.  Around here there are a lot of "oldies" stations that play music from the 60s-90s but very few stations that play current pop.


As a result the only reason I know anything about current music is because my boys play their Ipods through the family stereo amp from time to time.

Oh the things I have to look forward to!