Music for adults
Today I decided I wanted to listen to something totally different. I mean completely, 100% off my usual music radar. Way the hell out there.
Enter: Miley Cyrus. My understanding is she’s the reigning overlord of the under 15 world. Definitely unexplored territory. Anyway. Dear lord, do they compresss the hell out of this music. Every track is just a wall of sound (and not in a good M83 way).
It’s funny to think of music as something that can be easily divided into “adult” and “youth” sections, they way beverages, movies, or the Internet can be. I feel like music is universal - we all hear the same radio stations, have access to MySpace, etc (unlike alcohol and R films). But I think as you grow as a listener, you appreciate dynamic range, varied instrumentation, and unusual arrangements much more.
If kids were given access to beer at any age, would they still naturally prefer to drink juice at parties until they were 15? Would they grow into drinking beer around the same time they learned to enjoy Portishead?
