What kind of music do people above 45 like?

Question

What genre sells the most with people above 45, especially those who don't know how to download music, never use computer for music and don't know what iTunes is?

Answer 1

classic music

Answer 2

In general, people most enjoy the kind of music they listen to when they were between the ages of 15 and 25. The reason for this (according to a radio show I was listening to once) is that between these ages, one has the time and energy (and usually money) to spend on music.

Now, this doesn't necessarilly mean that the person will love the top 40. If a person listened to classical music during this time and avoided listening to other forms of music, he or she would probably still listen to classical music at the age of 45.

Answer 3

Most people over 45 know very well how to download things, use their computer for music and know with iTunes is.

To give you a frame of reference, it tends to be people in their late fifties and early sixties or so who may have been among the first to design and use the software that was the foundation for software in use today. A person who was working at a company in the late seventies may have been using a computer that was not as fancy but that was in ways very similiar to the ones in use today. Whether they designed them or just used them in the late 70's or the 80's, people who are over 45 (in the technology age in which they have spent the last 20 or so years in their lives) have often had over 20 years experience with using computers. With each upgrade of each computer adults generally know what the latest machine does and use it just the way kids do.

With regard to what music people over 45 may like: Since mature people no longer have to worry about only listening to what is "cool", people over 45 listen to their own, individual, preferences when it comes to music - and that usually includes a broad range of different types of music. Since 70's and 80's music was what was around when they were young they may like some of that, but most full-grown adults I know like several different types of music.

Answer 4

Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan, ZZ, Pink Floyd, you know things like that. But hey, I'm not 45 and I listen to those, so its all good. I listen to classical music as well. I'm really a Bach fan. But anyway, I think that anyone can listen to any kind of music, and age doesn't nessessarily have everything to do with what type of music people listen to.

Answer 5

Well..I'm 45 and I like everything...from country to Offspring..to Muse...but if you are looking for an average person's taste in music..(I'm not too average..I like to live in the present) there is nothing appreciated more than the music you listened to in High School.. Matter of fact a couple of days ago I partied with a few friends and they started listening to "OUR MUSIC" from the High School days...(we partied too!) and wow...everyone was freaking out..damn that was some good music...and indeed it was and still is...Boston, Journey, Foreigner, Van Halen, Bob Dylan, Eagles, Ted Nugent..But ask my mom..whew...she's an old fart..like 68 or something...she'll tell you Englebert Humperdink, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Elvis Presley..So I guess ya just gotta go with their age!

*Oh yeah..bye the way...we do know how to download music, we have IPODS and we use I tunes..and damn if we don't even have one of those puter things you were talkin about!! lol..lol :)

Answer 6

I'm 48, and I do know how to download music, but I prefer to buy the CD and burn a copy of it to my computer, then load it onto my mp3 player from there. So I guess I'm not totally clueless.

Anyway, I like the music I grew up with. 60's and 70's music, on through 80's and beyond. I like listening to the music played on popular TV shows, and I buy the soundtracks and play them over and over until I'm nearly sick of them. My faves are from Gray's Anatomy and Scrubs. (What is it about hospital shows and music?) I like music that is done well, with complex and surprising parts, that show feeling. I like serious and moody, as well as silly and fun.

Answer 7

ask your Mom she or her friends could tell you. Didn't you grow up with people at least 18 years your senior? You don't recall what was popular for your parents while you were growing up? The same songs and genre that were popular then are popular still with their generation and younger and older generations, music is timeless. Jazz and Blues and Bluegrass are loved by collage aged computer whizzes,You need more exposure! Get out of your rut.

Answer 8

We like songs that celebrate love, fun and peace. We like them to be musical, lyrical and with lyrics expressing the best of human emotions.

Alternatively we love creative genres like jazz and the blues that highlight musicianship and art. Amos Garrett and the 'A' Team, Tim Williams and so many others that have enriched the art scene all over the world playing their music and amazing audiences everywhere with their talent and musical creativity.

We also love the classics played by large orchestras and written by musical masters like Beethoven, Mozart, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky.

We think music is food for the soul, to celebrate the spirit and encourage us in our pursuits.

We older folks don't consider HipHop, art or uplifting or enjoyable or even music. We think rap is crap. We believe music is something one should listen to, actively, and not as background to every other activity we do. We love music played by real people on REAL instruments. Technocrap is artificial with no soul and very little to hold the interest of the musically educated.

We believe that nature has music in all aspects of it. The sound of a breeze rustling the leaves of a birch tree, the birds in the early morning, the crickets and frogs at night, the sound of water gurgling over rocks in a mountain stream, the call of an elk, howl of the wolf and the sound of laughter of people. All these soft subtle sounds speak to our soul.

We older folks object to the constant barrage of noise that today's youth subject themselves to with ipods playing noise loud enough for all to hear on a bus...even from ear phones. That noise drowns out all the music that surrounds us, if we would care to open our ears to it.

We think the sound of silence helps people to think and to learn and to concentrate and to READ. We do not understand the popularity of violent protest through music and profanity. You are the last generation. You have lost your connection to nature and to God.

Any other questions?

Answer 9

I am 45+ yrs. i know how to download music and transfer to ipod, I also know people in their 20s who do not know how to do that.
i cant bearly type, and never was taught computers.
As to music, i prefer 70s, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin...
I also have Eminem, Lil'john, Big and Rich etc.....
Yes i am older but I'm not that outta touch!
I also know text speak...
Youngsters, think they know everything!
Live and learn!
No young kids either!
So everyone over 45 is out of touch, you think?
Wrong!

Answer 10

I would say it depends on the person, but mostly music from the 60's and 70's.

Answer 11

With this kind of attitude your nickname should be 'T Rex' as in dinosaur. Get out and meet some older people, and get to know them. You.would be suprised how savvy they are, and how much many of them enjoy modern music.
Incidentally, I've met many young people who enjoy classical music.