Mostly what I’m concerned about with ageing and music is that someone will pull a Greta Van Fleet/ Led Zeppelin scenario but for like… My Chemical Romance or something. So now, when we get together, we just play things from 2006 again say things like “are we getting older? I think we’re getting older?” until one of us gets tired and has to go home. It’s something to do with memory, experience and a thing called the reminiscence bump, but none of that really matters because all my friends are also roughly my age. Nothing sounds as good as it did when I was 16, which is a phenomenon so common that they’ve actually conducted studies to work out why that is.
I’ve said before on this podcast that I’m terrible at music, and I’m big enough to admit that at least part of that is because I am getting older.
