Is it normal to lose your passion for music?
When I started getting into music as I kid in the early 00s, I had a great time hearing all different kinds of artists going back to the 50s, and as time went on my taste rapidly expanded and music became my passion as I collected albums and learnt songs on a guitar.
But now, I'm steadily losing this passion. While I still enjoy listening to music from time to time, I feel like the magic of music, especially rock music, has really worn off. I feel like the only one who is totally fed up with almost everything to do with music and music culture. The repetitive radio, the biased, predictable lists of the "best" songs and albums posted all year round, music magazines that cover the same artists over and over, snobby music elitists and genre fandoms, awful music videos, rock band rivalries, overused songs in TV shows, movies and ads, constant arguments over genres and subgenres, televised music talent shows, festivals like Glastonbury that just won't die and more. It's all so overrated in my opinion.
I've become so bitter towards music that my taste in it is now slowly receding. I'm listening to fewer and fewer artists. I'm fact, I'm actually having more fun listening to instrumental music, classical and world music now. Call me a hipster but I'd honestly rather listen to some anonymous guy playing the piano than any of those "edgy" cock rock bands singing about getting laid or anything on the radio. I feel like there's no point to most music anymore. I'm sick of so many different songs and bands, sick of feuding music fans, sick of music critics, sick of celebrity musicians and their controversial personal lives. Music doesn't feel like it's worth anything anymore.
Does else feel the same way, or is it just me?