Young people no longer say， “My hobby is listening to music．” The real voices of Generation Z who don’t actively listen to music “It’s not cost-effective” and “There’s no benefit to being knowledgeable about music．”
9/14 (Sat) 15:15 When asked “What are your hobbies?” one of the standard answers is probably “listening to music.” However, recently, it is young people of Generation Z themselves who say when introducing themselves that “there are very few young people who say that listening to music is their hobby.” The popularity of idols has increased worldwide due to the boom in fans of idols, and many people are attending their concerts and festivals. So why is this trend occurring? We asked for their real opinions. A male student (19 years old) from a university in Tokyo said, “It’s not cost-effective to have music as a hobby.” “Since I became a university student, I hardly have any opportunities to talk about music with friends. It’s like I haven’t been able to develop any relationships through music. So even if you become a music fanatic and become knowledgeable about Western music or indie bands, I think it’s not cost-effective as a hobby. The students around me also basically only listen to artists who are in the top 100 on subscription services like Apple Music and Spotify. Even when we had the opportunity to introduce ourselves during practice sessions or English classes, no one said, “My hobby is listening to music.” Instead, many students say things like, “I like K-pop idols,” “I’m a fan of Mrs. Green Apple,” or “I like King Gnu.” Other than that, I think people listen to their own idols, VTubers, anime idols, or other obscure stuff.” (Mr. A) Some people literally say that listening to music is not cost-effective from a financial standpoint. Mr. B (a 20-year-old student), who lives in a boarding house and works part-time at an izakaya in Tokyo, tells us: “I have the impression that being a music lover is expensive. If you sign up for a subscription, it will cost you at least 1,000 yen per month. In that case I’ll buy some cigarettes (laughs). If there’s a song that interests you, you can watch the music video for free on YouTube, and to be honest, if you know the songs and artists that are playing in the background music on TikTok, you can keep up with the trends. Please see the source for more details Previous thread ★1: 2024/09/14 (Sat) 19:25:58.26.
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When I listen to music on subscription services, they play my favorite songs one after another, so I can’t remember the song titles and artist names at all. I like listening to them, so it’s fine for me, but doing it just to share the latest trends with others seems like something Gen Z would do.
The headline is just saying that the comments from B are unnecessary because they can be seen on YouTube and TikTok. I guess they just want the fact that Gen Z is saying things like “bad value for money” and “bad typing”.
What a pitiful generation. They’re fools who sacrifice the present in pursuit of profit and loss calculations, cost-effectiveness, and time-saving features, even though there’s nothing in life to be gained by pursuing them. In life, the winners are those who enjoy it.
Actually, it should be good value for money, but since you can listen to the full album for free, it’s the artists who are the ones who are bad value for money.
Nowadays you can easily listen to music for free and it’s much more cost-effective than it used to be. Even if you pay for it, it’s only a small amount. I read it thinking that it’s one way of thinking, but. Cigarettes? That’s really not cost-effective.
>>13 These days, if you want to call music your hobby, you need to have instruments, DTM equipment, and a turntable. Analog records are a global fad. With the price of guitars soaring due to a wood shortage, music is starting to seem like a hobby for the rich.
Mizuki Shigeru Sensei rarely listened to music, but when he saw all the assistants at Mizuki Productions listening to music, he said, “People these days really love music.”
Unlike the days of records, cassettes, CDs, and MDs, people listen to music while watching videos on video sites, so it feels like that has become part of the evaluation of music. In the past, it was melody, rhythm, and lyrics. Now it’s even more about the video (MV). So it’s no longer about listening to music, it’s about watching videos.
Cost-performance-type spending is not something the generation that enjoys spending hours on super chat with vtubers, spending money on smartphone games, watching YouTubers going crazy for hours, or doing the octopus dance on TikTok, is saying.
Listening to music has been lame for fifty years now. It was good to hear from the core, so I don’t think the world has changed. First of all, what exactly is music appreciation? What exactly are you appreciating within it?
It’s proof that there isn’t much decent music out there these days. People of the Showa generation still listen to Showa era musicians. The rest is classical, jazz, and other instrumental music.
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