How do I find new music now that I’m old and irrelevant?
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PJ Vogt
4.8 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We enlist a very overqualified person to answer this question, writer Kelefa Sanneh, author of Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres. Kelefa listens to more music than practically anyone on earth, and this week he breaks down how even a normal person can find new stuff when they feel like their ears have rusted.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is SirTenjin, I'm PJ vote. |
| 0:03.2 | Each week I try to answer a question I have about the world. |
| 0:05.6 | No question too big, no question too small. |
| 0:08.6 | This week, how do I find new music when I'm old and irrelevant? |
| 0:12.9 | We'll get into it after these ads. |
| 0:18.5 | We are living through a wild moment in American history. |
| 0:22.1 | There are conspiracy theorists on house committees, extremists on the Supreme Court, and near |
| 0:26.5 | fist fights on C-SPAN, and with an intense White House battle ahead, we need a better |
| 0:31.7 | conversation about the latest big election of our lives. |
| 0:35.4 | Hosted by four former Obama aides, Pod Save America hosts used their expertise to provide |
| 0:40.5 | listeners with a no bullshit guide to democracy. |
| 0:43.8 | Every week they break down all the political news that makes us laugh, cry, and scream |
| 0:48.3 | into the void. |
| 0:49.3 | Tell us, figure out what matters and what each of us can do about it. |
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| 1:25.8 | I always feel like a stoned college freshman when I try to bring this up, but would it be |
| 1:31.2 | okay for just a moment to admit that the idea of music doesn't really make any sense? |
| 1:36.0 | Like at some point, humans figured out that if you arrange strings a certain way, or if |
| 1:40.4 | you blow through a hollow wood correctly, sounds are made, I'm fine with that part. |
| 1:45.8 | The sounds feel good to hear, I get that. |
| 1:48.8 | But the fact that the sounds make us feel emotions, I have fundamentally never really gotten |
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