Has music a date of expire?

A song is played in the car and someone says, "That song is very old! Put something more modern!

And it is when a thought comes to your mind, is music a consumer product? Does songs have an expired date?

Reading on the Internet about this phenomenon, it seems that several psychologists have investigated the subject, reaching the following conclusion:

¨We listen to songs because they have a certain momentum or hyper that we like, but once we are able to memorize and anticipate those moments, we get bored to the point of horror and we are not able to endure them anymore¨ ...

Developing this, I feel there are some conclusions we can think about:

- Then, does it mean that, the more complex the music is, the more complicated it will be to memorize those moments and the longer that moment of "suddenness" can last in time, and at the same time, make the music endure more on time?

Most probably.

These seem to me to be very interesting information for musicians that are professionals on the field, and can help us to delineate certain conclusions,

"...Maybe, an average listener can have the same music on the radio 24 hours without being disturbed because he does not have the ear developed enough anticipate the musical movements of the same.."

In this case, it is true that music becomes an element of consumption and an expiry date: the hit will have a limit, and it will be the time a listener delays in memorizing the rounds of the song and feel bored with them.

Subsequently with this them is has interesting applications for students or music professionals:

Music with general patterns, should have a limited space for a professional musicians, as the student/professional hears - practices and listens to them a lot more than an average person ( for instance, I - IV - V , Broken candence, Tonic substitutions, Dominant Tensions..) during his training, so he can evolute the language for their own compositions, performances, or improvisations to something more elevated.

Therefore, is has another application in the case of a jazz professional. For instance, a professional jazz musician can deeply despise a song like "All of me" even if it is a jazz song, if it does not have a harmonic arrangement that goes out of the ordinary, since the original has it extremely over-listen, by them.

Continuing with this, it makes me think about other styles of music which is so much on the upfront these days,

Electronic Music:

Electronic music has a close relationship with technology, and is in a different space than traditional music because, although harmony and music are part of the songs, the way to handle the sound becomes a fundamental element. So, as more modern is the sound desing technique used, more interesting it might be.

Also the encreasing mix of electronic music - elements with other genres of music give us a new element to enjoy that aparts as from the classical elements of harmony - melody and opens a new interesting path to consider.

So, as a conclusion this is how I feel about all of this:

- Music is a consumer element in certain circumstances and it is important to know what kind of music you make and what the purpose of it is. Then you will be able to create the music that has the elements you need to satisfy the ears you want.

-Commercial music is limited-consumption music, and will survive the time required by the average listener to memorize the trick or patron.

-Ear training, once again, is the one most important skills to be developed by a musician. The sooner he reaches a greater ear with simpler patterns, the sooner can he create and compose at a higher level, which will allow him to access, in principle, more skilled circus and listeners, but above all, to get in or out of the chain of consumer music (as preference) and to perish in time for the enjoyment of subsequent generations.

I think this is an interesting reflection and give us an interesting point of view towards the debate of streaming music vs. academic music