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the reason it doesnt feel the same anymore is because you're growing old
the best music is the music you grew up with
objective musical quality has very little to do with it, hard to even quantify what exactly constitutes "good" popular music

>Krumhansl, C. L., & Zupnick, J. A. (2013). Cascading Reminiscence Bumps in Popular Music. Psychological Science, 24(10), 2057-2068.
>Renwick, J., & Woolhouse, M. H. (2023). Reminiscence bump invariance with respect to genre, age, and country. Psychology of Music, 51(4), 1349-1365