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There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and the best song we've ever heard might still be out there.
  • Interesting. What did you listen to in your 30's? Do you remember it as vividly as you do the music you listened to in your teenage years? Can you sing along the same way? How will the music you listen to now compare when you're in your 50's?

    Not saying the music is objectively better or suitable for all points in life. Just pointing to studies saying teenagers have a huge emotional response to music. IIRC there have been studies showing dementia patients kind of wake up when you start playing music they listened to in their teens.

    It's "better = more suitable here and now" vs "better = more impactful" I guess.

  • There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and the best song we've ever heard might still be out there.
  • The best songs we've ever heard are the ones we listened to as teenagers. You'll never get a dopamine rush like that again.

    https://slate.com/technology/2014/08/musical-nostalgia-the-psychology-and-neuroscience-for-song-preference-and-the-reminiscence-bump.html

    Brain imaging studies show that our favorite songs stimulate the brain’s pleasure circuit, which releases an influx of dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and other neurochemicals that make us feel good. The more we like a song, the more we get treated to neurochemical bliss, flooding our brains with some of the same neurotransmitters that cocaine chases after.

    Music lights these sparks of neural activity in everybody. But in young people, the spark turns into a fireworks show. Between the ages of 12 and 22, our brains undergo rapid neurological development—and the music we love during that decade seems to get wired into our lobes for good.

  • Would you watch the earth form from nothing to the current time for 500.000 $?
  • "You won't age, everything freezes" implies my body (and brain) won't change. That is, I won't be able to form memories. So even if I experience it all "with all my senses", it will only be for that exact moment and then it will be gone.

    Like blinking and nothing has changed. You don't remember any of it. It's a bargain if you ask me.

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