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Originally Posted by spike021
I went to the symphony today and, while I am a firm believer that there's nothing wrong with people my age enjoying such things, I had a moment to reflect in the lobby before doors opened when I noticed I was the youngest in the crowd... by a significantly large margin.. and I'm 25!! 
Eventually some younger people around my age showed up, at least by the end, but wow... My dad pointed out (mostly as a joke) that getting older is like a nicely aged fine wine, and that perhaps my age signals my nicely aged opinion of classical music.
Please dad, can I just be young AND enjoy classical music??
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Your Dad hit one of my trigger buttons!
Why the hell are we expected to change our tastes in things because we get older? WHY???
The especially applies to things like music. I get flak from a good buddy all the time because I still like the heavy stuff. He has transitioned into light jazz and string quartets because "At my age I can appreciate them". No, you changed because you feel that you need to prove how mature and sophisticated you are (in his case not everybody). He got rid of his 100s of hard rock albums because "I just find it noise now" and says I should do the same. BULLSHIT I hate that crap and feel no need to change because I am older.
There must still be young people in every generation that enjoy the classical stuff or it would be gone by now. Those "old people" now all come from the era where metal was born are not contemporaries to the generation that wrote the classics.