So yeah I wanted to bring up this topic I have thought for some time, is the music getting slower? Now I don't mean by tempo of music, more like the mindset of listener:

Many times I have listened some song I recently found and I really like it, I feel like song would be very fast and filled with adrealine. When I'm playing the song myself it may feel hard and it feels like I play it too slow, but once I have listened song/band for some time and learned to play few of their songs it starts to sound a lot slower:

Some Examples: Blue Stahli - Takedown, oh my lord this song felt fast and epic when I first heard it. I pretty much spammed this song non stop and played it with my bass all the time. Then after few weeks I just got over it. Now when I listen it, I get feeling like this: "Wasn't the tempo on this song like a lot faster?" It really isn't any slower, I know it, but still I can't enjoy listening it as much when it feels so slow..

Same kind of songs are SiM-killing me and One Ok Rock - Kanzen Kaku Dreamer

 

Then classical and jazz music: So this is what I play lot with my trombone, the majority of songs that are harder that I normally play feel very fast even if tempo would be really slow, one reason maybe that trombone really isn't that fast instrument to begin with, but especially jazz songs: They get a lot slower once you get used to them and it kinda feels bad, like there would be piece taken away from song..

 

So I'm kinda curious to know if any of you guys have experienced same kind of thing.. I started to think this a while ago, but I can't myself to think any intelligent explanation..

When I listen to Cher Lloyd's "Want U Back" it feels awkwardly slow for me.

I start paying attention to the beat rather than her voice and I feel weird

Eh, I guess I can say that I've been feeling that way, too. The music isn't getting any slower, I feel like it's just me. I feel like time is getting slower, I dunno. :I

I feel like there is theory to this somewhere.

But the beat or tempo doesn't actually change in a song, rather we think it changes depending on what we are feeling.

To answer your question: Yes, this has happened to me before. It's weird.

I don't know precisely what you feel, but the human mind can be tricky. Sometimes, time seems to flow faster or slower in certain ocasions, and for certain people, so what you feel is probably normal. Sometimes when I closely pay attention to a song, it flows slowly ina way, but other times my mind is so full of thoughts that when I notice "Oh, it's over already?". It's not the same thing, but it's similar in a way.

So that's basically it, our mind works differently with time, and that pretty much happens to everyone. I don't think there are any definite answers more than this one I gave you, we just perceive things different after certain time or in different occasions because that's how our mind works...

So I hope I helped

According to recent studies, music has actually been getting more similar as time goes on. Your parents are right when they say "All music these days sounds the same" because it actually does.

It's more of a psychological thing, your mind becomes accustomed to the sound and beats because you can recognize them and the voice and understand the words the longer/more times you listen to it. So it's not really the song is getting slower, it is how accustomed you are to the song. Well, that's just my theory...

I know, the music isn't really getting slower as I said in my post: It's more like mindset of listener. Now when I think about it: The time always goes "faster" when you have good time. So it makes sense that when you listen music you like the time feels like it would go faster vica versa.

 

According to recent studies, music has actually been getting more similar as time goes on. Your parents are right when they say "All music these days sounds the same" because it actually does.

 

I know: Last year in my music's theory classes my teacher explained that people have already made all kinds of different songs and you can't make 100% tonal music anymore, because pretty much everything has been tried out more than once.

Of course people make atonal music aswell, but most of that is just weird, of course it sounds orginal cause you can do anything you want on it but those songs really doesn't make any sense (this is just my opnion though)