Interesting data. I just disagree with the interpretation. It could be that teens are just new to the whole concept of music, of course they go to the first thi

Interesting data. I just disagree with the interpretation. It could be that teens are just new to the whole concept of music, of course they go to the first thing they hear about which is the currently popular stuff. Because by definition it's played in the main stream. That quickly (as the data showed) changes once they start to think about what they actually like. It's like, if you were new to programming you don't dive into some obscure lisp dialect to start off. You probably go with what is currently the most popular thing, the thing you were most likely to hear about first. Then as you age, you start being more adventurous and thinking for yourself about what you like. There is so much music out there, it isn't a one dimensional slider of bad to good. So with all that diversity, if people are exploring and making up their own minds, by necessity it won't be "popular" music.