{"id":80518,"date":"2025-12-08T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80518\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:00:31","slug":"how-lubbocks-music-preferences-reflect-national-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80518\/","title":{"rendered":"How Lubbock’s Music Preferences Reflect National Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you live in Lubbock<\/a>, this new poll won\u2019t shock you one bit: one in four Americans ALWAYS have music playing, and based on my experience driving around the Loop, it\u2019s absolutely at least one in four Lubbockites.<\/p>\n

\"93.1<\/p>\n

Seriously–I can\u2019t even get through the Chick-fil-A drive-thru without hearing three different genres coming from three different cars. Country from the truck ahead, Tejano from the Tahoe behind me, and whatever the heck Gen Z is listening to blasting from the Civic beside me.<\/p>\n

But the survey confirms it:
23% of people listen to music almost all the time, and that number jumps to 36% for young folks, who have quite literally not taken off their headphones since last Christmas. Half the teens at South Plains Mall are out there walking around like NPCs in AirPods.<\/p>\n

Spotify Wrapped Drops, and Lubbock Residents Pretend They\u2019re Not Embarrassed<\/p>\n

Since Spotify Wrapped<\/a> just dropped, the survey also asked people if they\u2019d be embarrassed for their friends to see their top tracks.<\/p>\n

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Nationally, 31% say they\u2019d be excited, and only 3% would be embarrassed.
In Lubbock? Let\u2019s be real–we\u2019re all excited until we see what we actually listened to.<\/p>\n

It starts out like:
\u201cWow, look at me, discovering new artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then it turns into:
\u201cWhy is \u2018Neon Moon\u2019 my #1 again?\u201d
\u201cWhy did I listen to that one Taylor Swift song 487 times?\u201d
\u201cWhy did I listen to Wang Chung last May?\u201d<\/p>\n

Because you\u2019re unique. That\u2019s why.<\/p>\n

Did Our Tastes Change in 2025? Ehhh\u2026Not Really.<\/p>\n

One in four people say their music taste evolved this year.
The rest of us? Nope. Still listening to the same stuff, still cranking up the volume on Slide Road, still pretending we totally meant to listen to that much REO Speedwagon.<\/p>\n

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Here in Lubbock, we don\u2019t change our music tastes–we just change the speakers we blast it on.<\/p>\n

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Gallery Credit: Buddy Holly Hall<\/p>\n

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Gallery Credit: Landon King<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you live in Lubbock, this new poll won\u2019t shock you one bit: one in four Americans ALWAYS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-80518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}