Getting older and not enjoying new music is OK

As we age, nerve cells in the brain become less able to represent rapid fluctuations in sounds," Christopher Plack, a neuroscientist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong explained in his research paper Losing the Music: Aging Affects the Perception and Subcortical Neural Representation of Musical Harmony.

So there’s nothing wrong with your parents because they don’t like your music. In a way, it’s all part of the natural order of things.

But listening to a lot of music can strengthen your neural responses to music. So, the more you listen to music, the more responsive your neurons become.