article_snippet.sent: If you're in your early 40s, own a flash car and have started listening to Taylor Swift and One Direction, you are likely to be having a midlife crisis.
article_snippet.sent: Staff analysed data and found users aged around 42 drop users usual playlists – which usually contain hits from users youth – in favour of today's chart toppers from the likes of Rihanna and Sam Smith.
article_snippet.sent: During the teenage years, we embrace music at the top of the charts more than at any other time in we lives.
article_snippet.sent: As we grow older, we taste in music diverges sharply from the mainstream up to age 25, and a bit less sharply after that,' explained the company on the company Insights blog. '
article_snippet.sent: we're starting to listen to "we" music, not "the" music.
article_snippet.sent: Music taste reaches maturity at age 35. '
article_snippet.sent: Around age 42, music taste briefly curves back to the charts — a musical midlife crisis and attempt to harken back to our youth, perhaps?'
article_snippet.sent: The findings come from a study conducted by Ajay Kalia, who oversees Spotify's 'taste profiles' product, which tries to understand people's tastes based on people listening habits.
highlights_snippet.sent: Staff analysed data and found users aged  
highlights_snippet.sent: 42 drop their usual playlists .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Start listening to today's chart toppers, such as Rihanna and Sam Smith .