Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.
Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.