nah, there is enough room in their little brains for old and new stuff to coexist
My tweenager was singing a Frank Sinatra song yesterday and another is deep into 70s/80s British punk. Everything is “in” all the time now.
This is true as long as you give them the space to explore and enjoy newer music without being a raging asshole about it.
Me, handing my daughter an old Nirvana t-shirt: “I bet nobody in your class has anything as cool as this.”
Daughter, rolling her eyes: “Vintage Nirvana t-shirts are so two years ago, dad. Everyone is wearing Nickelback now.”
Whoa, that escalated quickly.
Are they speeding-running the 90s?
I will say it is incredibly gratifying when my daughter has friends over and they go through my records to put some music on and are surprised that I have albums from bands that they think are obscure; Weezer, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Deee-Lite, Pearl Jam, Daft Punk and etc.
“Oh my gawd, you know of Weezer?”
“Yeah, I actually saw them on tour for that album”
To them it is obscure… reminds me of when I was their age going through my friend’s parents collections and thinking the same about Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Kraftwerk, Toots and the Maytals and etc.
Funny how life can have that kind of symmetry sometimes.
I think 30 years is about right for trends to go from popular>boring>outdated>forgotten>rediscovered again by a future generation.
The coolest people I know are the ones who were exposed to a diverse mix of cultures and experiences during there formative years. Wonderfully weird and unique. Being obsessed with nothing but your own generation is lame, not to mention close minded.
Check my other comment. Culture was far more limited. In any case, we were all backwards compatible for a generation or two.
Kids have so much media today I can’t see how they have a cohesive experience, how they’ll reminisce amongst themselves. I was familiar with pop-culture, movies, music, all that, from the Silent Gen through Millennial.
GenX for example; We only had a few dozen popular bands, way fewer TV shows and movies, all that. Don’t care if you liked Metallica or The Cure, you were familiar enough.
Few years ago I was sitting around camp with my neighbor who 19 at the time.
“Hey man, you feel like we’re in a Vietnam movie?”
“Um.”
“It’s dark, rain’s dripping of the trees, humid, kinda looks like jungle, <holds up my AR-looking .22> I got a rifle and got a 12-gauge, we’re sweaty, CCR is blasting on the speaker.”
“Honestly I’ve never heard any of the songs you played tonight.”
“NEVER?! Dude, this was my dad’s music! Everyone’s heard this!”
Guys, this was my 60s playlist with nothing but the most popular and well-known songs.
It’s not that he’s young, I was familiar with my grand parent’s music (and it fucking sucked, and so did their taste). Young people just have so much to choose from they can carve out their own bubbles and not see or hear other stuff. No idea if this is good or bad.
The monoculture hasn’t been a thing for a while.
I deeply related to Steely Dan’s “Hey Nineteen” by the time I became a teenager myself
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