I think my favorite kind of person is the sort who loves Hendrix and the Dead because they pushed so many boundaries and were so radical, but who also think that most music made since then is just noise, and that the kids today are stupid to like it.
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Replying to @SethCotlar
You’ve just described a huge swath of the Baby Boom generation.
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Replying to @gorskon @SethCotlar
You’ve just described a huge swath of YouTube comments. It’s very common among Boomers but basically it’s whatever musical and sexual standards were leading-edge when you were 16-20 (whether that was 1968 or 2008) and everything since is Goddamn Kids These Days.
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Replying to @stannieholt @SethCotlar
Yeah, I don’t think this trait is in any way unique to Boomers. Basically, your popular music taste tends to be set when you’re in your teens and 20s, and for most people it doesn’t evolve much after that.
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That’s why Boomers’ parents were complaining about that noise their kids were listening to. Ditto parents in the 1950s with Elvis, parents in the 1940s about swing and Sinatra, parents in the 1920s about jazz.
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I was starting to fall into that trap myself. What got me out of it was subscribing to Apple Music. When I could listen to almost anything at no cost more than I was paying anyway, I became much more adventurous and discovered a lot of great new music.
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It’s funny. I used to want to own all my music, but since I signed up for a streaming service I love it.
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