Music Banter - View Single Post - What do you think of this generation of music?

Zyrada · 08-05-2012, 08:46 PM

I always brace myself whenever I hear "this generation of music" or some variant of it used in a sentence, because I just know it's going to lead into a rant about how awful music is today and how "it just ain't what it used to be". And it's a teenager saying these things far more often than it should be. I feel like it's oh so very symptomatic of the obliviousness we as a collective generation have toward the tools we have at our disposal.

It's far too easy to take already-revered idols of the past, put them on a pedestal of your own, and wear them as a badge of social honor. I saw it all the time in high school with all the Led Zeppelin and Beatles t-shirts; there was so much of it that it practically came across to me as an unspoken courtship ritual. A lot of the "cool loser" types in high school I noticed loved to idolize old music.

Personally, while I have nothing but respect for my predecessors, a lot of music from decades ago just sort of falls flat for me. I suppose growing up with a family that worshiped classic rock didn't do me any favors on that front.

08-05-2012, 08:46 PM	#124 (permalink)
Zyrada Avant-Gardener Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Inside your navel gazing back at you Posts: 163	I always brace myself whenever I hear "this generation of music" or some variant of it used in a sentence, because I just know it's going to lead into a rant about how awful music is today and how "it just ain't what it used to be". And it's a teenager saying these things far more often than it should be. I feel like it's oh so very symptomatic of the obliviousness we as a collective generation have toward the tools we have at our disposal. It's far too easy to take already-revered idols of the past, put them on a pedestal of your own, and wear them as a badge of social honor. I saw it all the time in high school with all the Led Zeppelin and Beatles t-shirts; there was so much of it that it practically came across to me as an unspoken courtship ritual. A lot of the "cool loser" types in high school I noticed loved to idolize old music. Personally, while I have nothing but respect for my predecessors, a lot of music from decades ago just sort of falls flat for me. I suppose growing up with a family that worshiped classic rock didn't do me any favors on that front.