"Your friends and other people in your age group hate the new music so they only listen to music from when they were young."
Young people hate a lot of music made these days and listen to older music. It's not just a 'when I was young' thing anymore.
There's something very profound that comes from artists who make music, as opposed to a producer who makes some licks, a mediocre singer who belts it out, and a label that brands it.
When the brand/hype/marketing of the 'current flavour' dies down, what is left?
Music older than 4 years has to compete on its own merits, and most of it is forgotten, the better stuff hangs around.
Because music is ever more produced and less created, a lot of the stock today just stand the test of time.
When I was young you'd hear 50's music in the grocery store. Now you hear 80's music. But I think in 30 years we're still going to hear a lot of 80's music (and 60's, 70's and other eras) but the ratio of 'recently contemporary' to older music will be a lot lower.
Young people hate a lot of music made these days and listen to older music. It's not just a 'when I was young' thing anymore.
There's something very profound that comes from artists who make music, as opposed to a producer who makes some licks, a mediocre singer who belts it out, and a label that brands it.
When the brand/hype/marketing of the 'current flavour' dies down, what is left?
Music older than 4 years has to compete on its own merits, and most of it is forgotten, the better stuff hangs around.
Because music is ever more produced and less created, a lot of the stock today just stand the test of time.
When I was young you'd hear 50's music in the grocery store. Now you hear 80's music. But I think in 30 years we're still going to hear a lot of 80's music (and 60's, 70's and other eras) but the ratio of 'recently contemporary' to older music will be a lot lower.