Found this over at Andrew Sullivan's site. Makes me realize I really have no idea who is in contemporary pop music these days. I still spend most of my time with classic rock of the 1970s, and now that's 35 years old... damn. Now I know what my dad must have been thinking when I was laughing at 1950s music during high school.
Oh, and Happy New Year. I find it strange that it's 2010, and yet there's no supercomputer operating an orbiting space station overhead, and no black monolith has been found on the moon.
Kids these days...
Posted by: Freddie | 01 January 2010 at 07:38 AM
Me too J, me too (And Roy Scheider still sweating the cold war)
Posted by: NVH | 01 January 2010 at 10:35 AM
I had the opposite opinion. I was supervising a couple of interns over the summer, and the playlist on their iPods made me break into "I remember seeing them at XYZ music festival before the lead singer died...". A lot of 1980s stuff, some 1990s.
The kids seem a lot more willing to consider older rock music than I was at their age. My reaction was "go get your own music" rather than "I've never heard of that stuff".
As an op-ed in the Financial Times by Chris Caldwell noted this weekend, the Beatle's "Love Me Do" is closer timewise to World War I than it is to the present day. The Sex Pistol's "Never Mind the Bollocks" is now closer to the end of WW2 than we are today.
Change is slowing down, not increasing.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of the Great Satan | 04 January 2010 at 11:35 AM