Grandma
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wrote on 5 Oct 2020, 22:42 last edited by George K 10 May 2020, 22:42
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wrote on 5 Oct 2020, 22:45 last edited by
Cool never goes out of style.
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wrote on 5 Oct 2020, 22:46 last edited by
Link to videoHaven't you guys heard? It's not cool to be cool anymore.
Thank goodness I'm 70 years old. I must've missed that.
So, IOW, it's cool to not be cool, unless you're not cool, which is cool.
Did I get that right?
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wrote on 5 Oct 2020, 23:28 last edited by
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wrote on 5 Oct 2020, 23:54 last edited by
What struck me about that meme is the references to the music.
My kids (and the youngest is 32!) all agree that the music of their generation sucks (for the most part). They'd rather listen to the music that I heard in my teens than the music they heard in their teens.
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wrote on 6 Oct 2020, 00:23 last edited by
My grandma did none of those things.
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wrote on 6 Oct 2020, 00:55 last edited by
That’s because you’re too fucking old.
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What struck me about that meme is the references to the music.
My kids (and the youngest is 32!) all agree that the music of their generation sucks (for the most part). They'd rather listen to the music that I heard in my teens than the music they heard in their teens.
wrote on 6 Oct 2020, 01:17 last edited by Aqua Letifer 10 Jun 2020, 01:19What struck me about that meme is the references to the music.
My kids (and the youngest is 32!) all agree that the music of their generation sucks (for the most part). They'd rather listen to the music that I heard in my teens than the music they heard in their teens.
Just because music isn't a fucking STEM field doesn't mean "it's all relative, man!" That's a child's understanding. There's patently more going on with most pop music from the 60s and 70s than there is with most pop music today. "Tom Sawyer" is a little annoying-sounding to me personally, but it's objectively and provably a greater achievement than Taylor Swift's "Reputation."
That's a music theory argument, and it's valid. But as for sociology, why is it that memes reference classic rock more than Cardi B? Why does every single live band in every single bar in the world play classic rock and not fucking Drake? Because modern mainstream shit is so great, right?
There are developmental psych reasons why the music we listened to in adolescence is so important to us. But that doesn't mean that newer music is better by virtue of it being newer. The arts can take steps back. It's happened many times before and clearly it's happening now. Thank the post-modernists for that shit.
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What struck me about that meme is the references to the music.
My kids (and the youngest is 32!) all agree that the music of their generation sucks (for the most part). They'd rather listen to the music that I heard in my teens than the music they heard in their teens.
Just because music isn't a fucking STEM field doesn't mean "it's all relative, man!" That's a child's understanding. There's patently more going on with most pop music from the 60s and 70s than there is with most pop music today. "Tom Sawyer" is a little annoying-sounding to me personally, but it's objectively and provably a greater achievement than Taylor Swift's "Reputation."
That's a music theory argument, and it's valid. But as for sociology, why is it that memes reference classic rock more than Cardi B? Why does every single live band in every single bar in the world play classic rock and not fucking Drake? Because modern mainstream shit is so great, right?
There are developmental psych reasons why the music we listened to in adolescence is so important to us. But that doesn't mean that newer music is better by virtue of it being newer. The arts can take steps back. It's happened many times before and clearly it's happening now. Thank the post-modernists for that shit.
wrote on 6 Oct 2020, 01:56 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Grandma:
What struck me about that meme is the references to the music.
My kids (and the youngest is 32!) all agree that the music of their generation sucks (for the most part). They'd rather listen to the music that I heard in my teens than the music they heard in their teens.
Just because music isn't a fucking STEM field doesn't mean "it's all relative, man!" That's a child's understanding. There's patently more going on with most pop music from the 60s and 70s than there is with most pop music today. "Tom Sawyer" is a little annoying-sounding to me personally, but it's objectively and provably a greater achievement than Taylor Swift's "Reputation."
That's a music theory argument, and it's valid. But as for sociology, why is it that memes reference classic rock more than Cardi B? Why does every single live band in every single bar in the world play classic rock and not fucking Drake? Because modern mainstream shit is so great, right?
There are developmental psych reasons why the music we listened to in adolescence is so important to us. But that doesn't mean that newer music is better by virtue of it being newer. The arts can take steps back. It's happened many times before and clearly it's happening now. Thank the post-modernists for that shit.
They play classic rock because they get paid for it. You could starve playing a lot of the new stuff..
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Grandma:
What struck me about that meme is the references to the music.
My kids (and the youngest is 32!) all agree that the music of their generation sucks (for the most part). They'd rather listen to the music that I heard in my teens than the music they heard in their teens.
Just because music isn't a fucking STEM field doesn't mean "it's all relative, man!" That's a child's understanding. There's patently more going on with most pop music from the 60s and 70s than there is with most pop music today. "Tom Sawyer" is a little annoying-sounding to me personally, but it's objectively and provably a greater achievement than Taylor Swift's "Reputation."
That's a music theory argument, and it's valid. But as for sociology, why is it that memes reference classic rock more than Cardi B? Why does every single live band in every single bar in the world play classic rock and not fucking Drake? Because modern mainstream shit is so great, right?
There are developmental psych reasons why the music we listened to in adolescence is so important to us. But that doesn't mean that newer music is better by virtue of it being newer. The arts can take steps back. It's happened many times before and clearly it's happening now. Thank the post-modernists for that shit.
They play classic rock because they get paid for it. You could starve playing a lot of the new stuff..
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wrote on 6 Oct 2020, 02:59 last edited by
There's lots of music being created today that's as good as what came out back then. But it's coming from the country music side. Thats where youll find the latest "classic rock".