Grandma
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Cool never goes out of style.
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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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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.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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My grandma did none of those things.
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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.
Please love yourself.
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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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