I think of what other generations (the ones preceding me) thought of the guys I consider musical heroes

at least they couldn't front on someone like MJ too much
you could see his forebears in his moves, without really copying what they did

I'll give a lot of the latter-day generation credit though
when I look up some random song I have on MP3/CD anyway on Youtube, it's usually some 18, 19, 20something up there with the geezers on some "WTF?! Why don't they make music like this anymore"

I think that some get it. Rather... the thrill of what it meant to be a star in the music business. What it meant to "count" (to use a maxxx term).

I'd love to see what happens in the future with the FULLY Internet generation. This and the David Bammer post re: the lost music of the 2000s, has me thinking about that a lot more than usual.