and ppl from our generation and a bit older dont force music on their kids anymore everybody has an ipod by age 6 no one is forced to sit through what mom & dad are listening to and ppl give up on kids before they try to put them on
plus when i was a kid in STL the local R&B radio station had 'Wayback Wednesdays' where they played nothing but R&B/Soul oldies all day. i got my education about older music from listening to that. then when i moved here it continued w/a similar radio show on Sundays here in Chicago.
who listens to radio now?
AND...of course. there were more samples of older music in then-current Hip-Hop. those records often sent me off in search of the sampled source music. i got much of my education about older music that way.
there's much less sampling of older music now. b/c it's much more expensive now than it was then.
brother sun below makes a good point but i don't think that's a majority of kids these days. most kids today are looking at youtube for music but they're looking for whats new not necessarily what's old unless prompted. like with missy performing at the Super Bowl then suddenly her sales and spotify spins went through the roof.
10. "I worked in a music program with "at-risk" youth about 2 yrs ago" In response to Reply # 9
I had the brightest hopes and expectations.
I had a playlist of classics, my whole ipod which I meticulously curated (and lost while I worked there) and did my best to expand them kids' horizons.
What I learned was that particular group of children weren't worth the effort. Good god. Giving them new music was like tryin to spit skittles through a human skull. They were willfully ignorant of anything that didn't come on Worldstar. My earnest fire to teach music to a new generation of children was quickly snuffed out by 45 preteen miscreants and some of their worthless parents.
by 2021, there will be no strings or voices. Just .wav files coupled with .gifs of oily butts.
4. "Kids know who Outkast is but they only know their big hit" In response to Reply # 0
They dont know Outkast the way we know them. So from that hit they either went to listen back to the rest or they didnt. A lot didnt.
But i think there is just soooo much access to music for everyone that its just really hard to know everything. Even the amazing stuff. Some people just want to like what they want to like. Its not like when we grew up and everyone else before us there was only a certain amount of music to consume. So it was really hard as a music fan to miss something even if u didnt like it. There werent bands that did it them selves and put out music on the internet and gained a shit load of fan bases and put out music videos all on their own. Now thats pretty much how everyone does it for the most part plus there is still the same machine pushing certain acts. Thats a lot of music to like or not like.
5. "Other generations had fathers..." In response to Reply # 0
It's hard to learn about something that an individual wasn't put onto by their parents. At the same time, this generation grew up with so much information at their disposal that it's hard to find the classics.
6. "Lol fuck you talking about?" In response to Reply # 0
From middle school (2006-2008) to high school (2008-2012) it was hard to find someone who didn't know about Tribe, Biggie, Wu tang, 2pac.
Shit, we use to sing Isley Brothers/Jodeci/Prince in class to piss substitutes off. We knew our ish.
If anything, the current generation knows more about your generation's music than you do. We can download your entire childhood in about fifty-leven minutes.
The days of "you don't know nothin bout this youngblood!" are over, plair.
I got someone's auntie catching feelings right now cause I wont let her borrow my Peabo Bryson cd.
You need to be studying your art, Kenji.
"They used to call me Baby Luke....but now? The whole damn 2 Liiiive Crew."
8. "it depends on the kid but i was gonna make this point too." In response to Reply # 6
my lil sister listens to a bunch of 90s r&b and has more access to that whole generation of music than i did even at the time because *I* was a kid at the time my access was limited to radio, video and whatever my older sister bought.
15. "sliding scale, bruh" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Feb-03-15 10:39 PM by hardware
i was born in 86 My parents were into popular music of their time which was 70s-90s
my taste doesn't reach farther than 1970 yeah i listened to earlier stuff because i could download it, but not much is in my current life's rotation past that aside from some of my grandma's blues
so it seems kinda ridiculous to expect folks born after 95 to be interested in anything past 1980
17. "Why is it ridiculous, though? We know about existence before then" In response to Reply # 15
Why wouldn't we have some cultural connection to the past? It's in our commercials, movies, TV shows, you have to actively shut it out not to hear it. So why put those blinders on?
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