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Most kids these days are borderline retarded. They all have anxiety issues because their parents shoved a tablet in their hands instead of a book. They all vape. They listen to the WORST music that is all remixes from the 80s and 90s with chipmunk sped up voice. I don't hate them, but I couldn't give a shit what Gen Z or Alpha thinks of me.
As a millennial, chill out dude. First, the chipmunk music thing is just a way to sneak music past DMCA filters. Second, who the fuck cares about any of that? As long as they're generally good people, which they seem to be, what does their taste matter? It's not like any other generation was much better.
ok oldie
To be fair, the 80's and 90's were arguably the best eras for some genres, just NOT the ones they are listening to.
Talking namely house, techno, trance. I still bump Blake Baxter, Richie Hawtin, Fatboy Slim, Cocooma, Darwin, The Prodigy, because that shit was fucking awesome. If you listen to the top tracks of some of those genres now, they feel completely soulless in comparison, ESPECIALLY when it comes to happy hardcore. Some of the others have mostly stayed the same with some improvements.
I've never understood the frustration with what strangers are listening to. As long as it's not being played on obnoxiously loud speakers, who cares? If the volume is that loud, I don't really care what the genre is, tbh.
If music never adapted and evolved, practically no music would exist today, and that even includes most (if not all) old classical music. Beethoven would be unknown. There's no way that rock music would exist.
Ah, it's also a timeless thing. Anything liked by newer generations is bad, because new=bad. There was even push back when rock music first came out. I also don't understand the "specfic genre-only" mindsets, either. If you like it, you like it. So what if it's out of your normal scope? There's music out there for every mood. If you don't like it, cool. There's a whole world of other things to listen to instead.
There are also various reasons that people listen to music. Soulless music is great for studying, because it's easier to not want to dance to. Noise music can help drown things out. Some music can help validate how you're feeling, and some songs are just earworms. Certain songs might bring nostalgia, or they might hype you up.
Life is short, enjoy what you can, especially if it's something that's just to yourself. Why limit yourself based on the opinion of someone who doesn't even have to hear what you listen to?