At a recent wedding my husband and I marveled at how many songs the bride and groom ( people in their 20’s’ ) chose to play were from the 1960’ or 1970’s. THIRTY to FORTY years before these kids were born! As I pointed out we had ZERO songs at our wedding from the 1920’s or 1930’s…which would have been the equivalent time span. And the…
At a recent wedding my husband and I marveled at how many songs the bride and groom ( people in their 20’s’ ) chose to play were from the 1960’ or 1970’s. THIRTY to FORTY years before these kids were born! As I pointed out we had ZERO songs at our wedding from the 1920’s or 1930’s…which would have been the equivalent time span. And their friends who were contemporaries enthusiastically sang along, knowing every word, to the now stadium participatory Sweet Caroline ( so did the old folks). Though the old folks were a bit perplexed by the participatory nature of Mr Brightside ( unless they are fans of UMICH football).
My point being old music seems to be more in the contemporary mind than before. Though I think you basically encouraged people not to pick the very funny Santos tweet. Though this was a very good set of tweets generally.
I think a big part of this is also the ghastly, indescribably horrible, unendurably awful state of most contemporary pop music. I refuse to patronize stores and restaurants that assault my senses with such detritus, especially when they switched to it from a format that passed for tasteful (why Weber Grill in Lombard hasn’t seen me since 2018, and never will again). The generational angle that you address here is also accurate. My son is 13 years old and his favorite bands are The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and Nirvana, all artists whose artistic zeniths were decades before he was born.
At a recent wedding my husband and I marveled at how many songs the bride and groom ( people in their 20’s’ ) chose to play were from the 1960’ or 1970’s. THIRTY to FORTY years before these kids were born! As I pointed out we had ZERO songs at our wedding from the 1920’s or 1930’s…which would have been the equivalent time span. And their friends who were contemporaries enthusiastically sang along, knowing every word, to the now stadium participatory Sweet Caroline ( so did the old folks). Though the old folks were a bit perplexed by the participatory nature of Mr Brightside ( unless they are fans of UMICH football).
My point being old music seems to be more in the contemporary mind than before. Though I think you basically encouraged people not to pick the very funny Santos tweet. Though this was a very good set of tweets generally.
I think a big part of this is also the ghastly, indescribably horrible, unendurably awful state of most contemporary pop music. I refuse to patronize stores and restaurants that assault my senses with such detritus, especially when they switched to it from a format that passed for tasteful (why Weber Grill in Lombard hasn’t seen me since 2018, and never will again). The generational angle that you address here is also accurate. My son is 13 years old and his favorite bands are The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and Nirvana, all artists whose artistic zeniths were decades before he was born.
Some of Gershwin's tunes were pretty darn popular: "Love Walked In", "Our Love is Here to Stay", etc.