I'm 23 and already at that stage. My generation is shit; no bones about it. If you can get someone my age to listen to a song for more than 12 weeks, you're a wizard. The attention spans are so short now, that each song bores everyone instantly. But really, it's essentially the same songs played ad infinitum:
-I love you and we're happy (pop/country/r&b)
-I love you but you left/I fucked up/X happened and we're not happy (pop/country/r&b)
-I'm drinking and doing drugs/at the bar/in a club and we're happy because we don't value our future (pop/rap/rock)
-The material goods I have are price exorbitantly, but I don't care because I make such an obscene amount of money (rap/pop)
-I am the superior male to you in every way; try to denounce me and I'll kill you (rap)
-Everything sucks. I'm suicidal and it's everyone else's fault (rock)
I can count on one hand the friends I have that are my age. Everyone I grew up with just assumes I'm an alien because I don't use social media, I listen to Nick Drake and Sade, I talk about grad school instead of bar hopping, and I drive a 3/4 ton. Having said all that, indie rock and indie electro (read: "hipster music") are favorite genres of mine, and genuine hard rock is only getting better, so it's not all lost.
Last edited by ZERO THEORY; 08-24-2013 at 17:04.
I've got two kids your age (21 and 25) and I seriously doubt either one of them has heard a single song all the way through. Seems like they will start a song and then, about half way through, get bored with it and switch to another song and then do the same thing.
I think that "Attention Deficit Disorder" stuff just might be a real condition after all.
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"when you're happy you enjoy the melody but, when you're broken you understand the lyrics".
I enjoy good music from classical, country, heavy metal, easy listening, to old school rock & roll. One thing I can't stand is rap. The closest I've ever come to listening to rap was Kid Rock. Not sure that qualifies. Regardless, you can't spell "crap" without "rap".
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