The funny thing, most of the stuff you probably like was adolescent music once. You'd be bitching about Sinatra if this were 1940.
For the most part, before the 1940's adults and children all listened to the same music. There were exceptions but everyone hummed the music of the day and also knew a wide variety of different music from church hymns, latin masses, Irish drinking songs, Italian quartet music, Polish polkas...There was depth and breadth to the knowledge.