Posted on 01/05/2015 12:41:05 PM PST by Red Badger
It's becoming more and more apparent that a new generational gap is forming. Whereas one generation didn't grow up with iPhones and high-speed internet, the newest generation sees these things as everyday commodities. It's natural for gaps like this to form, and with those gaps come plenty of hilarious consequences.
With how quickly technology is advancing, these gaps show themselves more frequently nowadays. There are the usual complaints (like 'those darn kids never put their phones down'), but it's really the disconnect between the two generations that stings. For instance, it seems unimaginable that the younger generation doesn't know who the Beatles are.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened this past week after a collaboration between Kanye West and the legendary Paul McCartney debuted. It's hard to imagine that McCartney would ever be 'discovered' by Kanye West, but according to Twitter, that's how it happened:
OVOJosh @OVOJosh Follow
I don't know who Paul McCartney is, but Kanye is going to give this man a career w/ this new song!! 9:27 PM - 1 Jan 2015
As is the usual, Twitter was soon overtaken with tweets about the aging Beatles star. Aside from the standard outrage, there were plenty of tweets that were obviously sarcastic: people trolling for a quick laugh at the younger generation's expense. That being said, many of the tweets asking who this 'Paul McCartney' guy was seemed legit:
Justin Morello @Morello_Justin Follow
Kanye West really knows how to expose great new talent. Bet this Paul McCartney guy is gonna be HUGE after this song. 8:12 PM - 2 Jan 2015
Cocolish @BeCoco77 Follow While seeing a story like this is still all sorts of sad, it's really just a byproduct of aging in a culture that glorifies a new celebrities seemingly every 15 minutes. Sir McCartney has seen something of a career revival over the past few years, and in the end, the older generation should just be happy that the newer, younger generation is being exposed to the legendary performer. After all, how many people went out and researched his music once all of this started? There are going to be hundreds of new Beatles fans once all of this is done; it's almost guaranteed. Even so, that doesn't stop tweets like this from summing up how we feel: There's a whole generation of people that think Kanye is about to make Paul McCartney a super star. Epic fail folks. End times are near. 8:33 AM - 5 Jan 2015
Doubtful. But somebodies gotta believe.
Are you hearing it on popular radio stations or classic rock stations? Are the places you’re hearing Beatles also playing Kanye? We live in a subculture world, things don’t necessarily mix that much. Though I still think most of these folks are leg pulling.
1915 was not a fair comparison
How would a group get huge with no radio? People were still buying sheet music for home entertainment!
“Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe”
Is it on Youtube? :p
Yup, leg pulling:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6429435/kanye-fans-asking-who-is-paul-mccartney-joking
I always thought they were a rail carrier now rolled up into Burlington Northern.
(Though I do know something about the song—there’s a radio station in Dallas that plays classic rock)
I see ads for some TV series about black music producers or something but the music running with the ad is Ozzy Osbourne.
Revelation Mother Earth (From Blizzard of Oz back in the 80s)
I’m gonna have to pay more attention to the Empire commercials. Still not watching the show though.
Yes, as I said the changes in communications media will impose a different cultural scenario.
Only on moldy oldie stations that play yesteryear's hits (and they've now scoped away from the songs of the 50s, playing 60-70s-80s).
Rock of today is unlikely to even be heard on radio these days.
And if number of stations for a format indicate popularity then Tejano (on AM and FM) is huge, bigger than either modern rock or classic rock combined.
‘Sir McCartney’ ?
-JT
Who the hell is Kanye?
You are both correct, a railroad, and a Youtube classic:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=atchison+topkeka+and+the+santa+fe
I like the one with Judy Garland’s album cover. Man, did she look hot ! Thanks, to both:)
I thought, "50 years??? That can't be right! A half-century?". I googled it and the Rolling Stones band was formed in 1962! 53 years ago! Holy moly!
Taking Chicago as an example, the most listened to radio station is WVAZ - which is ‘urban adult contemporary’. No Beatles records are played there I assure you.
In those days when radio and the recording industry were just getting started, you didn't have popular recording groups in the same way you did later.
Probably the equivalent would be a successful songwriter like Irving Berlin. I suppose 60s kids did have an inkling of who Irving Berlin was -- more from the movies and Christmas songs than from his earliest tunes -- but they probably didn't much care.
Of two alternatives -- everybody being fixated on the popular culture of 60 years back or young people never learning who Paul McCartney was -- the latter may actually be better. The problem is that they also never learn some things that are a lot more important.
"2014-"Paul performed the closing concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on Thursday night where Giants and 49ers fans said goodbye to the stadium after more than 50 years"
2014-"Legend: Sir Paul, 72, rocked the Dodgers Stadium on Sunday evening performing many of his iconic hits and new material"
"Kanye West 'hopes to collaborate with Paul McCartney on upcoming album'"
DailyMail August, 2014.
“George Bush hates Black people.”
Kanye West
HD Radio is your friend here. Also, Infinity Broadcasting puts up its digital radio feeds on the Internet.
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