Years ago in church the little kids “sang” a rap song about Jesus. I mentioned to a much older gal that I didn’t care for rap.
“Oh - the parent’s never have liked the kid’s music. Even mine!”
“What did your folks not like about yours?”
“Ours was ‘Big Band’. My parents were orchestra. They thought anything that had horns in it was the Devil’s music!”
That is all true, and good to keep in mind...the simple generational dynamics of it.
And there was a lot of mutual music dislike, too! Parents disliked the kid’s music, and the kids detested their parent’s music!
What I find generally unsettling is the fondness that many young people seem to feel for Sixties and Seventies music...I somehow feel it is abnormal for the young people to like that music.
It makes me think that there IS something wrong with music today (not just my codgeriness about young folks music!) and it makes me curious to think if there is going to be some kind of original and unusual music wave that gives them their own music...that they have been missing.