pretty young girls dancing to them?
It could also be that there was much more variety and professionalism to be found in radio music up until the last decade or two. Said another way: Seen one Cardi-B Strip-Twerk&Cuss video, seen ‘em all!
These poor deprived kids. Then again, it took me a few years to realize the music my parents listened to was pretty cool, and timeless.
“It would be naïve to believe that we’re living in a world where the younger generation don’t know timeless anthems such as ‘Dreams’,...
I have no idea what song that refers to.
” or Bowie’s ‘Starman’ ...”
Hardly a well known Bowie song compared to others.
Corporate money and influencers.
And because no one need actually buy a record or CD or digital download it all makes money for the publisher just because people “did it” for 15 seconds.
>>>You don’t need us to tell you that TikTok now has a huge effect on the music industry.
As much influence as STDs and video game soundtracks
>>For Gen-Zers discovering these songs for the first time, it is no different to stumbling upon an up-and-coming band. Years on, these old songs are falling on fresh ears, judging them and connecting to them in the same way they would a new release, and adding it to their playlists regardless of its production date.
Nullshite
They are still only listening to a very narrow strip of music styles and even tracks by these artists, no deep cuts and certainly nothing decades beyond the “hip zone” (75-99).
They are programmed to respond. As they are in their political views which come from YahooooooNews and late night comedians and instagramg/twitter memes.