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I must confess that I love Duran Duran. Always did, always will.
I must confess that I love Duran Duran. Always did, always will.
12 year old girls love, 20+ year old people hate
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LightPhoenix
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I still hear Avenged Sevenfold on the radio. It doesn't help that their drummer died. I'm sure that's a big reason their name has been out of the scene lately.
I've noticed a similar growing trend specifically in rock towards what I would call "pop-rock." There seems to be a homogenization of rock, punk, pop, and even hip-hop influences to create songs (and bands) specifically for radio play on "rock" stations. I wouldn't be surprised to discover that there are similar trends in country and rap as well, but I don't listen to those genres enough to be able to say as much.
As a classical music fan, I always elicit a shocked response from people when I say I don't like Mozart. Mozart basically was the pop music of his time, and to this day remains what I would consider classical pop music. While Mozart does have some excellent pieces, I find most of his work to be relatively homogeneous in the same way I find pop homogenized today.
There there now, it'll be ok.
Fast Learner
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I think it has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the music or anything like that. I submit that it has to do with the new usurping the old, with the old being whatever music you first fell in love with and the new being anything loved by tweens and teens.
The quality of the music is something mostly established by what was popular when you fell in love with the power of music (and its ties to that thumping in your loins that was just beginning to develop).
"Kids these days" disapproval is more than 2000 years old, with some Greek philosopher or another (don't remember who now) claiming that the youth of his day were spoiled rotten. Musical taste is just where "kids these days" strikes first.
The quality of the music is something mostly established by what was popular when you fell in love with the power of music (and its ties to that thumping in your loins that was just beginning to develop).
"Kids these days" disapproval is more than 2000 years old, with some Greek philosopher or another (don't remember who now) claiming that the youth of his day were spoiled rotten. Musical taste is just where "kids these days" strikes first.
nerfherder
Adventurer
Doug McCrae
Legend
The Bay City Rollers. The Osmonds seem a particularly good comparison to the Jonas brothers.
Thornir Alekeg
Albatross!
Well, I loved them as a kid and still like them today, although I thought they lost something when Andy Taylor left the band.
As for Rick Springfield; that was the first concert I ever went to. Not because I really liked Rick Springfield, but because it was the first concert in the town in which I grew up, after they built a pavilion at a park for them. It was a fun concert and hearing Rick Springfield songs on Back to the Eighties night brings back some good memories.
Bullgrit
Adventurer
The Greatest Hits CDs for both of these are literally in my truck CD player at this moment.
A lot of names have been thrown out in this thread, but really, were those artists reviled then as much as Bieber, Jonas, Cyrus are today? Every single time I've seen these kids mentioned, the reference is disparaging.
Granted, I don't see the same references that 12 year old girls see, and I've never specifically looked any of them up anywhere. What I've seen is just random mentions in random places. But for people to go to the extent to constantly make insulting comments about these kids -- to the extent that I, as a random non-12-year-old-girl, have never seen a single positive note -- strikes me as obsessive.
I don't remember hearing/seeing constant insults directed at the old tween idols. But then, maybe the current 12 year olds don't hear/see the constant insults directed at their tween idols.
Bullgrit
Thornir Alekeg
Albatross!
Part of this is also the fact that we didn't have the internet and multiple channels of 24 hour news and entertainment, so we were not as innundated with both the overexposure of these performers, or the resulting backlash.
Some 12 year old girls "graduated" to "hairspray metal" a few years later in the latter 1980's. Stuff like Poison, Warrant, later Motley Crue, Skid Row, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Europe, Winger, etc ...
Some younger relatives a number of years younger than me, were really into that stuff back in the late 1980's.
