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Meh. The kids these days don't know nothin'! Bah! Why I oughta...

Beth

Diana Duncan <art2mis AT nc.rr.com> wrote:

>
>On Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003, at 11:14 US/Eastern, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
>> On this theme, I'm not sure it's just world events that the younger
>> generation doesn't know about.  A friend of mine and I were in a
>> bike store a few weeks ago looking at stuff and the song "More Than a
>> Feeling" came on.  I asked him if he could name the band and he got
>> this blank look on his face.  Ok, I thought to myself, I'll just tell 
>> him.
>>
>I don't know whether to be ashamed or proud of the fact that I 1) could 
>name both bands immediately with no thought required and 2) started 
>singing the song, and still can't get it out of my head.  And yes, I do 
>remember many of the lyrics.
>
>Jeremy also mentioned the bad music of our era.  I'd like to posit that 
>every era has bad music, art, theatre, writing, etc., and that only the 
>strong survives. Current classical music repertoires do not include 
>Salieri, for instance.
>
>There is also lots of great stuff out there right now that never gets 
>the exposure required to become part of pop culture.  And nowadays pop 
>culture has become so departmentalized that it's difficult to know much 
>about more that one or two genres.  I'm more worried about how little I 
>know about what's going on right now than I am about how little younger 
>people know about culture from when I was in my teens. :)
>
>Diana
>
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