Taylor Swift- (Generation me)

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

[glenshane]

@TheUlteriorMotive

60s, 70s, 80s, 90s were a period when pop music was synonymous with pop culture and youth and you had wave after wave of evolution of different genres in quick succession.

Music and the bands you liked was how you presented yourself to the world as a teenager/young adult and you said this is is me, this is what I listen to, how I dress, hairstyle etc - mods, goths, rockers, ravers, grunge, punk all had a look.

Now kids have the Internet, online forums, posting memes, videos and their social media channels to present themselves to the world and don’t need to really do it through music and what they listen to

In a similar vein youth fashion has largely atrophied - look at a photo of clothes in 1960 versus 1990 and huge difference. Look at clothes from 1994 to 2024 and the differences are far less noticeable.

There is also the fact that before Spotify record companies served as a gatekeeper of sorts for quality - for good and for bad - but it meant music was a viable career and a career you could get rich at if you “made” it. Now Spotify means it’s harder to make money from music and so it becomes a career for people who can afford not to have to make money doing it and once any culture becomes gentrified it too atrophies.

You will always get the exceptions, the flower that finds it’s way through the concrete and there are some great young bands out there but as a collective genre and expression of culture it’s become middle aged in the main and a legacy art form as we see now with all the greatest hits band tour and album anniversary appearances and the music being sold is majority back catalogue as a generation who thought they’d never get old don’t have to give up their youth.

So basically what you’re saying is they’re a bunch of stone-useless, uncultured dullards, fit for nothing only staring at screens and scrolling?

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Not at all. They’ve just found different ways to express themselves and the fact that those ways are alien to their parents is sort of the way it’s supposed to be since the invention of the teenager in 1950s

[backinatracksuit]

You could tell her all about the time you played in a local football match when you were only 15

[Feech_La_Manna]

The preponderance of evidence indicates that if you are a male Taylor Swift fan over the age of thirty, you likely have elevated estrogen levels and potentially a vagina. Reviewing the aforementioned posts and their contributors corroborates this assertion.

[Bisto]

@TheUlteriorMotive

Music and the bands you liked was how you presented yourself to the world as a teenager/young adult and you said this is is me, this is what I listen to, how I dress, hairstyle etc - mods, goths, rockers, ravers, grunge, punk all had a look.

Eh mate , have you seen the Swifties ?!

[backinatracksuit]

They just dress up for the gigs and go back to the uniform next day

Punk/goth/mod/mettaller were full time looks,

[glenshane]

@backinatracksuit

local

Provincial

[Fagan_ODowd]

@backinatracksuit

They just dress up for the gigs and go back to the uniform next day

Punk/goth/mod/mettaller were full time looks,

Pin on badges were a handy way to express an interest in music back in the day without going full metaller etc (ie your mother wouldn’t let you out of the house dressed like that)
Do kids still write the name of their favourite bands on their schoolbags, or etch them into the school desk with a compass?

[myboyblue]

@Fagan_ODowd

Do kids still write the name of their favourite bands on their schoolbags, or etch them into the school desk with a compass?

Jaysus. That takes me back

[farmerinthecity]

@Fagan_ODowd

Do kids still write the name of their favourite bands on their schoolbags, or etch them into the school desk with a compass?

There’s an app for that now.

[Bisto]

I’ve never seen anything like the worship for her . i find the whole thing a bit sad . Was talking to two principals the other day . The pressure on parents to get tickets for it was unreal . The amount of people who got scammed out of pure desperation. Parents who couldn’t really afford it in first place. 3 arena booked out just to sell her overpriced merch. she may as well have arrived with a milking stool.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

What’s going on here? I’m not sure I know one of her songs. Is it some sort of computer generated programme that has young girls absolutely hooked ? She doesn’t seem that good to me from what I’ve seen.

[myboyblue]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

I’m not sure I know one of her songs.

@BruidheanChaorthainn

She doesn’t seem that good to me from what I’ve seen.

[KinvarasPassion]

@backinatracksuit

When you’ve kids you need to hand over the controls of the music for car journeys etc, I’ve 4 daughters, 11 to 17,

You sound like you’ve lost complete control of the dressing room. By all meams… allow them their bit of soft harmless pop music but you need to respond in equal measure with your own musical tastes. Things may get tricky when you hear your youngest singing about ‘whores in my bed’ but plough on and fight your corner.

[StoneCold]

There was very little music claptrap when my auld fella was driving us to school. Strictly Morning Ireland in the morning or Drivetime in the evening. Sports then on a Saturday or Sunday.

Whatever Country and western show could be picked up on a local station then on a Sunday evening after a match was as much music as we got to listen to when he was driving.

[gilgamboa]

@KinvarasPassion

You sound like you’ve lost complete control of the dressing room. By all meams… allow them their bit of soft harmless pop music but you need to respond in equal measure with your own musical tastes. Things may get tricky when you hear your youngest singing about ‘whores in my bed’ but plough on and fight your corner

My young lad will get expelled from school when he does his latest party piece at the school Christmas concert

Simmer Down by Casper Walsh…he has the dub accent down and all

[Arthur]

What is it that separates Coldplay say from other music thats classed as ‘credible’ (arcade fire? the national?) you could easily swap a lot of their songs over and say one was by the other

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

@Arthur

What is it that separates Coldplay say from other music thats classed as ‘credible’ (arcade fire? the national?) you could easily swap a lot of their songs over and say one was by the other

Why does every generation have to hate on the next generations musical tastes? That’s what always amazes me.

I’m not really big into music but it always amazes me.
How much it annoys people.

[KinvarasPassion]

@StoneCold

There was very little music claptrap when my auld fella was driving us to school. Strictly Morning Ireland in the morning or Drivetime in the evening. Sports then on a Saturday or Sunday.

The ould fella aquired a Seamus Moore tape back in the mid 90s and we got some kick out of that.