Is today's generation really that ignorant?

[Woops]

On a "hot or not" game on some hip messageboard, I posted 'Hanna Barbera' (defunct animation company) and somebody posted something like "Never Heard Of Her". Also posted a thread about Janet Jackson's latest song, which only got a few replies.

Nothing new, but that messageboard is mostly hip 20 somethings and teenyboppers that act as if music didn't exisit untill 1999  and look at Britney as a legend.


Originally, I wanted to showcase older pop/rock music, but the majority of the threads end up getting ignored and have comments like "Who's ____?" or "Never Heard of Them". Especially with mini bios and song links.

As for artists like Mariah Carey & Green Day, they only list their recent songs as their favorites. Though strangely, my thread about U2 didn't get any replies. Heck,  a recent Natasha Bedingfield thread I posted only got about 4 replies and she's a current artist.


Rather not talk about the Deb bashing and  the nasty reponses about my rants (about four threads)/comments on how the music industry is a vast cesspool with manufactured pop acts...


Another thing is that the messageboard is about an actress, which I find her OK and have some potential (though could end up typecasted), but also became a pop singer and appeared in a bad tv movie series.

Oddly, The Spice Girls reunion thread had many replies and many members wax nostalgia on the pop act.


The most topics on the music section are about emo, Jonas Brothers, Ashlee Simpson, Kelly Clarkson (though she's OK), Disney Channel products, and a certain pop singer with the intials BS.


Why do I still post?

I usually post  on the board (board) games time to time and a few current artists I like (ie Fergie, Natasha Bedingfield) that probably wouldn't get replies on some nostalgia board. Probably like about twice a week with a few posts...depending on the threads.

Most  on another board I visit are into classic rock, emo, new wave/alternative, and Top 40. Also most appear to be more into celebrity bashing/gossip and politics.

Though I mostly post on the board (bored) games and a few threads on that as well since there's many members that like to post immature/rude comments and act as if they're snobby music critics


edited: the Janet "Feedback" thread had more than two replies, though not a lot

[Out of the Blue]

Yes they are.  For the most part anyway.  They just have no concept of music or pop culture history.  When my generation was in its teen years we were criticized for not having a clue about the history of music but we had more than today's teenagers do.  As we got older we learned more.  I'm not sure that this generation will ever gain that knowledge though.  They just seem terribly apathetic and believe that pop music was invented in the year 2000. 

[sweetsangria]

That is why parents should be in charge of picking out music for their kids. Mine do
and I don't have a problem with it.

[Woops]

Agree, though it depends if the kids are open minded  or been expose to a variety of music at a younger age since most usually prefer what's "in" rather than the music their older siblings, parents are into. 

Also the blame could be that MTV/VH1 doesn't air music videos or music relating programming and only kiss up to certain artists/bands .  And lack of variety in radio stations and oldies stations in brink of obscurity.

I've been exposed to music from watching VH1/MTV specials (especially '80's music video showcases), researching on the internet, and also going through record stores.

Also from hearing pop songs on the radio, television, and movies in the early 1990's, when I wasn't yet into popular music until the later 1990's.

[Woops]

One thing that puzzles me is that there's actually people who think Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, etc. are from their generations (ie 70's, 80's, 90's), but they were created in the early/mid 20th century and made for theatres. There was a comment from somebody who thought Tom & Jerry were made in the 1980's and didn't know they existed since the '40's.  No joke.


Even as a kid I could tell they're from the past since most feature technology (ie early phones and cars), pop culture/topical referances like certain celebrity caricatures, music, politics/Great Depression/WWII, and that the animation is much "fuller" compared to limited animation on television cartoons. Also black & white  cartoons are very obivious.

[Dariusz]

The original posting is kind of ironic. I go waaay back to the 1950's for decent music, even classical music which is even further back. It's the "modern" (2000's) stuff which I know little about, because I listen to a bit of it, and it's absolute garbage. The amount of singles I've bought in the 2000's can literally be counted on one hand it's that bad. The record industry has only itself to blame for the dire state of it's industry (and they should stop blaming piracy for their lack of releasing decent music).

[Out of the Blue]

Most of the music that I've bought in the last few years was released about 20 years ago.

[Woops]

Only Natasha Bedingfield's albums and compilation CDs featuring older pop/rock songs. Also older CDs I find.


Rarely listen to the radio since Top 40 is  garbage and other stations only play the same ol' songs over & over...

[Woops]

On the "hip" forum, nobody posted anything about Issac Hayes' passing...

The irony is that I recall that several are fans of "South Park", which he provided the voice for Chef for several seasons.