Quote:Top 40 in the 1980's and early 1990's compared to now is much better. And it wasn't "all" just appealing to the LCD. I mean, something like Ice Ice Baby? Sure.....but there was also a lot of quality music on the top 40 back then,.....now? Yeah, I agree its pretty much ALL aimed at the LCD because too many younger kids today are sheep and most only like that certain LCD crap. Anything not like that cookie cutter LCD crap is seen as "uncool" and the majority of kids are scared to death to go against the grain and like music thats not like that type for fear of being tabbed as uncool. 

 

There was MUCH more variety in genre of mainstream popular music in the 80's and early 90's compared to today. 

 

 

Which is what your father said and his father before him and his father before him etc etc. You're a caricature.

 

When I look at pictures of my dad with his long hair and leather trousers going to rock concerts in the 70s and 80s, you can usually see him hanging around with a bunch of other men with long hair and leather trousers. When I look at pictures of my aunt in her punk days, she is usually hanging around with a bunch of people wearing a lot of denim with their hair dyed silly colors. Maybe each one of the men in leather trousers and each one of my aunts punk friends independently decided on their own that this look was ideal for them and set about creating their own style, only to discover, that shock horror, hundreds of thousands of other teens had made the exact same discovery.

 

Or maybe just like every other generation of humans they have had strong biological need brought on by millions of years of evolution to find a pack, blend in and assimilate. If you were different, well done you.

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