Quote: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.

 

In those generations there actually were options to choose from in mainstream music genres, - hard rock, pop, dance, metal, punk, soft rock, alternative, disco, prog rock, R & B, rap, blues, hip hop, new wave, jazz, even some new age....

 

There was large numbers of people who would listen to many of those different genres, and songs from all of those genres became big. Variety. It was a great time for popular music. 

 

Nowadays, its mainly either hip hop, rap, dance, or growl metal. and thats pretty much it. Anything else is seen as "uncool" or corny by the sheep in that generation. 

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