i just…
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@blogdiva I really appreciate Grace Slick for her perspective (from a while ago)
“All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire”
“There’s something about old people singing rock ’n’ roll lyrics that bothers me – it just doesn’t match”.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/grace-slick-rock-stars-should-retire-at-50/
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@tmiller me neither. but goes to show who Jagger & Richards thinks is the youth.
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i just…
look: am 60 years old yet this composite photograph of McCartney, Jagger, Richards and Smith is still fucking weird.
Robert Smith, a baby baby boomer, is the baby in this picture.
the chokehold the WHITE silent generation and baby boomers have on YOUTH culture is absolutely surreal.
The Rolling Stones & Beatles were hip in an era that is long gone. they are now part of the #EpsteinClass #gerontocracy and we should stop pretending they aren’t social and cultural anachronisms.
@blogdiva 63 here and completely agree.
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i just…
look: am 60 years old yet this composite photograph of McCartney, Jagger, Richards and Smith is still fucking weird.
Robert Smith, a baby baby boomer, is the baby in this picture.
the chokehold the WHITE silent generation and baby boomers have on YOUTH culture is absolutely surreal.
The Rolling Stones & Beatles were hip in an era that is long gone. they are now part of the #EpsteinClass #gerontocracy and we should stop pretending they aren’t social and cultural anachronisms.
@blogdiva I'm still waiting for 80s and 90s music to be over.
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@tmiller me neither. but goes to show who Jagger & Richards thinks is the youth.
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@blogdiva Do the young ones even go see the Stone's? I'm 49 and it would never occur to me to pay to see one of my parents bands?
I'm not sure about the over 50 rockers thing though, I'd pay to see just about any of the 90's skate/pop punk bands and most of them are over 50 or really close to it.
@VW_Guy @blogdiva I don't think young folks go to see the Rolling Stones.
I don't think this is a problem. I mean, look at the Superbowl Half-Time show. Almost every year, the NFL books someone that Superbowl viewers hate, in a desperate long term campaign to get younger people to watch.
The NFL is desperate for viewers that aren't dying off, and has been for decades. If Superbowl viewers had their way, they'd be watching dinosaurs like the Stones every year.
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@VW_Guy @blogdiva I don't think young folks go to see the Rolling Stones.
I don't think this is a problem. I mean, look at the Superbowl Half-Time show. Almost every year, the NFL books someone that Superbowl viewers hate, in a desperate long term campaign to get younger people to watch.
The NFL is desperate for viewers that aren't dying off, and has been for decades. If Superbowl viewers had their way, they'd be watching dinosaurs like the Stones every year.
@VW_Guy @blogdiva If older acts still perform, to the delight of older fans, then ... so what? That's been a thing for as long as I remember.
In the meantime, younger folks will find what they like, and it won't just be older established performers.
There's a legitimate argument to be made that mainstream music composition has been stagnating, though. I don't know how valid that is, or how much of a "problem" it is.
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i just…
look: am 60 years old yet this composite photograph of McCartney, Jagger, Richards and Smith is still fucking weird.
Robert Smith, a baby baby boomer, is the baby in this picture.
the chokehold the WHITE silent generation and baby boomers have on YOUTH culture is absolutely surreal.
The Rolling Stones & Beatles were hip in an era that is long gone. they are now part of the #EpsteinClass #gerontocracy and we should stop pretending they aren’t social and cultural anachronisms.
@blogdiva Unbelievable. Who are senior citizen rockers even going to misappropriate their music from in this day and age...?
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@VW_Guy @blogdiva If older acts still perform, to the delight of older fans, then ... so what? That's been a thing for as long as I remember.
In the meantime, younger folks will find what they like, and it won't just be older established performers.
There's a legitimate argument to be made that mainstream music composition has been stagnating, though. I don't know how valid that is, or how much of a "problem" it is.
I mean, look at artists like Kaytranada and AG Cook and Doechii and Kendrick Lamar and Doja Cat, among dozens of incredible musicians producing and performing original music in the electronic, hip hop and house music categories, and it's hard to conclude that "mainstream music composition" is "stagnating".
There's hyperpop, afrobeat/amapiano, reggaeton, k-pop (and t-pop/v-pop), the return of 2-step/jungle, and the growing number of artists blending all of them.
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@VW_Guy @blogdiva If older acts still perform, to the delight of older fans, then ... so what? That's been a thing for as long as I remember.
In the meantime, younger folks will find what they like, and it won't just be older established performers.
There's a legitimate argument to be made that mainstream music composition has been stagnating, though. I don't know how valid that is, or how much of a "problem" it is.
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@blogdiva is anyone under the age of 50 going to even look at this album even once because i doubt it
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i just…
look: am 60 years old yet this composite photograph of McCartney, Jagger, Richards and Smith is still fucking weird.
Robert Smith, a baby baby boomer, is the baby in this picture.
the chokehold the WHITE silent generation and baby boomers have on YOUTH culture is absolutely surreal.
The Rolling Stones & Beatles were hip in an era that is long gone. they are now part of the #EpsteinClass #gerontocracy and we should stop pretending they aren’t social and cultural anachronisms.
@blogdiva What a drag it is getting old...
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@blogdiva Unbelievable. Who are senior citizen rockers even going to misappropriate their music from in this day and age...?
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I mean, look at artists like Kaytranada and AG Cook and Doechii and Kendrick Lamar and Doja Cat, among dozens of incredible musicians producing and performing original music in the electronic, hip hop and house music categories, and it's hard to conclude that "mainstream music composition" is "stagnating".
There's hyperpop, afrobeat/amapiano, reggaeton, k-pop (and t-pop/v-pop), the return of 2-step/jungle, and the growing number of artists blending all of them.
@johnzajac @blogdiva @isaackuo @VW_Guy I'll second that!
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@eyesquash @jcolag @blogdiva I will hear no ill of the Travelling Wilburys! It would be a sin to cause Roy Orbison to weep...
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@eyesquash @jcolag @blogdiva I will hear no ill of the Travelling Wilburys! It would be a sin to cause Roy Orbison to weep...
@mxchara @eyesquash @jcolag (pssst… isn't he a Brexit MAGA asshole?)
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@mxchara @eyesquash @jcolag (pssst… isn't he a Brexit MAGA asshole?)
@blogdiva@mastodon.social @eyesquash@mastodon.world @jcolag@mastodon.social @mxchara@seattle.pink wait, Roy Orbison?!
checks wikipedia
sees he died in 1988
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social @eyesquash@mastodon.world @jcolag@mastodon.social @mxchara@seattle.pink wait, Roy Orbison?!
checks wikipedia
sees he died in 1988
whew... thank fuck.@aud @eyesquash @jcolag @mxchara that group was that long ago?!?!? OMG
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@aud @eyesquash @jcolag @mxchara that group was that long ago?!?!? OMG
. so who was the old fart rocker that was all about Brexit?!?!?@blogdiva@mastodon.social @eyesquash@mastodon.world @jcolag@mastodon.social @mxchara@seattle.pink ahhh, wait wait wait. Was it that... what's his face. Suck McAssSuck, uh. ERIC CLAPTON!
Was it Eric Clapton?
