You and me both, Brother.
There appears to be a dividing line where generations sharply diverge in their liking/acceptance of changes in culture.
Certainly, most of the people of the generation born before the mid thirties or forties, like my parents, never got rock and roll. Growing up my parents, born in 1919 and 1925, only played easy listening music on the radio. They neither understood nor liked rock and roll. However, my father did admit to liking some Beatles songs. But he certainly hated them when they first appeared on the tv screen, and he hated r and r in general.
But they were members of the swing generation. They liked all the musicians and singers from their generation.
But my grandparents didn't like that kind of music at all. Swing was too wild for them.
And now we have Boomers, like me, who hate rap and modern pop. I don't know how many Boomers like rap, but I doubt it's more than a very small percentage of Boomers.
I know the saying about people liking the music of their generation the most, but I like a lot of old music now that I didn't like when I was young. I mean some real old music going back four and five hundred years. I play four and five hundred year old classical music on my guitar.
My millennial stepdaughters love rap and modern pop, but they also like old rock and roll. One stepdaughter is a huge Judy Garland fan.
So how does that work? If every generation has members who like older forms of music, why don't they like music after their generation? I'm not talking about liking just one or two younger "artists," like a certain person on this forum who loves Adele. I mean liking the great bulk of what's churned out now.
I mean why don't Boomers like/love rap, when Generation X and millennials love that crap?
