Get offa my lawn
Had this same experience on a recent jaunt to the grocery store, though one magazine was entirely about presumably famous people I’d never heard of getting fat. And if I listen to a top 40 station or an adult hits station, I have no idea who those people are.
Though I wonder if it’s really age? I tend to think it’s more my increased usage of the internet. I simply have a choice about what is piped into my home and I don’t just have to sit there while someone pipes into my home whatever they choose. But it could be age.
February 20th, 2013 at 2:02 am
It’s neither. It’s your give-a-shit has other priorities.
At least that’s the way it works for me, because I don’t give-a-shit about “Honey Boo Boo” or a bunch of moronic peeps on Jersey Shore. Actually, all of the celebrities are so far down on my give-a-shit list that I care more about a fungus growing in a gnat’s ass than them.
But that’s just me.
February 20th, 2013 at 10:52 am
My music taste hasn’t changed. Just my radio station moved from “top 40” to “contemporary” to “classic rock”. Whey it’s “oldies” I will consider myself elderly.
February 20th, 2013 at 1:16 pm
I’m in my mid-20s, and on a recent trip I had a rental car with nowhere to plug in my MP3 player, so it was FM radio only. I had no idea who most of those artists were.
There is good music still being made nowadays, but you’re unlikely to find it on the radio.
February 20th, 2013 at 3:28 pm
The good music has rarely made it to the radio. It took me a while to realize that, as I grew up before .alt media. It was after progressive FM, and it was a brave station indeed that went outside of AOR. It’s not your age, it’s what you’ve been fed.
February 21st, 2013 at 12:06 pm
I find that not paying for TV (cable or Sat) makes a huge difference. I hear about boo boo people, swamp people, zombie people and don’t have any idea who they are talking about. One of the local stations started a digital country music tv on their extra channels. It’s not country anymore, it’s 80s rock w/ banjos and rapping. We need to hook Hank up to the power grid, he’s spinning so fast.