The Hills are Alive …

I hear a lot of comments about today’s music being crap. You hear – “Who is going to be listening to this garbage in 50 years?” is common. Read YouTube comments on music videos from the 1970’s and you will see over and over again how Boomers are lamenting today’s music.

One guy wrote that he believes that something has changed in the human genome because people like Elton John are not being produced any longer — he added at the end “I’m not joking”. Which means he knows nothing about the Human genome … and that he doesn’t know he’s a moron as he ‘wasn’t joking” And the comments to his comments are classic takes on today’s music being horrible and the longing for Elton John and his contemporaries.

Well let me highlight a few things for you.

– I have been hearing that same comment from older people about the current generation’s music my entire life. 
– My grandfather and my dad (and everybody their age back in the 1970’s) absolutely hated Elton John, Rolling Stones, Beatles – you name it – they all thought it was pure garbage. Just noise. 
– They complained that there were no more Frank Sinatra’s, Elle Fitzgerald’s, Perry Como’s 
– They said no one would listening to this crap in 50 years

Guess what – that sounds fairly familiar — trite you might say.

Today people will also take the songs that have survived 50 years and then compare them to today’s worst music. 
“I’ll take Elton John over Justin Bieber all day long”. Ooooh … you’re so deep.

Well let me highlight a few things for you again:

– In Elton’s day, they also had shitty singers like Bieber. They just didn’t survive the years so you don’t know about them. 
– During Elton’s heyday the 70’s … songs included Disco Duck, Muskrat Love, and Convoy (with some goofy trucker singing over a CB Radio about looking for cops or bears or whatever). 
– Back then, some old person (like you now) was saying … today’s music sucks, who’s going to be listening to this in 50 years? Disco Duck??? They’re not making Frank Sinatra’s any longer. 
– And there are singers as good as Elton (and Frank for that matter) today but you don’t know about them because you got old and have been listening to the same music since you were 16 years old you narrow-minded, smelly, gimpy bitch fuck.

Nothing makes the past look better than forgetting all the bad shit that happened and remembering only the time you listened to Rocket Man while getting a hand job from Carla – too tall to ball – Hall … and then comparing it to the reality of living today.

And finally … any good wedding reception DJ is playing Can’t Touch This (1990), Bust-a-Move (1989), Uptown Funk (2014), Yeah (Usher, 2004) …

“No kidding … you mean I am listening and dancing to something written after 1976?”

“Can I get some of those songs on 8-Track?”