My niece called my favorite 2000s band 'dad rock' and I had to laugh

We were driving to the gym last Tuesday and I had my old playlist on, you know, the one with Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance. She said it sounded like music for people who wear cargo shorts and I realized maybe the millennial music thing is just a different vibe, not worse. Do you think every generation just hates on the music that came right before theirs?

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the_thomas18d agoMost Upvoted

That label gets slapped on everything now. My cousin called a Strokes song "elevator music" last month, which felt like a personal attack. It's all just a cycle of mild disrespect. The stuff we thought was cool gets filed away as background noise for the next group. Honestly, the cargo shorts comment is pretty sharp for a kid. Maybe we did all dress kind of the same.

michael_burns18d ago

Remember that feeling when you first heard a Strokes song, @the_thomas? It felt like a secret. Now it's just the thing playing while someone picks out a rug. That's the real burn, not the cargo shorts. It means the stuff that shaped us is officially harmless. So what's the cutoff? When does something stop being music and start being furniture?

hollyn707d ago

My 12 year old nephew said Green Day is classic rock now. The timeline just moves faster than we do, and there's no fighting it. Honestly, the cargo shorts were comfortable.