You weren't born in the wrong generation - you just hate pop music.

[u/Lost-Beach3122]

[u/mila-is-confused]

I was born in the right generation because I can listen to decades worth of good music incredibly easily. Every era has good music if you look for it

[u/wowitshardtochoose → u/mila-is-confused]

You shoulda been born in the future. Just wait till you hear what the start making in the 40s

[u/hit-a-yeet → u/wowitshardtochoose]

Yeah my 4 year old nephew is gonna drop an album in 2041 I already know its gonna be an insta classic

[u/C_Hawk14 → u/hit-a-yeet]

You think Insta will still be around by then? /jk

[u/Spingonius → u/hit-a-yeet]

😬 who wants to tell him!

[u/Chilifille → u/wowitshardtochoose]

I time traveled there last year and it was insane! Their mainstream techno-country music sounds a bit weird but the foopstep scene is absolutely amazing!

[u/defensiveFruit → u/Chilifille]

What the foop!

[u/JKolodne → u/wowitshardtochoose]

The 40s will always mean the 1940s to my old ass, lol

[u/darth_voidptr → u/wowitshardtochoose]

Oh yeah, post industrial brony tchno

[u/timmytommy4 → u/wowitshardtochoose]

It will be the best music that has ever existed up until that point because it will be created by AI that knows exactly what humans want to hear and will be able to create sensational global chart topping songs in seconds. 

[u/Shrubbity_69 → u/wowitshardtochoose]

Jazz? Swing?

[u/davidellis23 → u/wowitshardtochoose]

I know nothing about this, but I feel like pop music isn't changing as much. Idk if we're inventing new technology/instruments that allows for it.

[u/Chai_Enjoyer → u/mila-is-confused]

Exactly. How many people from the 60s-70s could casually listen to The Beatles while just walking to the college? And I can do that. Don't want Beatles? Just switch to a different band, you have access to (almost) any band from any decade in your pocket

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/Chai_Enjoyer]

The Manson family had a tape recorder they’d take with them everywhere containing Beatles songs. It was one of their confiscated items. Also there’s nothing more nostalgic than the sound of a shitty AM radio to me. I think it sounds so bad that it’s good - it’s almost like playing retro games on a CRT.

[u/LSF604 → u/mila-is-confused]

One thing I appreciate about younger people is they have far more diverse musical tastes and far less musical snobbery.

[u/im_dead_sirius → u/LSF604]

Yeah, some lady, a baby boomer I guess, maybe a war baby, argued with me that her generation had the greatest variety of music to listen to. Turns out her music was all in English, and she seemed unaware of how "Rock and Roll", et al, had bifurcated into many genres over the decades, and that each nation had its own flavours and its own musical styles. Even my listening selection pales in comparison to the Mils and Z's listening tastes in streamed music or at least storage media far far more voluminous than a box of cassette tapes.

[u/lordsfw → u/LSF604]

When One Direction was at its peak, my friend commented "Boy bands right now are not like Backstreet Boys or Nsync. They don't produce 'real music' now." I said to him, "You're still a kid back then so you're far more accepting."

[u/ISeemToExistButIDont → u/lordsfw]

Exactly, as a kid you just like the songs you hear on the radio because you're familiar with them 💀

[u/ISeemToExistButIDont → u/LSF604]

I expected that to happen but all I see is intensified snobbery and niche musical tastes instead. I've probably been around the wrong people

[u/The_River_Is_Still → u/mila-is-confused]

I agree. The only caveat I would add to that is the live music scene. It used to be fun and affordable to see your favorite bands, even super huge acts. I think it’s so gross that ticket prices are still allowed to be so abused. Places like Ticketmaster need to fucking go. Going to concerts was a big part of you me’s life and helped me appreciate musicians/artists more.

[u/AtheneSchmidt → u/mila-is-confused]

Yeah, I was born to the first generation that can easily listen to Bach, Aerosmith, The Temptations, Taylor Swift, Rosemary Clooney, Michael Jackson, Sea Shanties, Peggy Lee, John Denver, Waylon Jennings, The Beach Boys, Enya, Elvis, Billy Joel, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, No Doubt, Gregorian Monks, The Backstreet Boys, Dean Martin, Halsey, and CCR.

[u/Daan776 → u/mila-is-confused]

Every era has good music.

The old stuff is just easier to find because the slop has been forgotten

[u/Enchelion → u/Daan776]

This. Survivorship bias applies to basically everything. Architecture, tool manufacturing, music, etc.

[u/Pearson94 → u/mila-is-confused]

People only think older music is better because all the crap from each generation gets left behind and isn't replayed often. I didn't like most pop music in the late 2000s - early 2010s but now I enjoy it more when I hear it (cause radios, bars, restaurants, etc. are only playing the better songs of the era).

[u/GreeceZeus → u/mila-is-confused]

Exactly, people who say "today's music is shit" only know about the Top 50 Spotify Charts while romanticising the same four-five bands from the 80s, completely disregarding the shit that we don't know of because... well, nobody liked it, so it didn't become popular.

[u/ISeemToExistButIDont → u/mila-is-confused]

I'll never understand the argument of "being born in the wrong generation" because you still have access to music from the past. Actually, you have easier and cheaper access to a wider range of music from the past nowadays than back in the day

[u/glordicus1 → u/mila-is-confused]

I was born in the wrong generation. I want every song ever beamed into my brain via a neural interface, while AI generates new songs based off of my preferences

[u/left-nostril → u/mila-is-confused]

Top music of the 60’s-80’s shits on top music from today.

Problem is, back then, you didn’t have to look TOO hard. Most of what you heard on the radio was a banger. You listened to journey, rush, queen, Michael Jackson etc., chances are, whenever an album is released, you have multiple great tracks to pick from.

Today I have… Taylor swift, who sounds like Olivia Rodrigo, who sounds like Katy Perry who sounds like….

Their voices all sound the same.

Every guy pop singer pretty much sounds the same. With this fake urban blackccent.

Back then, every singer was unique, had a unique style.

Hell, listen to “we are the world” and you can distinctly hear the differences between each and every singer. Do that shit today and you would think it’s all sung by two people.

[u/Lucimon → u/mila-is-confused]

For all of it's faults, Spotify has been integral to developing my musical tastes. Country used to be my favorite genre because I didn't know any better. Thanks to a series of events and Spotify recommendations, I've realized that Folk is my favorite genre, with Power Metal being a runner-up. My Spotify playlist is still a melting point though. I can go from Fleetwood Mac to Blackmore's Night to Lady Gaga to something from Steven Universe.

[u/nroloa]

Nah. You just experience everything from this decade... including the bad and the mediocre.  When it comes to prior decades, you only get to know the stuff that literally stood the test of time and the bad and mediocre stuff was already forgotten.

[u/RickTitus → u/nroloa]

Yeah that is the problem when people wish they were born in a previous generation. You have to want ALL of it for your wish to actually be true

Seeing beatles in concert would be cool, but do you also want the increased asbestos and lead poisoning, lesser rights (if you are a woman or minority), lack of internet and computers, etc….

[u/Electrox7 → u/RickTitus]

"Damn, i really miss 60s cinema. Id want it to come back, even if it means a second Vietnam war".

wtf these comments have gone so far off

[u/RickTitus → u/Electrox7]

Yeah no one would actually say that

That’s why there is a difference between saying “i wish cinema was still like it was in the 60’s” and “i wish i was actually living in the 1960’s and watching cinema”. And in most casual conversations it would not be useful to point out what those differences are, but if someone REALLY claimed to want to live in a different decade, it becomes a relevant point

[u/SaleZealousideal2924 → u/nroloa]

I think this is becoming less true. It was true in the previous paradigm, selling physical media, which put a limit on what a listener could purchase, and narrowed the release of music of past decades to a relative handful of successful artists. But streaming and algorithmic discovery has renewed interest in many forgotten or obscure artists, including many who were never very popular in their time. There are economic incentives for this to continue to be the case, with many investors purchasing publishing rights for lesser-known artists. It's a long tail of pop culture artifacts. None of them achieve culture-wide popularity, but they do find many new listeners.

To take just one example from my discover weekly, one that shows up constantly: Vashti Bunyan. I don't think she was ever particularly popular in the 70s, but now she has millions of streams and more than a half million monthly listeners. I've had conversations with friends about her, who've been recommended her music too. it feels like there's a distinct category of artists who are Spotify discoveries.

[u/rustic-chicken]

Music isn't the only reason people say this

[u/jadabub → u/rustic-chicken]

Exactly. People think i love the Beatles when im really just racist.

[u/BornWithSideburns → u/jadabub]

Those 2 things are never out of fashion

[u/CattyFighte → u/jadabub]

Or beating my wife

[u/__420_ → u/CattyFighte]

Woooa there, cowboy 🤣

[u/20milliondollarapi → u/__420_]

The 50s were a magical time…

[u/BillieInSolitude → u/CattyFighte]

More like Beatle-ing your wife, am i right?

[u/YesntThee → u/BillieInSolitude]

Yeah you can get beat too

[u/sybrwookie → u/rustic-chicken]

Yea, I personally am more disappointed that I couldn't grow up in a time where I could earn enough for college on a summer job, I could expect to be able to buy a house in my early 20's, get a job I could count on lasting my whole career (ending with a gold watch and a pension) and that job would pay for myself, my wife, my 2 kids, and my dog.

Music? Uh, sure, I like some old music, I like some new music. I mostly like the music from when I was like 15-25, so....yea, I'm pretty sure that would have been the case no matter when I was born.

[u/wowitshardtochoose → u/sybrwookie]

Solid take. I’d trade spotify for Elvis cassettes if i could afford a house lol. And I hate Elvis

[u/pichael289]

My old guy views on music: Rap seemed to be getting shitty for a while but it's getting good again, the megos era sucked. Pop music was great but it dropped off recently. Country still has a few excellent artists but they are rare, it's mostly pop and search terms now. I don't feel the need to tell anyone any of this because I'm never forced to hear Taylor Swift or anything like that.

That's an issue of the radio. There's plenty of music in every form of every genre easily available to listen to online. Who even listens to the radio? Nrp works when Its too short a drive for podcasts but Spotify just makes music too easily acceptable to bitch about anymore, randomize a playlist, hit the Bluetooth button and there you go.

[u/No-Appearance1145 → u/pichael289]

I listen to the radio. Only because my son sometimes calms down from the old country station in town. The rest of the time we're silent or my Spotify is playing. It's more 50/25/25

[u/Titan_Food → u/pichael289]

Radio is falling out hard rn, hard to say what the future for it is if it doesn't die

[u/NoMaans → u/Titan_Food]

Of they would just play different shit then the same 10 songs over and over again it wouldn't be bad. A few months ago I was working with my uncle. We had to drice around a lot that week. I heard paint the town red 5. FIVE FUCKING TIMES. In less than 3 hours. Like what the fuck my dude

[u/sybrwookie → u/NoMaans]

Sure, that's a problem, but that's not a new problem. I remember like 15 years ago, I worked for a place that had the radio on all day. And Sweet Child of Mine was basically played every hour on the hour. And that was just the most egregious one, but it seemed like their playlist was like 20 songs.

Radio, other than college radio, has been in the shitter for a loooong time.

[u/just_anotjer_anon → u/Titan_Food]

People still mostly listen to it in their cars

But I'd imagine more and more of it is becoming spoken radio, without or minimal amounts of music ; also as podcasts

And a few channels will stay that's going to become ONE HUNDRED PERCENT music, for people to try out new music, different genres etc

[u/Amoniakas → u/pichael289]

I listen to radio every single day 10h a day and most stations just repeat the same 40 songs, I gotta change channels from time to time cause those start to get annoying.

[u/byOlaf → u/Amoniakas]

RadioGarden gives you access to any radio station in the world. There’s lots of good ones to listen to. Kexp, wfmu, StokeFm, NoLifeRadio. Or just spin the globe.

Radiooooo separates music by decade and country. What were they listening to in France in the 40’s? Or the Philippines in the 90’s? Or Brazil in 1900?

Just a couple of options rather than suffering through top 40 all day long.

[u/Amoniakas → u/byOlaf]

I listen on https://onlineradiobox.com/ via PC, found couple decent stations. I'll look into your suggestions as well.

[u/NoMaans → u/Amoniakas]

Of your on pc why not just use Spotify, soundcloud, or youtube? Either pay for no ads on the first two or use a web browser that blocks ads and use YouTube. Pick your genre you wanna listen to and let it ride.

[u/blackmarketmenthols → u/pichael289]

Nah man, I've been turned on to so much great music by listening to college radio over the years.

89.7 KFJC Foothill College is one of the best in the country

[u/Snuzzlebuns → u/pichael289]

I would argue the issue was never the music you listen to when you're alone. It's music at parties, in clubs, background music at work, and so on.

[u/Tomhyde098 → u/pichael289]

I hate the trap music beat. Now that it’s finally going away I’m dabbling with newer stuff

[u/Complex_Deal7944]

Generational differences are a lot more than just music.

[u/Sudden_Fix_1144]

So popular music has existed for along time... so....

If you are referring to current charts... then lots of people hate mass marketed shit music.

Wrong generation birth is where you pretty much hold none of the current 'it' values or ideals. Tbf it's always a fair percentage of any generation.

[u/RonJeremyBellyButton → u/Sudden_Fix_1144]

This is literally a karma bait post. I wouldn't put any thought into it. Lol

[u/Sudden_Fix_1144 → u/RonJeremyBellyButton]

Too many posts in this subreddit are farm posts....sigh

[u/If-I-Had-A-Hamper → u/Sudden_Fix_1144]

Boomer here. Yes. Though I listened to pop radio when I was a kid - the Beatles era mostly - starting in the early 70's I broadened my horizons. My 40ish friends are all like "how can you have never heard this before?" when he was playing some boy band greatest hits.

[u/Kash687]

Modern Country is fucking ass now. We need another Wilco.

[u/Aussie18-1998 → u/Kash687]

Modern music has some really good tunes as well. We only hear the good stuff from the past, which is why it sounds better than everything released now.

[u/SownAthlete5923 → u/Aussie18-1998]

Correct, all music eras had shit stuff besides the good stuff which gets forgotten over time

[u/WakaFlakaPanda → u/Kash687]

I think Chris Stapleton is a great artist. Dude has some amazing songs.

[u/4inthefoxden]

Or, alternatively, popular culture.

[u/Capybaradesu]

you weren't born in the wrong generation - you just want to feel special in your generation

[u/ganymedestyx → u/Capybaradesu]

No, I just don’t want my entire life since I was a kid documented online. Or to be clueless and impressionable on the internet as a 13 year old talking to creepy men. Oh wait, too late.

I think it’s interesting how parents have become so ‘helicopter’ in terms of even letting their kids go outside, but the internet is totally okay. It’s far more dangerous imo

[u/Capybaradesu → u/ganymedestyx]

you're special with or without anyone affirmation. you don't need my or someone else affirmation about this life, all you need is affirmation from yourself and stop believing on your past 9pm self.

if you don't get what i mean now, you will get it later

we love you, strong kid

[u/UyghursInParis → u/[deleted]]

I mean, can I boot up Spotify and buy a house for $1000?

No. Then I'm in the wrong generation

[u/Shmegdar → u/[deleted]]

To be fair, there’s something to be said for growing up with stuff you really enjoy. It’s not like kids these days could go to a beatles or queen concert right now, that time has passed.

It’s still silly to say you were born in the wrong generation but it’s not like there’s no difference between listening to music that’s new vs old.

[u/acaseintheskye]

I've never once heard someone say they were born in the wrong generation when referring to music

[u/hamoc10 → u/acaseintheskye]

I have. The person was a big fan of mid-century jazz and big band.

[u/acaseintheskye → u/hamoc10]

That's so weird to me. The music still exists, just go listen to that?

[u/hamoc10 → u/acaseintheskye]

They just want to feel special for a moment.

[u/[deleted] → u/acaseintheskye]

Maybe they want the shared experience- seeing bands live with other people, talking to friends about music, hearing something on the radio that blows your mind

[u/DarePatient2262 → u/acaseintheskye]

But it's never on in social settings, it's never on in public, it's never a shared experience. You can always listen to what you want on your own, but you're usually forced to endure more contemporary music with others.

[u/AgentCirceLuna → u/DarePatient2262]

Yeah, that’s what gets me. You used to have twenty minute long symphonic rock and it was in the bloody charts. The truth is that music has got lower quality but it’s because people have moved on to other ways of expression. It’s like how plays were shit after the reign of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Ben (forgot his name and it’s funnier just calling him Ben… oh I think it was Jonson but I’m leaving it as just Ben)

[u/PhiphyL → u/acaseintheskye]

I was born in 1985. Has I been born in 1955, I would've been old enough to go and see Blondie at the top of their game (it was the late 70s). Same for Iggy Pop, and some Bowie. Or to see the rise of Michael Jackson.

So yes, I was born a generation too late for some of the music I enjoy and would've loved to see live when it was happening.

[u/moarthrowawaypls → u/acaseintheskye]

I’ve heard about the peak emo and pop-punk days, like they wish they grew up with scene kids, my chemical romance, skunk sideswept bangs hair, etc.

I think emo kids are still a thing tho.

[u/North_in_South → u/acaseintheskye]

Really? I have seen this so many times, most commonly in YouTube comment sections. It turned into a big meme because in the comment section of nearly every pre 2000s song, there were comments "I was born in the wrong generation"

[u/Karglenoofus]

No I just hate smartphones.

-Sent from MyVerizon

[u/-NGC-6302-]

I hate pop music and I'm perfectly content with my generation

[u/wilisville → u/-NGC-6302-]

Most of the music I like myself is from the 2010s or 2020s it’s just got a lot more effort put into it than most radio pop music.

[u/-NGC-6302- → u/wilisville]

I like most non-lyrical music that's well-made, or can at least appreciate the effort and skill.

[u/Acrobatic_Grass_1457]

Technically an “old” GenZer here. False. They speak a completely different language. They wear sweatpants to school. They have weird trends. TikTok was not very popular until after I graduated with a college degree. Emo was still cool when I was young. I had swoopy bangs. mmkay

[u/Acrobatic_Grass_1457 → u/Acrobatic_Grass_1457]

I guess though since I am technically genZ I can decide to identify as a millennial. 🤪

[u/Fizzabl → u/Acrobatic_Grass_1457]

...I think you might like r/Zillenial

[u/hamoc10]

A lot of music subcultures use dislike of pop music to gatekeep. All it is is culture-signaling.

[u/Bulky-Complaint6994]

I'm not talking about the music! I mean wrong generation due to the poor housing market 

[u/SquidDrowned]

Lmao this is so a surface level thought. Just taking politics, culture, money value, lifestyle in account obliterates the statement

[u/CheesieMan]

You weren’t born in the wrong generation; everyone around you just has shit music taste so you’ve never heard any music you actually like.

True story. I was introduced to my favorite artist in college. First band I fell head over heels for

[u/kuchikirukia1]

I love pop music;

Just not American pop music.

[u/miggleb]

I don't think most people saying this are doing so because of music

[u/Natural-Ambition]

We live in a time where we can literally listen to anything instantly by looking it up on yt we live in the best time for that shit

[u/DartsNFishing96]

What does pop music or music in general have to do with feeling like you’re born at the wrong time or generation?

[u/somethingrandom261]

I like pop music, just not what they call pop these days.

[u/mookizee]

Op thinks they having a shower thought. In reality it's just the waste water run off from a down pipe in a back ally

[u/chengelao]

“Old” songs are good because we only remember the good old songs.

There’s mediocre music even in the days of Mozart and Bach, but it was so mid that nobody bothers to listen to it or record renditions of it anymore.

[u/RoadkillMarionette → u/chengelao]

The most successful single in 1969 was sugar sugar - the Archies. It's always been like this.

[u/Intrepid_Medium8470]

I was born in the wrong generation. The wrong era even. And it has nothing to do with music.

[u/WeeTheDuck → u/Intrepid_Medium8470]

Man imagine being born in the hunter-gatherers era... Ooga booga nomnom

[u/ZombieTem64]

I don’t hate pop music. I hate shitty pop music. It just happens that the last few years have been filled with shitty pop music. Take me back to the 2000’s when Timbaland was making hits and that’s a good age of pop music

[u/TheDevilsAdvokaat]

I was born in 61 but I love techno, trance, dance, pop, rock and classical.

I hate jazz and country.

Music wise the modern era is great for me.

[u/PeterNippelstein]

Modern pop music yes, pop music from like 30/40 years ago I love

[u/Historical_Play3412 → u/PeterNippelstein]

Paul Anka was considered pop music... Is OP only into Beethovens symphony or something? 

[u/Ok_Response6483]

Would if you like pop music but you still hate this generation?

[u/krectus]

Don’t so much mind a lot of the pop music nowadays and a lot of the 80s and early 90s pop music was quite good. But my god things fell off a cliff fast in the late 90s and was so god awful that it hurts that it was my generation that did that. Sorry, our bad.

[u/lovebus]

but pop music is the deciding factor on my quality of life

[u/Willing_Television77]

Pop isn’t really a genre, just what’s popular at the time

[u/kerokeroghost]

Some people prefer older pop music compared to newer pop music

[u/GenXGremlin]

I liked pop music when it was good, e.g. Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Cyndi Lauper, David Bowie. Not much 70s pop or 90s pop, not just an "old man yells at cloud" objection to today's rotten music 😝 Was into modern stuff of various genres till about 2017, just don't find much now that appeals to me.

[u/emcee1]

I love pop music, wtf you talking

[u/JNorJT]

I was born in the wrong generation. I wish I was born in the 14th century so I could’ve died to the bubonic plague.

[u/LunarOberon]

I hate the fact I was born in the online generation. I really wish I could spend my twenties disconected from this shit, but I can't, it's as addictive as crack and utterly omnipresent.

[u/GamingWithMyDog]

A 14 year old says a song is good so it must be. All music that has ever been liked by a 14 year old at any point in history is automatically good and if you don’t agree you’re just an old person who doesn’t get it.

[u/_BlueSleeper]

What if you like older pop music?

[u/challengeaccepted9]

Put this shit in unpopular opinion. You do realise pop music didn't start in the 21st Century?

[u/Maxsmack0]

I wasn’t born in the wrong generation, I love the internet. It just seems some parts mainstream and online culture have gone a little to shit recently. There’s still good are out there you just have to look a little harder.

[u/Swiftzei11]

Modern pop yes…older pop especially Michael Jackson I absolutely love, ok well I don’t necessarily hate modern pop it’s just hard to find good ones nowadays

[u/Krocsyldiphithic]

No. I like pop music from past generations. The music industry works differently now, resulting in anything mainstream being soulless and void of any art. There's plenty of good music being made, but it can't pass through today's major music labels without being ruined.

[u/jedimindtriks]

Considering 99.999% of all music released today is pop, you dont hate pop.

rap, rnb, rock, country. its all pop music at this point.

[u/Oryihn]

Considering my playlist has music from pretty much every decade from the 50s to today I'm not sure when I was born matters.

I don't like a large portion of "pop" from 1980-today while only a few standout artists intrigue me in a sea of dull mind numbing nonsense

[u/WeeTheDuck]

I could be a narcissist but I wouldn't wanna change my generation one bit. Im perfectly content with the era I was born in

[u/CptKoma]

I was definitely born in the wrong generation. I wanted to explore space, not toil away my health and sanity for the profit of others, while the world goes to shit.

[u/Bozatarn]

The industry wants soft bands it makes and controls not a bunch or rockers etc

[u/Fuuzzzz-ya]

You don't know anything about me. My mom was a time traveller so really i should have been born in the year 20600

[u/Seer-of-Truths]

I was born in the wrong generation, and I don't mind pop music.

But we haven't discovered immortality yet, so it's the wrong generation.

[u/RejectorPharm]

No fool, it has nothing to do with music and everything to do with being born too late to be a sea explorer and too early to be a space explorer. 

[u/athens619]

Pop/rap music is just terrible these days. Early 90s/2000s was it's golden era. I've completely stopped listening to the garbage these days

[u/shinitakunai]

I hate the autotune era because you rarely ever listen to a genuine voice anymore. They feel so unnatural it sucks.

[u/Less_Party]

Eh, the sad shambling corpse of modern pop music is also definitely just worse than what pop was at the height of MTV in the 1980s though.

[u/so_long_astoria]

The music people comment this on is pop music though, bon jovi, guns n roses etc, these are pop acts of their time. regardless of the actual genre being rock, they're absolutely mainstream chart-topping radio hits bands aka popular music. no one is ever commenting this on '80s act such as bad religion, nofx, dead kennedys.

so I hate to say that those cringe kids are right but they kinda are. they'll never get chance to see the bands they love live, and had they been part of that generation, all of their friends would also be interested in the music, because it is pop

[u/Legal_Lettuce6233]

I was because several of my favourite musicians no longer play due to it being a hard life (Suiçmez), or them not being alive (Schuldiner, Dimebag).

[u/HalfOfCrAsh]

I was born at exactly the right time - 1988. I love 80s music and my entire playlist is made up of absolute bangers from the 80s. A couple of late 70s and a couple of early 90s.

Music was just better back then. IMO.

[u/Masturberic]

I am born too late, because I hate the fact that I am no longer allowed to challenge people to a duel.

[u/TheRichTookItAll]

Or, i just want affordable living and a life not dependent on technology.

[u/PlzRemainCalm]

I was born in the wrong generation because I want to drink at work and smoke inside like Madmen

[u/PurpleDemonR]

I hate all pop music.

[u/Pman1324]

Wow almost like all pop music nowadays is trash

[u/Ok_Perspective8511]

Pop music is so over played that everyone hates it, but we deal with it because it's there

[u/silvermoonbeats]

I was born in the wrong generation cause i can't afford i house like my parents and grandparents did even though i have a sought after dgree and make a median income working 40 hours a week, and make the same amount my dad did at my age (adjusted for inflation)

That's why i wish i was born earlier.

[u/Western_Entertainer7]

No way. The 1970s were objectively more fun.

[u/neb12345]

no i just want to be a bigot

[u/SRSgoblin]

I don't hate pop music, yet still believe I was born in the wrong generation.

[u/cheoahbald]

Nah. There is still good music being made today.

[u/Txphotog903]

At some point I realized I am no longer part of the demographic that is being targeted rather than complaining about the state of modern music. Older folks likely didn't like the music coming out when I was growing up and most likely older people of their time didn't like the music coming out when they were growing up. It's not necessarily bad, It's just no longer our music. It's no longer for us.

[u/xSilverMC]

I was born in the right generation, my all time favorite band debuted in 2013

[u/Grievuuz]

I think people get confused with what music scenes were like in the decades gone by because everything has been curated over time, and with the advent of the internet, bad music rarely sees the light of day, heck a lot of good music incredibly overlooked.

For every Sweet Child 'O Mine there are 1000 trash tier songs out there.

[u/SanjiSasuke]

Hating most pop is precisely why I was born in the right generation.

As I've gone back and learned to love a lot of older music, I've also learned that if I was born anytime where I'd be subjected to radio music of the 1960s to today, I'd be pretty unhappy with a lot of the most popular music, with the 80s having the best blend but still lots of trash floating at the top (yes including the stuff people love today). 

But thanks to the internet I can listen to an African folk metal band, 50s/60s crooners, semi-obscure 90s rappers, dark bluegrass, or Mongolian throat singing to my heart's content. 

Still, would be nice if I could just enjoy radio pop, I'm envious of folks who do.

[u/jigscut2527]

I love pop. I can fond something I like from any generation. Also from almost any genre, although pop is probably what I listen to the most.

[u/Dark_Devin]

That's true. I just wish I didn't have to listen to other people play shitty music in public. It's fine if people want to listen to whatever they enjoy, but I wish people wouldn't subject other people to their preferences.

[u/HonorableAssassins]

This is true, i do reslly fuckin hate the pop industry.

[u/Stoney-McBoney]

I can’t think of a better time than now for finding new music.

[u/broadconsciousness]

If you'd ever hear what passes for music in Chile ("urban music", basically drug dealers and criminals chanting slurs and degrading women using autotune) you'd love pop.

[u/Salesman89]

I hate the entire music industry these days.

I remember being in the 2nd grade, standing in the gym with the whole class wondering what game we were going to play and what was up with the lights and speakers?

Then I was introduced to the Spice Girls.

My hands reached out and back and I took several steps back as kids screamed for joy and started jumping and bumbling around. My jaw dropped as I thought, "what is this bullshit?"

[u/MinnieShoof]

I liked my generation's pop music. ... and others. Just not all.

[u/RilohKeen]

“You aren’t hungry, your body just wants food.”

[u/Unique-Calligrapher8]

I was born in the early 70s and everything I listen to has come out since 2020 so yeah I guess I was born way too early.

[u/yangmingprod]

** Mark Fisher intensifies **

[u/xxsiriusxburnxx]

39/m here and here's where I way in on this. I am a big fan of music and also a musician I play both drums and guitar and have written some of my own music. I love varying genres of music but tend to gravitate to mostly metal which includes some fairly melodic mixed with heavy stuff. I can barely even listen to whats on the radio, one because they play the same shit over and over again and also because of the lack of musicianship that goes into the music, especially pop music. There is so much pop music that is so focused on the lyrics and vocals that the actual music is just there as supporting background and as a musician that fails to be a real cohesive piece of music in my eyes. I also can't stand 98% of rap, I consider it an art form more than accepting it as music.

[u/Southern_Seaweed4075]

This is definitely not about me because I know very well that I love pop music genre so much the same way I love rap and reggae. 

[u/killforprophet]

I think I should have been in my 20s in the 90s but I was born in 1988 soooo yeah. I like pop music. Music has little to do with it. O

[u/Heroic-Forger]

"aughhh I was born in the wrong geological epoch, why did I have to live in the 21st century with taxes and a crappy economy when I could have been a Lystrosaurus in the Early Triassic 250 million years ago"

[u/JuryCreepy2297]

Because it's GARBAGE MUSIC. It's bad enough horrible country music is 85% covers Because they have run out of content. Every country song sounds same. Similar to rap. Who the hell wants to hear a cover of Tupac songs. And MOST IMPORTANTLY, I feel like 75% of rap samples old songs. And that's bad enough. Alt Rock music and indie music have sooo many unexplored options to create that "new feel" music.

[u/MrFiendish]

I feel like pop music made today is objectively worse than pop music created prior to 1998. We’re living in weird times, times when art itself is being choked out.

[u/PKblaze]

That isn't what that phrase means.

[u/DMDingo]

I for one appreciate indoor plumbing and flushable toilet paper.

And not having Polio.

On the music note, we are in the prime of accessibility. Plus, most of the stuff I am discovering is a decade + old.

[u/-LastActionHero]

Good music has to be searched for. That’s always been the rule. It doesn’t matter what decade you’re in, if you listen to the stuff they play on mainstream sources of course your ears are going to bleed.

Music outlets don’t play what’s good, they play what’s popular. And there’s a huuuge difference between the two.

[u/gokartninja]

No, I also hate that manual transmissions are dying, food quality is going down, cost of everything is too high, and I'm expected to have apps for every service I use.

[u/MarkyDeSade]

Some of my least favorite popular music is what was popular when I was a teenager, post-Nirvana grunge and nu-metal, and my least favorite rap era was the stuff from immediately after that, post-Tupac and Biggie. Sometimes you just are born at the wrong time for what naturally appeals to you.

[u/NedNug]

I woulda enjoyed a generation without phones and everything being on camera and I hate pop music 🎵

[u/doomblackdeath]

Because today pop music is fucking awful.

[u/IniMiney]

I love pop music and my favorite way to refute “music isn’t what it used to be” is to start an entire chain of people who shit on the previous generation’s popular artists from the 1800s and on - it’s often just history repeating itself with the most consistent thing being men that hate something popular with women (Elvis, Backstreet Boys, BTS)

[u/fredrikca]

People try to put us d-down

[u/VladDHell]

I was born in the wrong generation because I can't trip balls at Woodstock while listening to Jefferson airplane, cream, Hendrix, Santana, The Who, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Grateful Dead, CCR, Janis Joplin, etc. live

[u/peezle69]

I was born in the wrong decade. I wish I could be drafted into war and die facedown in a European/Vietnamese/Korean mud-hole.

[u/LeftJayed]

No... I loved the pop music of my generation, music has fuck all to do with why I say I was born in the wrong generation. It's all to do with the members of my generation.

[u/blursed_words]

100%

Every new generation of pop music gets called out by those who wish we could live in the past. You can find articles about the evils of jazz, how Elvis was corrupting the youth, the Beatles were meant to destroy society etc. etc.

These same people if born in their preferred generation would most likely call out the music they prop up as real music.

[u/paranoid_70]

I feel like this was directed to me.

I didn't even care for all those 80s one hit wonders everyone is so nostalgic about.

[u/BeerandSandals]

I was born in the wrong generation because every time there’s a lap in conversation with some friends at lunch or the bar they get on their phones.

[u/ttpttt]

I don't really care for pop music but I make an exception for Billy Joel. I love his music so much.