Sic Transit Gloria...

[László]

Today my wife was talking with a young woman she works with - mid-twenties - and her co-worker asked about her trip to CA to see my son and attend a baby shower. She wanted to see pics. In the process of showing photos, a clip my wife took of my son playing and singing 'Hey Jude' just for fun started up.

She said to my wife, "What's that song?"

"It's 'Hey Jude'," my wife replied. She got a blank stare. "It's a classic song! C'mon, it's by The Beatles!"

"I don't know The Beatles," said the young woman. "I've never heard that song."

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi...

 

[Tony M.]

Bands come and go.
I was in high school when the Beatles hit.
I graduated from high school in 1964.

When my daughter was 14 (1999) she came to me all excited.
She had discovered a new band and wanted me to listen to them.
She thought I would really like them because I play guitar.

Aerosmith...

 

[gush]

Wow

 

[Prs Mods too]

This reminds me of my 26 yo nephew. We played She's So Heavy for him.

A few weeks later he was over again and wanted us to play that song but couldn't remember the name. He says "you know, that one you played a couple weeks ago, the one about that fat chick".

 

[László]

Bands come and go.
I was in high school when the Beatles hit.
I graduated from high school in 1964.

When my daughter was 14 (1999) she came to me all excited.
She had discovered a new band and wanted me to listen to them.
She thought I would really like them because I play guitar.

Aerosmith...

Great story!

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Today my wife was talking with a young woman she works with - mid-twenties - and her co-worker asked about her trip to CA to see my son and attend a baby shower. She wanted to see pics. In the process of showing photos, a clip my wife took of my son playing and singing 'Hey Jude' just for fun started up.

She said to my wife, "What's that song?"

"It's 'Hey Jude'," my wife replied. She got a blank stare. "It's a classic song! C'mon, it's by The Beatles!"

"I don't know The Beatles," said the young woman. "I've never heard that song."

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi...

I quite often have this conversation with work colleagues who are about half my age, films/music/books, they have never seen/heard/read. But I suppose it’s generational.

 

[Greywolf]

like the kid at Open Mic this week who didn't know who Jeff Beck was .. .seriously kids !

 

[Steve's addiction]

My fiancee's son told her he heard this new band the other day......Tom Petty!!

 

[Lewguitar]

Seems impossible not to have ever heard Hey Jude or the Beatles.

Gal must live a very sheltered life.

https://imgur.com/IyNYT96

 

[Tony M.]

I quite often have this conversation with work colleagues who are about half my age, films/music/books, they have never seen/heard/read. But I suppose it’s generational.

I have never had a problem getting along with
people who I have a vast difference in age with.
Friend's parents, old people when I was young,
young people now, etc.

There have been many times when I have started talking about an event I was present for
and the person I was telling about it says, "You were there?! I learned about that in high school.
It happened before I was born.".

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Seems impossible not to have ever heard Hey Jude or the Beatles.

Gal must live a very sheltered life.

https://imgur.com/IyNYT96

The lady on the right looks like a young Steven Fry.

 

[Max Headroom]

Hey Jude?
The Beatles??

Hold on let me Google.....

 

[aphantomvaper]

Wait til they play YOU a song you've never heard of!

"What? Its like, the most, like, popular, like, song, right now, brev!"

 

[bodia]

Poor parenting!

 

[László]

Wait til they play YOU a song you've never heard of!

Happens all the time.

 

[tiboy]

In fairness, I cannot recite even one line of lyrics from any hip hop song ever written. Of course the same is true of any opera ever written.

 

[Tony M.]

In fairness, I cannot recite even one line of lyrics from any hip hop song ever written. Of course the same is true of any opera ever written.

Can you recite any of the 91 verses of
"I Had a Good Dog but He Died"?

 

[Juan Luis Vidal]

It's something the academics are already discussing. Think about it: for the first time in history a whole generation can (if they want to) consume media produced by that very same generation.
The music, comics, stories, movies, news, books... that we had when we were young were produced by the previous generations. However, kids nowadays can isolate themselves in YouTubes, TikToks, Twitches... who are produced by kids more of less the same age. There has always been a generational gap, but nowadays that gap has turned into a chasm...

 

[Alnus Rubra]

In fairness, I cannot recite even one line of lyrics from any hip hop song ever written. Of course the same is true of any opera ever written.

“I like big bu……”

 

[László]

In fairness, I cannot recite even one line of lyrics from any hip hop song ever written. Of course the same is true of any opera ever written.

I can recite lines from operas, though not many, and they're mostly in Italian or German, so I hardly know what they mean.

Maybe that's not a bad thing?