Snake People of the Big Apple
August 14, 2017 9:06 PM Subscribe
This post was deleted for the following reason: eh, I get that this is meant in a meta way but it's gonna end up as non-ironic fightbait -- LobsterMitten
"This is my favorite shirt. I love Buddhism."
I lolled right out of the gate.
Its weird though to have a conversation with someone where you make a pretty specific and well known lyric reference and they don't get it... and you realize that when Cobain died, this person was 4 - or not born. And it certainly isn't that they should know it - cultures change, but you get weird things like... If I play a Nirvana, a Soundgarden, a TotD, and a Green Day song - they won't know which one is Green Day...
I'm pretty sure by my 20s I could cite you a Beatles, Led Zepplin, Rolling Stones, or even Joni Mitchel song. I guess, part is that if they don't know it - there's no radio so their curated lifestyle means they actively don't have to participate in anything they don't know at all...
Dating, Music, TV - whatever - all of it is self curated. You don't have to listen to anything you don't know or don't want to know... which is somewhat sad.
posted by Nanukthedog at 9:40 PM on August 14, 2017
I lolled right out of the gate.
Its weird though to have a conversation with someone where you make a pretty specific and well known lyric reference and they don't get it... and you realize that when Cobain died, this person was 4 - or not born. And it certainly isn't that they should know it - cultures change, but you get weird things like... If I play a Nirvana, a Soundgarden, a TotD, and a Green Day song - they won't know which one is Green Day...
I'm pretty sure by my 20s I could cite you a Beatles, Led Zepplin, Rolling Stones, or even Joni Mitchel song. I guess, part is that if they don't know it - there's no radio so their curated lifestyle means they actively don't have to participate in anything they don't know at all...
Dating, Music, TV - whatever - all of it is self curated. You don't have to listen to anything you don't know or don't want to know... which is somewhat sad.
posted by Nanukthedog at 9:40 PM on August 14, 2017
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