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58 years old here, been into speed sports my entire life.. still am as a matter of fact. I still have stunning reation times, maybe it's genetic but I can do mo
by RaceWon 8y ago
58 years old here, been into speed sports my entire life.. still am as a matter of fact. I still have stunning reation times, maybe it's genetic but I can do more pushups than my age of course I work out. And I don't consider myself old, I like hop hop, some rap. FWIW.
- whorleater 8y agoIsn't convincing yourself you're not old based on your music tastes the first thing old people do
- padthai 8y agoBesides that, isn't hip hop like 40 years old? To put this into context to the HN audience, Unix is from around the same time.
- yborg 8y agoYou have to be a little more specific about artists. If you're a big Run DMC fan, you aren't going to convince anybody how hip you are to hip hop. And if you call it 'hop hop' you've got a 30 Rock moment : https://youtu.be/fiOMbqPHFwo?t=29s https://youtu.be/fiOMbqPHFwo?t=29s
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- jerf 8y agoOnce upon a time, maybe, but somewhere in the 80s or 90s music seems to have matured and while a lot of details have changed since then, the core hasn't. Where the "pop music" is today hasn't changed much in a while. I could probably still freak out my 65 year old parents, but I'm not sure what my children could do at this point to freak me out. Listen to things I don't like, sure, that's not very hard, but freak me out? Not sure what that could be.
- mattmanser 8y agoI was sitting in a cab the other day with the radio on, some pop song playing. To me it was an 80s drum beat with a 90s style ballad laid over the top. I lived through the rise of Grunge, EDM, Rap, Hip Hop, etc. and recent music just seems to be mish-mashes of all existing styles rather than anything new. It just feels like there's been no new style of music for 20 years. Last vaguely new style I remember hearing is dark cabaret.
- sirspacey 8y agoCheck out the early albums of Tycho and alt-J on Spotify with related artists.
- mattmanser 8y agoTycho is EDM and alt-j is indie rock. Not sure why you think alt-j is a new genre, listen to metric, London Grammar, the XX, arcade fire, etc. from a decade ago. It's just a slight variation on existing indie rock. It's good, but it's not a whole new genre.
- goldmouth 8y agoIt might not "freak you out" how would you feel if your kids told you their new favorite rapper is 6ix9ine. https://youtu.be/gAs9HZC9c7Y https://youtu.be/gAs9HZC9c7Y
- jerf 8y agoThere is content I would happily ban, and not give a rats ass about what HN thinks about my ban (HN is not invited into my parenting relationship, for both obvious reasons and ones less obvious [1]), but it's not the "music" that would freak me out. Take that same text and set it to Beethoven's 5th, and it would be banned. Take different text and set it to the same "music" and it would not "freak me out". I'd very strongly dislike it, but that's not the same thing. (I think "freak out" involves some virtue signaling against the music, and some conflation of the morality of certain styles of music. I have a hard time believing in the "immorality" of a style of music. Content, no question, but not style.) (I rather expect to "strongly dislike" what my oldest son ends up discovering and settling on as his favorite music. I expect he's going to discover "trance" one day and just adore it. To me it's almost the opposite of what I'm looking for in music. But other than insisting that I don't have to hear it, I've got no plans to cut it off for musical reasons. In fact... sigh... it's likely to be me who introduces it to him as something he may like.) [1]: I will say having watched our culture evolve over the past ~30 years, I've come to a greater understanding of the importance of watching what you take in, and I try to feed things to my kids that aren't junk. There's a lot of analogy to the way we are currently collectively groping towards a realization that social media patterns aren't neutral. But what the HN gestalt labels junk and what I label junk are going to be very, very different things. (And before someone jumps down my throat about even that, bear in mind that A: I'm not completely controlling everything; that doesn't scale because they need to learn to deal with this on their own and B: they have repeatedly told me that I do indeed bring the good stuff; I don't keep this policy a secret from them, and they aren't pushing back against it either, because I deliver.)
- mickronome 8y agoNo, many people even as young as 35 tend to have tremendous nostalgia regarding the music of their youth, to the point that I who rarely exhibit any form of nostalgia often have trouble connecting with them. Regarding other things, yes people like to make themselves feel young by adopting styles and activities usually associated with younger people. But music is more rarely one of them, especially genres popularized after their twenties.
- umanwizard 8y agoYounger than that, even. I'm 28 and a lot of people 25-30 (including me!) really love doing 90s music at karaoke and things like that.
- saudioger 8y agoWhile simultaneously getting the name of your music tastes wrong
- lbenes 8y agoOr maybe he's just more hip to the latest fads than you? /s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxDRKhrorHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxDRKhrorHI
- shrimp_emoji 8y agoAs is convincing yourself you're mature! I'm 8 but I think '90s music is better than today's music. Also I think classical music is cool.
- Buldak 8y agoWhat are speed sports?
- tzahola 8y ago>hop hop How do you do, fellow kids?
- creep 8y agoI love hop hop too.