It's sad when they have absolutely NO clue what you're talking about when you mention good old movies or music.

Examples: The beatles, The monkees, Abba, Enya (Oh, how I LOVE HER MUSIC.), Rick Astley, Herb Alpert, etc.

You may add to the list if you wish.

Don't Stop Believing.

 

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Living on a Prayer.

 

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Bohemian Rhapsody.

 

I slap the bitches who can't tell me a lyric from one of those.

 

 

As far as music goes, nowadays, they got some nice beats. But the lyrics can be questioned...

DOOOONT STOP~

BELIEEEEVIN~

 

also I feel the need to post this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGT8RbMaS-E

do not ask why

 

Oh and warning; it has language-not like it matters or anything; yes.

 

 

*ahem*

But yeah........it's okay though *pat pat*

I could go on and on about kids these days---but that video pretty much covers half of it.

i'm the only person in my geography class that knows who Kurt Cobain is. this saddens me.

 

Hey, Kurt Cobain called. He wants his shotgun back.

 

/shot

yeah I understand what youre saying I was replying to the post above me.

Sure, there was trash back then to. But think about it, the 70s, 80s, and etc, had legends like The Beatles, Nirvana, KISS, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and so many more who actually wrote their own songs and had talent.

Who do we have? Ke$ha singing about glitter. Rappers, rapping about drugs and sex.

 

Not all rap / hip hop is like that, you just need to know who the good artists are against the main stream ones that are in it for the money (and then rap about said money ).

Also hip hop was not really a recognised genre back then, which is why most of the artists you mention are rock bands and the like, where as now there are machines that produce the music for us. So electro, dub, pop, hip hop and things like have become so popular.

 

I say in these kind of threads that modern music is just as good, if not better than the old school stuff, you just need to know where to look to find it, if you go into the top 40 singles chart, you will be disappointed but if you search for unknown artists just trying to make good music, that is where it is usually.

Look at Britney Spears, did not write a single song on her latest album, everything was written for her and she just recorded it .

I met someone (a kid obviously, or I wouldn't be posting this) wearing a Queen hoodie. The little nub didn't even know who Queen was! Another kid also called me "sir", and I felt old after that...

just a small town girl living in a lonley world

she took the midnight train going anywhere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmDYrLLrydI

We need to step up our game. Our generation is really sucking now, and by the time we learn our mistakes, then everything is going to be too crappy to change back.

 

And Don't Stop Believing is over played.

hey why did it fade to black am i dead lol

Kids these days don;t seem to appriate the old cultrue. movies,TV,Music now a day's is quite horrible. I mean video games are getting alot better. So there are upsides to this generation. Are they idiots? well now that goes into oppion, Yeha The Shamepoo Generation/Net Gen is fantastic with tech, but with commucating,socializing, its useally down hill. Oh don;t give me that look new Generation,your always on your iphone's,etc, When was the last time you made eye contact with someone and had a real conversation? (not about hair care products, but about looking deep into ones life, or reading a novel, etc) Plus one thing I have def. notice is that the new younger generation has no real imagination. It makes me sad. Here is were socity can really increuse itself by combineding new and old into a grand flux. They rather listin to justin bieber and Lady Gaga. Listen to Queen, hell even the boy bands of the 90's had better songs . I mena they can have these horrible remakes, sure, but go soemthign with heart,soul,Orgianllty, (of course I wise man once sauid "everything original is a rip off of everything else") Like the New NBC Show Awake, that has lots of promise to it.

it's not just about old movies, tv, amd music, same goes for popular game titles like pokemon, digimon etc.

 

IT'S STORY TIME!

I was at a friend's house and his little brother was playing pokemon Black

Me:You seem to like pokemon

Kid:YEAH!

Me:What's your favorite pokemon?

Kid: ZORORAK AND RESHIRAM! THEY'RE SO COOL!!!

Me: I like Typhlosion, Sceptile, Blaziken, Latios, Charizard, and Blastoise.

Kid:......i dont know who they are....

Me:....oh god.....

Friend:....i know right?

Kid: I bet they suck!

Me:-leaves room-

 

D:

^

I totally know how you feel, but the other way round. No one really knows Pokemon Black because they don't really care about Pokemon anymore...how sad D:

 

All the classic singers I know are Theresa Tang, M.J and Elvis Presley.

And seriously, I don't know anyone from your list (Because of where I live).

Why can't I watch Pokemon without people calling me "Childish" or whatever?

Some of younger kids find looney tunes boing and don't know what batman:the amianted series or Back to the future is.Music: 30's to 70's

Movies 40's to 90's or present

 

how can you not like looney tunes!?!? and not know what back to the future is, that's like the third best movie ever. you can't not know what back to the future is. i deny that there is anybody on this planet stupid enough to have never seen back to the future.

almost everyone of my old class was idiots.

luckily i dont haf to look them in next year or never again.

That's it! I've had it up to here with this generation! (And my cat crowding my lap! Can't... type...)

 

We need to lock them all in one giant room and... re-educate them...

 

Set 'em all straight!

it's not all kids though, just about 95%.

Kids are kids. Don't expect them to live on our generation forever. Sure we get kinda sad for them not knowing our childhood/teen times but what can you do about it. Unless they are around our age and a few years younger and don't know squat then they've got problems.

The music in Brazil nowadays sucks, really...

There's an horrible new style called "Funk", in which there are only bad words or sexual references... How I hate that.. That's why I prefer to hear an English song.. And yes, some things from the past are awesome... Really, you may call me idiot, but I really prefer the old system of "boyfriend and girlfriend".. Like, a boy has to conquer the girl's heart, not come and say "I wanna kiss you..." or that thing called "staying".. So, yeah, the past was pretty much better in most of the subjects... *sorry for getting off the topic*

Well, we can't expect things to go on without change, the "new generation" is actually just the creation of the older, things change and we can do nothing but accept it. I hear phrases such as "The last generation was way better because..." or "In my time things were better..." but what is it worth living in a past that will never come back? And come on, I hate it when I hear people about my age saying "I can't believe this new generation...." since we are the new generation, can't anyone see? We created things like this and we can change it. I found another Brazilian here!!!!!!!!! Lu Xun, I agree with you on the funk matter, but then again, I'm a Hard Rock lover, and I can't seem I'm really keen on musics from the 80s either.

And I read soemthing about this generation having no creativity, come on, do you think that some 80 year old people are the ones who registered in Deviant Art or in many other sites that incentivate activities involving creativity? (take roleplaying for one, I've found at least 50 sites just in my language). I say we have creativity yes, however, most don't use it out of the internet.

 

From my point of view each generation has its flaws and its good points, I haven't heard of a perfect time/generation yet and don't believe I will.

well new generation's always going to be different than the old generation they'll say the same thing over the nexte generation after theirs.

YAY Brazillian! Another one!

Pikachu, really?

 

It's such a popular thing with my little brothers. But I can see what you mean. They have no idea that the Kanto anime was the best; they haven't even seen "Pikachu's Jukebox!"

This generation doesn't suck because of everyone that is a part of it! It sucks because of one group of evil people who are out to destroy all good people. They are a menace to society.

 

 

 

We must send everyone on the Jersey Shore to a death camp.

Omg, yeah. Nickoldeon actually used to be cool. I remember catdog and the old spongebob . But WTF....kid's not knowing who the Beatles or who Queen is? Kid's these days, watching southpark and Jersey Shore, not knowing a crap about actual music. This generation of music stinks also. Songs wanna have a guy/girl have sex with a person, while the Beatles sing about holding your hand...

my god...and I bet most kids don't know who the Violent Femmes are, or what the heck is Hotel California.

 

...sorry for my outburst...

 

It was not your fault Solantab.

If I have kids I'll let them play Pokemon Red.

But I have to play it first myself.

I listen to classical. What's wrong with classical? Nothing, just that almost every kid I've met tells me I'm nuts. I think older music has a lot more going for it than some of the music now does. Artists like Ke$ha and Lady Gaga just don't appeal to me, because most of their songs are about partying and premarital sex, being perfectly honest. I think music was a lot more tasteful and innocent in the older days. Of course, not all music applies, but you know what I mean. Just in general. I love the Beatles and ABBA. The songs, in my opinion, were just better written and more tasteful. I think it's sad that our culture is moving on past that--I think kids SHOULD see and listen to older movies and music. Just to give them a taste of what things used to be like. Just because it's old doesn't mean it's BAD. (An opinion most of my classmates seem to have adopted.)

 

MY BROTHERS DON'T KNOW WHO THE POWERPUFF GIRLS ARE. GAH. THAT WAS MY WHOLE CHILDHOOD. /stillhasPowerpuffGirlsbackpack