My youngest kid was playing Billy Joel (Vienna waits) the other day, they aren’t even out of high school yet. Also loves Boz Scaggs. I think we’ve come full circle at this point. They also take music recommendations from me as easily as they give them, there is not even a hint of resistance, just “thank you for turning me on to that group they are so good” whether new or old, if they like it they like it, if they don’t, they say so. I was NOT like that with my mom when I was a kid, though I did send her albums I thought she’d like as an adult.
I’m middle aged, so adults were listening to classic rock from the 60’s and early 70’s when I was a kid, which I absolutely loved, and still love. My kid listened to the same music as a kid and loved and still loves it. I can’t imagine not appreciating great music just because it’s from an earlier time period. That would be destructively closed-minded.
My mom (now deceased) was literally one of the kids who stayed up late to hear “black music” on the radio and ran away from home to see Elvis, I wish I’d been able to record an interview with her before she got dementia. She wasn’t at all judgy (and I wouldn’t have had to run away to any show) just her taste ran to country and I listened to new wave and went to punk and hardcore punk shows there wasn’t a lot of overlap. As it was between her and her parents, so she thought it normal. The kids who listened to classic rock in my high school were the kids who wanted to beat me up, real conformist bullies so it took me awhile to come around to that, though I did go to Rush concerts with my brothers anytime they came around.
I’m not really a respecter of genre or age now, as you say, if it’s good it’s good. I love a lot of the new music coming out and some stuff from before I was born, plenty in between.
My youngest kid was playing Billy Joel (Vienna waits) the other day, they aren’t even out of high school yet. Also loves Boz Scaggs. I think we’ve come full circle at this point. They also take music recommendations from me as easily as they give them, there is not even a hint of resistance, just “thank you for turning me on to that group they are so good” whether new or old, if they like it they like it, if they don’t, they say so. I was NOT like that with my mom when I was a kid, though I did send her albums I thought she’d like as an adult.
Vienna makes me feel stuff; a lot of his songs do. ‘And so it goes’ is an emotional ride.
It sounds like your kid knows how to ignore social nonsense, and just appreciates good music.
I’ve been privileged enough to see a ton of live music. Billy Joel is in my top five best shows.
I’m middle aged, so adults were listening to classic rock from the 60’s and early 70’s when I was a kid, which I absolutely loved, and still love. My kid listened to the same music as a kid and loved and still loves it. I can’t imagine not appreciating great music just because it’s from an earlier time period. That would be destructively closed-minded.
My mom (now deceased) was literally one of the kids who stayed up late to hear “black music” on the radio and ran away from home to see Elvis, I wish I’d been able to record an interview with her before she got dementia. She wasn’t at all judgy (and I wouldn’t have had to run away to any show) just her taste ran to country and I listened to new wave and went to punk and hardcore punk shows there wasn’t a lot of overlap. As it was between her and her parents, so she thought it normal. The kids who listened to classic rock in my high school were the kids who wanted to beat me up, real conformist bullies so it took me awhile to come around to that, though I did go to Rush concerts with my brothers anytime they came around.
I’m not really a respecter of genre or age now, as you say, if it’s good it’s good. I love a lot of the new music coming out and some stuff from before I was born, plenty in between.