The Generation Gap

Well I said that I would talk on the simpler time thing today, or is that yesterday? I don't remember, but I think its today, so lets just take it as truth.

I think that my sudden attraction to old music came at the right time, since GTA:SA takes place in the early 90s, judging by some of the things said right after the fall of the berlin wall. The game has some good old songs that came out just when rap in alternative rock were finding their place on the radio dial and when MTV still played shows about music.

In today's world everything seems to be more about trying to be too real, everyone would rather watch a show about some people trapped on an island than watch sitcoms, and because of this the last of the great sitcoms died off and none of them have been replaced.

The world that I lived in as a kid, the world that alot of the people out there grew up in is no longer here, the generation gap is about to be set, like those gaps on Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4. And these won't come up with an easy tap of any button on the controller.

I used to write these changes off as a fad, as if they were just something to come and go, like the Latin Music invasion of the late 90's or the small infux of Swing music. But reality tv, and sad sulky pop music mascarading as punk and rock are here to stay. Fake rap by people like Nelly is obviously what people want to hear, and who am I to tell them differently?

It just seems like this is a little early to draw the generational line, we're right on the edge of it people, we're the end of an era. What scares me is that because of the information age and the quickness with which things spread I fear that generation gaps marked by a huge turn of tides in trends will be set much faster because word of what would have been a smaller trend before the internet, will get further faster ensuring that is makes some head way.

Before I'm 50 there might have been another great change in popular culture, and not that I care about popular culture, because fuck popular culture, it does no one any good. But how will I relate to my kids if their almost two generations away? Will I one day be that old man asking his daughter how the hell do I use the computer?

It's just something to think about.