Originally Posted by
splanky
Jai, I'm not seeing that trend at all here in New York. All of the young people I know and meet are listening to the same
stuff, the current version of " R&B", some of which I do find listenable, BTW, and today's hip hop, 95 percent of which I
cannot stand. At the place I work in one area which is mainly staffed with kids 18-25 they have a radio which they periodically change the station on from hip hop to oldies to today's R&B to latin and back. That practice was instituted by
a former manager there and the kept it. Cool. Not as expansive as I'd prefer but somewhat democratic. The thing I've
noticed is the young guys merely tolerate the classic soul and Motown when it plays; nobody is singing along or grooving to
it and the volume level is just high enough to be heard around the room. When a Temptations song came on and I said aloud
that it was my jam back in the day they looked at me like I'd just told them about my bathroom routine. Now, the hip hop
station they blast and I mean really loud, too much for a work enviorment regardless of what music is played. Sometimes
when visitors are in the building on a tour they have to be reminded to turn the radio down. But nobody blasts My Girl or
Please Mr Postman. Never. It's "B*thces Ain't Sh*t or Real N****s Don't Give A F**k or whatever garbage spews from the mouths of Jay Z or Lil Wayne. And as far as other music, once I had to work in their room while a machine was down and they were on an impromtu break and I put the radio on a jazz station for myself, a couple of the kids passed through and they shook their heads like I'd lost my mind. I gave up a long time ago on trying to get youngins interested in our old folks
music. My nephew tolerates soul because his mother is old school but his ipod is full of that "straight thug sh*t" he lives off
of....
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