I Used To Be With It

ChaosEnginesays...

I remember watching this when I was 19 and thinking how sad that was. Why would you end up like that? I mean, I listened to new music all the time, but I could also appreciate the classics frommy parents music. They just needed to be more open minded and progress with the music.

Now I'm 36 and this is practically my motto. Most music these days is vapid nonsense. Admittedly, most music in my day was also vapid nonsense, but at least there was a decent alternative. I dunno, kids these days, with their iDroids and their facetweets....

antsaid:

Ditto. Get off my lawn!

antsays...

Ditto. I am a few years older than you too. [sighs]

ChaosEnginesaid:

I remember watching this when I was 19 and thinking how sad that was. Why would you end up like that? I mean, I listened to new music all the time, but I could also appreciate the classics frommy parents music. They just needed to be more open minded and progress with the music.

Now I'm 36 and this is practically my motto. Most music these days is vapid nonsense. Admittedly, most music in my day was also vapid nonsense, but at least there was a decent alternative. I dunno, kids these days, with their iDroids and their facetweets....

ChaosEnginesays...

I say embrace it.

If I can't be young and with it, then by god, I'm going to be the best grumpy old man I can be.

In fact, I'm going to go find a t-shirt nice sensible shirt with "get off my lawn" tastefully embroidered on the chest pocket.

Besides, I'm pretty sure these things come in circles, so I'm guessing we're due to be cool again any day now.....

yep, any day now....

now?

damnit.

antsaid:

Ditto. I am a few years older than you too. [sighs]

antjokingly says...

I am a grumpy old VS member on here. Get off my VS! J/K.

ChaosEnginesaid:

I say embrace it.

If I can't be young and with it, then by god, I'm going to be the best grumpy old man I can be.

In fact, I'm going to go find a t-shirt nice sensible shirt with "get off my lawn" tastefully embroidered on the chest pocket.

Besides, I'm pretty sure these things come in circles, so I'm guessing we're due to be cool again any day now.....

yep, any day now....

now?

damnit.

Paybacksays...

I remember when external wifi meant you had this cigarette pack sized box with a USB cable. Now the damn things are smaller than the metal part of the USB end.

articiansays...

The only reason people become grumpy old folk is because experience gives them the insight to discern quality from tripe, and because the older you get in our culture the further away you become from the honest, cultural evolutionary changes.
All we hear at our age is the shit that's pushed out on the radio (if you even still bother with that). That media has been shit since before we were born. If you had the time and ground-level access to the culture younger people are brought up with today, you'd find just as many wonderful, legitimate sources of art, culture and change as when we were discovering it in our youths.
Teach people to assess things honestly if they're put in front of them by someone else. Is Youtube telling you what the hottest 100 videos are? The manipulation is pretty obvious, even if the wolf is wearing a different sheep this time around.
Look to the origins of whatever is the current greatest thing to find the true art, and as soon as a genre or medium finds popular appeal to the point that it's exponentially mass-produced and formulaic, move on to discover the next thing. You'll never grow old that way. Don't get angry! Get wise! (and more importantly, raise future generations to have that wisdom as well.)

ChaosEnginesaid:

I remember watching this when I was 19 and thinking how sad that was. Why would you end up like that? I mean, I listened to new music all the time, but I could also appreciate the classics frommy parents music. They just needed to be more open minded and progress with the music.

Now I'm 36 and this is practically my motto. Most music these days is vapid nonsense. Admittedly, most music in my day was also vapid nonsense, but at least there was a decent alternative. I dunno, kids these days, with their iDroids and their facetweets....

JustSayingsays...

In the last few years I found myself constantly wondering how long ago certain things happened. It still blows my mind that Jurassic Park is 20 fucking years old now. I still clearly remember watching in the theater. Or buying the VHS tape. I'm getting old.
Funny thing is, I'm more "with it" than quite a few younger people I know. I'm always puzzled when people in their early 20s don't know who Miley Cyrus is or what dubstep sounds like. One time a colleague from work came to me telling me excitedly about Harlem Shake videos and all I could think was "this is soo yesterday and over, get with the times man". How can they not know this? I do.
Maybe I'm bound to be a hip old man. Weird.

ChaosEnginesays...

TBF, I've never been a fan of mainstream music.

I do still discover new music, but almost never from any kind of conventional channel.

I still want them damn kids off my lawn though

articiansaid:

The only reason people become grumpy old folk is because experience gives them the insight to discern quality from tripe, and because the older you get in our culture the further away you become from the honest, cultural evolutionary changes.
All we hear at our age is the shit that's pushed out on the radio (if you even still bother with that). That media has been shit since before we were born. If you had the time and ground-level access to the culture younger people are brought up with today, you'd find just as many wonderful, legitimate sources of art, culture and change as when we were discovering it in our youths.
Teach people to assess things honestly if they're put in front of them by someone else. Is Youtube telling you what the hottest 100 videos are? The manipulation is pretty obvious, even if the wolf is wearing a different sheep this time around.
Look to the origins of whatever is the current greatest thing to find the true art, and as soon as a genre or medium finds popular appeal to the point that it's exponentially mass-produced and formulaic, move on to discover the next thing. You'll never grow old that way. Don't get angry! Get wise! (and more importantly, raise future generations to have that wisdom as well.)

SDGundamXsays...

I thank VideoSift for keeping me up to date with important pop-culture milestones like dubstep and Miley Cyrus twerking at the MTV awards show (things I never would have seen otherwise).

JustSayingsaid:

In the last few years I found myself constantly wondering how long ago certain things happened. It still blows my mind that Jurassic Park is 20 fucking years old now. I still clearly remember watching in the theater. Or buying the VHS tape. I'm getting old.
Funny thing is, I'm more "with it" than quite a few younger people I know. I'm always puzzled when people in their early 20s don't know who Miley Cyrus is or what dubstep sounds like. One time a colleague from work came to me telling me excitedly about Harlem Shake videos and all I could think was "this is soo yesterday and over, get with the times man". How can they not know this? I do.
Maybe I'm bound to be a hip old man. Weird.

antsays...

I still have and use them once in a while. I still prefer old fashion cat5 network cables for stability and speeds with my desktops (no tablets!).

Paybacksaid:

I remember when external wifi meant you had this cigarette pack sized box with a USB cable. Now the damn things are smaller than the metal part of the USB end.

siftbotsays...

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