Some of my 16 year old son's playlist.

Born in 2002.
16 in 2018.

Some of his Google Playlist tracks include
The Beatles
I'll Be Back,
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Strawberry Fields Forever,
I Want To Hold Your Hand

The Beach Boys
Good Vibrations

AC/DC
Back In Black

2Pac
Can't C Me

Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams

KISS
I Was Made For Lovin' You

 

To guilt you out?

 

My daughter (who is mid 30s) texted me this morning to tell me she was jammin' out on the Beatles channel on Sirius/XM. She loves 60s/70s music.

 

could be one of those le-wrong-generation phases

 

No just not as narrow minded as many.

 

I have a 16 year-old son too. He's very much into the 80's songs:
Tears for Fears
Men at Work
He loves the "one hit wonder" songs like "Take on Me" and "Hold Me Now" and "Don't Dream it's Over".
He likes Michael Jackson a lot.
He likes the Beatles but prefers solo McCartney, especially "Band on the Run" (the song), and "Live and Let Die".
He knows all the current music, but he's more likely to listen to TOTO than Ed Sheeran.

 

Kids have decades of popular music to choose from, and there's no financial limit on what they can listen to.

I've met plenty of kids from high schoolers to millennials who have insanely deep playlists ranging from the new pop and hiphop most of us aren't into down to 60s and even 50s music and everything in between. They're a lot more open minded than old people give them credit.

dan c

 

Good post Dan. Music used to be sort of in the stores, then it would go away. Now there is access to any song, any time, at basically no charge. Think of all the money we'd have now if he had that opportunity

 

The Beatles and Michael Jackson! Best pop music of all time IMO.
Also great to see a kid listening to those "one hit wonders" although Crowded House have some really great albums aswell.

These youngsters cheer me right up.

 

Strange boy. Imagine how out of time you would feel if you were listening predominantly to 1920s jazz when Beatlemania took over the world in 1964. Rock and roll was youth music; “timeless” and “classic” was for the squares.

 

Narrow minded, how so? taking refuge in a consensus by mirroring your own opinions on subjective issues with your parent's or clique's or the local record store music snob's? Or how about every youtube comment section of music pre 90's, "I'm only XX years old and I listen to this, not todays popular crap!" Lol

"I listen to real music, not that noise the kids listen to today" does that ring any bells from when you were young?

 

Also Oh Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison.

 

And for all those comments how many views are actually that age group of the few commenting?

 

Well of course it would be suprising if the majority of those viewers would be of a young generation than the living generation of when the music was most popular, as would be if the music of a younger generation had a fan base with the majority of an older genertion.

What's not cool is for you to imply that if your son was listening to popular music of his own generation then he'd be "narrow minded", as far as I see he could just be a kid who is unsure of his own mind and subconciously doesn't want to disappoint his oppinionated father with a taste in music he may belittle as "today's crap" or whatever.

What's important is that he listens to what he genuinly, deep down wants to listen to and that those subjective opinions arn't stifeld by other peoples opinions such as your implication.

 

I never implied that he doesn't listen to modern music.
He does.
The songs I listed represent a small minority of his playlist and that's why I said "some".
There are plenty of artists he knows I like and he hasn't yet attempted to look into them.
With the exception of The Beatles he hasn't added more than one song per artist that is prior to his generation.
I said he's not narrow minded because he's attempted to explore a few older tracks.
I never cared much for Sweet Dreams or Oh Pretty Woman (which I forgot to list on the OP) yet he has those two and I don't ever talk about The Beach Boys.
He's aware I like The Beatles, KISS, 2Pac and AC/DC but again with the exception of The Beatles songs I'll Be Back, Strawberry Fields and Lucy he doesn't know my top Beatles tracks.
I was surprised he took so strongly to the very dated I Want To Hold Your Hand which we've never discussed and any KISS he's heard from me sure as heck wasn't I Was Made For Lovin' You.

 

I missed Beatlemania.
I'm 1970 buy but in 1986 at 16 I was listening to Elvis and The Beatles as well as Mtv artist and by my early 20s in 1991 Frank Sinatra.

 

Haha, this is true! I had never thought of it this way but it is weird indeed.
But it does happen in the real world, when I was 12 I listened to Justin Bieber’s Baby and then Janis Joplin’s Ball and Chain haha.

 

IMHO, that’s a good sprinkling of songs!
You mention “some”....
So, is that basically 1% to 3% of the songs he plays?

 

I remember those days...

 

You know people are still listening to Mozart. It really shouldn't surprise anybody that people are drawn to good music created before their time. I listen to Jazz from the 50s. That was well over 60 years ago. It predates me by a generation as well.

 

I was in a store today where the younger employees pretty much play whatever they're into. The first song I heard when I walked in the door was Ronnie and the Daytonas "Little GTO". I was thinking, "Man, I bought that single when it first came out and I was 13. How cool that they even know this stuff!"

 

I still have one of those!

 

But did you think; "what a strange boy" lol.

 

"Here's a list of songs someone listens to."

Fascinating.