OK, boomers ...
Fellow boomer here who can't take all this dissing of "this generation." I remember what it was like to be a teen in the late '60s. And I can tell you that Top 40 radio back then is only remembered fondly because that's all there was at the time. For every great song by the Stones or Aretha, there was something by the Archies or Engelbert Humperdinck that made you lunge for the preset button or twist the knob. And the mindless DJ shtick and the ads, ads, ads. Let me tell you, if streaming existed then -- with no DJs, no commercials, and only music by the artists you loved or by new artists who made the same kind of music -- I'd have kissed radio goodbye in an instant. Who wouldn't have? IMO, the current generation is doing just what mine would have done if it had the options we now do.
Fellow boomer here who can't take all this dissing of "this generation." I remember what it was like to be a teen in the late '60s. And I can tell you that Top 40 radio back then is only remembered fondly because that's all there was at the time. For every great song by the Stones or Aretha, there was something by the Archies or Engelbert Humperdinck that made you lunge for the preset button or twist the knob. And the mindless DJ shtick and the ads, ads, ads. Let me tell you, if streaming existed then -- with no DJs, no commercials, and only music by the artists you loved or by new artists who made the same kind of music -- I'd have kissed radio goodbye in an instant. Who wouldn't have? IMO, the current generation is doing just what mine would have done if it had the options we now do.