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Are Gen Z’s Really Different than Millennials?
- Thread starter Y2kTheNewOldies
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On "Beat Shazam" the audience members and even contestants really seem to like music from the 70s, 60s and even 50s.Are we gonna focus on our differences, or get to experience our similarities? I've got grandchildren who love oldies and great-grandchildren who are tapping their feet to big band music. They like melody and are identifying with it - almost calling it their own - just because they were exposed to it. My children are baffled, but are accepting it.
Sounds like it may be more of a personal problem arising from one’s own choices in how to use the platform.
Are we gonna focus on our differences, or get to experience our similarities? I've got grandchildren who love oldies and great-grandchildren who are tapping their feet to big band music. They like melody and are identifying with it - almost calling it their own - just because they were exposed to it. My children are baffled, but are accepting it.
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Good Point I went to this place and I made the assumption initially that everybody in that venue was reliving their teens and early 20's in 2001-2005. When I went in the venue I found out everybody there was really in their early 20's in 2020. I had no idea some members of Gen Z was interested in music I listened to in the 2000's and they came through the venue via Tik Tok and Instagram according to the responses in the forum I went to. I had no idea I had something in common with a certain portion of Gen Z.
Henry nailed it. I’ve had students who won’t watch a black and white movie because it is black and white. Kids who won’t go to a restaurant unless they can order through an app and just pick up their food because they don’t want the interaction with somebody else. Even the anonymous interaction of a person on the other side of a drive-thru speaker. Some even call themselves antisocial. Grubhub is just as much a source of the atomization as the decline in FM listening. It’s all about a way of life.
What’s lacking in much of the online interaction is the human touch, and I don’t mean just physically. It’s the human touch of a radio dj. You connected with the best of them as real people. Something about them came through and worked with your imagination, which was a big part of it for me. The closest we had to a podcaster was an MTV vj. Maybe it’s just my age age, but that felt different than watching a podcaster. We were sharing something in common. Many podcasters leave me feeling like they're talking at me.
Something else that’s missing is an extended lifespan to much of the product, and not just with Gen Z. It’s a casualty of the digital age. If you’re getting your entertainment through Tik Tok there’s a very short lifespan to it. Today’s hot video is prehistoric in 48 hours. And with a billion active users around the world, Tik Tok product is buried almost immediately in the sheer accumulation of 15-second muck. Music and television in the pre-2000s had some shelf life.
As a generation, digital is the medium that Z’s know. They’re not going back any more than my generation would. The difficulty for any 20th or early 21st century mass medium is how to adapt in a world without true mass. And I’m not sure that nut has been successfully cracked yet.
What’s lacking in much of the online interaction is the human touch, and I don’t mean just physically. It’s the human touch of a radio dj. You connected with the best of them as real people. Something about them came through and worked with your imagination, which was a big part of it for me. The closest we had to a podcaster was an MTV vj. Maybe it’s just my age age, but that felt different than watching a podcaster. We were sharing something in common. Many podcasters leave me feeling like they're talking at me.
Something else that’s missing is an extended lifespan to much of the product, and not just with Gen Z. It’s a casualty of the digital age. If you’re getting your entertainment through Tik Tok there’s a very short lifespan to it. Today’s hot video is prehistoric in 48 hours. And with a billion active users around the world, Tik Tok product is buried almost immediately in the sheer accumulation of 15-second muck. Music and television in the pre-2000s had some shelf life.
As a generation, digital is the medium that Z’s know. They’re not going back any more than my generation would. The difficulty for any 20th or early 21st century mass medium is how to adapt in a world without true mass. And I’m not sure that nut has been successfully cracked yet.
Such an awful show. Tried to watch once and couldn't take it.
That's what older folks were saying in the 90's and early 2K's too.
Probably because a lot of it was true. I lived in Seattle when all of the grunge and 90's ethic was occurring. I was hanging out with a lot of them.
One thing I noticed right off is that they were more open minded than Boomers were about music and trends from earlier eras. They also were more open minded in other ways, too. You could see it in the music as well.
I think it was Andy Warhol that said we'd all get our 15 minutes of fame -- he was right. So was Alvin Toffler (Future Shock).
I think of the websites I remember hanging out at in the mid to late 2000's, and many of them are gone. Even the internet age has a shelf life, and like you say -- it's fairly compressed. Sites like MySpace and MP3.com had maybe three years of glory? Maybe 4?
The big tech companies now have a bit longer shelf life, but they have tentacles in a lot of areas of commerce, not just interactive media, and that probably gives them a bit more longevity.
In a way, it's still surprising that radio has survived as a vital form of electronic media for close to 100 years.
It's been over a hundred years. KDKA aired the Harding-Cox election results in 1920!
I remember Geocities (division of Yahoo), Angelfire, Tripod were the biggest web hosting services from 2000-2005 but these services became overshadowed by Blogspot (division of Google), WordPress, Squarespace, Wix for website hosting services.
WordPress at this point has went on to have a bigger shelf life than even Geocities had in its height given that many corporations and media outlets have went on to build websites out of this venue.
I remember YouTube in it's early years 2005-2007 was seen as the Tik Tok of the era. There was a similar argument about YouTube attracting short attention spans in that era where one video would be trending one day and then ancient the next day. But that was until some mainstream outlets content came into play such as music labels, colleges and universities posting lectures, Khan Academy, and news outlets started appearing on YouTube and making the outlet viable with a long term shelf life once Google took over.
I record it and watch only when the songs are being guessed, fast-forwarding through the rest of it.
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