![]() ![]() It's probably the same going the other way too I'm keep up pretty well with a number of newer younger artists and genres but the full impact might be lost on me, as a 40ish dude who doesn't go out as much as he used to (now especially of course but even pre-COVID!) But I don't think my enthusiasm has dimmed at all, and my most-listened-to musicians are always shifting and being replaced as time goes on. Billie Holiday sounds as powerful in 2020 as she did in the 1930s. ![]() ![]() I think it's easy to get a certain sense of the importance of '60s rock or '70s punk if you weren't there, and a lot of the music itself is timeless and fresh, and while the full impact of the music on society is something that cannot be replicated that doesn't necessarily diminish the full power of the tunes themselves. A fairer answer would be that listeners who weren't around to experience the political or social era-specific context of certain releases might be missing something. ![]()
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