Hackenbush Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 Breaking news on Fox today! 🙄 https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jeopardy-fans-dumbfounded-contestants-fail-recognize-legendary-rockers  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZ98 Posted December 1, 2023 Share Posted December 1, 2023 This isn't surprising. The last time they were a big story in the news was 2007, which was 16 years ago. Also, popular music has moved on and Rock is no longer the center of the popular music universe like it once was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 It depends on the age of the contestants. I'd fully expect most Baby Boomers to know the answer, and at least half of Generation X, but beyond that all bets are off. I remember about five years ago I asked a Millennial to name in reverse order the US Presidents. They struggled to reply "Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton"...silence...   Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy was released 50 YEARS ago, but it's not so much like asking a kid in 2000 to name a number one album from 1950. Rather, the realization that there are fewer and fewer truly universal pop culture points of reference being established within the 21st century entertainment landscape. We had AM/FM and three main tv channels providing 90% of pop culture entertainment. These Tide pod eaters have 200 channel cable tv packages, streaming and the net.  Actually, I myself have noticed over the past ten years that whenever a so-called celebrity death makes the news I have no idea who those celebrities are. I'd be hard pressed to name three shows on television right now, or a single hit song on any pop chart. It's strange because not only are the '70s-'80s right in my wheelhouse, as expected, but I also have more than a fair amount of knowledge about pop culture from the '50-60s, whereas again the Millenials are completely self-referential. They think history began when they were born.      Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonfan159 Posted December 2, 2023 Share Posted December 2, 2023 Let's see how many elderly folks on here can name hip hop artists of the last ten years. I'd guarantee if there was a contest between the two the younger generations could name more classic rock artists than vice versa. You can chalk that up however you want but this is very much "people who don't share my interests are inferior". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Only Way To Fly Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 17 hours ago, SteveAJones said: It's strange because not only are the '70s-'80s right in my wheelhouse, as expected, but I also have more than a fair amount of knowledge about pop culture from the '50-60s, whereas again the Millenials are completely self-referential. Totally agree, today I was playing the soundtrack to American Graffiti. It opens with Rock Around The Clock and is packed full of great 50's rockers.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 11 hours ago, The Only Way To Fly said: Totally agree, today I was playing the soundtrack to American Graffiti. It opens with Rock Around The Clock and is packed full of great 50's rockers.  As I thought more about it I had the realization free form radio was in large part responsible for cultivating my broad knowledge and awareness of popular music. Nowadays, if younger listeners are tuned into radio at all, they're probably being fed a steady diet of programming lists that have at best a couple dozen different songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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