u/MonacoMargolis

"Does Gen Z not care about Elvis Presley?"

"Are people forgetting about The Doors in modern discussions?"

"Is R.E.M. irrelevant to younger music fans?"

"aRe tHe bEAtlEs bEiNg foRgoTTen by mOdErN mUsiC fans??!!?!"

Chill, the quality of music isn't determined by the number of streams or how many Gen Z'ers have heard of the artist. Just because your preferred band from the 70s doesn't have +20 million monthly streaming listeners doesn't mean they weren't important. We are forgetting the most important opinion when it comes to music: your own. As long as you still enjoy the music, why get antsy or upset that newer music listeners care more about Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish over R.E.M./Dire Straits/U2? The older bands had their glory days and moment in the sun and the same thing will happen to Bad Bunny/Sabrina Carpenter/The Weeknd when they are overtaken by next big pop stars & bands.

Bigger picture, won't even the biggest music acts be forgotten to time? Are we expecting the people of 2126 A.D. to care about Ariana Grande or Travis Scott? The 1960s were only 60 years ago, which isn't even a long time in the grand scheme of things and we still remember a lot. (Assuming humanity is still here) it would be interesting to see what music from the 20th/21st centuries is still interesting or relevant to people born centuries from now. We might be surprised by what music we currently consider "important and relevant" actually sticks around considering how little music from the 1600s is relevant in our lives.

I’ll start:

I have never seen the Wizard of Oz.

I have never seen The Office (US).

Before yesterday, I couldn’t tell you the name of two Elton John songs if you asked.

Spanish is a global language and has evolved many dialects since the 15th century. Surely this amount of time has created versions of Spanish so different from each other that they are borderline mutually unintelligible, such as what happened with Arabic. For example, Moroccan Arabic is practically incomprehensible to Iraqi Arabic speakers despite both being called ‘Arabic’.

How well could a Chilean Spanish speaker understand an Andalusian Spanish speaker, or a Canary Islands Spanish speaker understand a New Mexican Spanish speaker? It makes me wonder if any dialects of Spanish created outside of Spain have essentially evolved into new Romance languages.