Back in the 90s, 80s, 70s etc. was there people comparing saying how their childhood show, movie, music etc. was great and the current ones suck?
A nostalgic question
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Most probably. People might even say 20 years from now I wish I were around when Lady GaGa was making shit music.
I'm fairly certain that's been around longer than cartoons and whathaveyou. Why my Grandfather, when he was alive, thought that airplanes were better in the 1940's because you really felt like you were flying. I dunno, maybe he somehow liked freezing above Ontario while training to become a Lancaster navigator. Nostalgia is weird.
My grandfather thinks there has been a good singer since Ella Fitzgerald, my nan loves to reminisce about street parties in Liverpool during the war, apparently the Irish knew how to party, I guess that last one's just nostalgia in general though, not particularly entertainment nostalgia.Professor James said:
Back To The Future had a very rose tinted version of the 50's, so it seems even movies get nostalgic!
Short Answer is yes. Long answer is that time always allow the best to rise to the surface, which is what fuels Nostalgia.Professor James said:
Well my dad always talked about how new music sucks compared to old music, but I don't recall anything else...
Well, then there's the classic 'today's youth are so X', which is generally followed with 'Lazy', or 'Rude', or 'Fat', or 'dumb' or whatever other insult one can throw out, but that's not really nostalgia.
Well, then there's the classic 'today's youth are so X', which is generally followed with 'Lazy', or 'Rude', or 'Fat', or 'dumb' or whatever other insult one can throw out, but that's not really nostalgia.
People from the 60s are super self-assured about how their music was "the best" and how all music that followed was just a poor imitation and that all the poor souls that grew up in the 70s or 80s would never get to really "know" good music. People from the 60s are tremendous assholes.
People have been doing that forever, as far back as you go...
"Remember when me was kid, me used rock, now small ones use stick but rock was much better."
"Remember when me was kid, me used rock, now small ones use stick but rock was much better."
This immediately sprang to mind.Shotgun Guy said:
OT: Everything is a lot more fun when you are a kid, if you put that down to what you were doing/playing/listening to then you would want a return to that.
Very true indeed. But I'm thinking more along the lines of copyright. There weren't quite so many toes to step on then. Creativity and variety were more open. There's far too much reinvention of the wheel going on now. There was still some going on back then, but it definately feels like there was less of it. That may also have something to do with the fact that there are just more people around as well.Vault101 said:
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Not really. I've only ever heard that stuff on the internet. Even my parents aren't like that. They even have a few modern movies, shows, and artists that they like. My mom's an 80s person, but she also likes stuff from the 90s and even recently. Even I, who grew up during the late 90s and early 00s, like more stuff from nowadays than I did back then. I just don't pay attention to all the crappy stuff.