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by BLKNSLVR 2007 days ago
There's liking music and then there's nostalgia. I think they're two different things but they both sound the same.

If a person only likes the music of their generation then they don't like music, they like nostalgia.

There's music I liked as I was growing up, loved in fact, but listening to it now is like listening to myself talking about "what I want to be when I grow up"; it's a child's narrow perspective of the world. Some music that I liked I'm embarrassed by, although I understand it was a journey to my musical appreciation of today, and so I'm deeply thankful for its part in that journey.

I'm not a particularly nostalgic person, so I'm immune to that effect of music, so I think I can offer a somewhat more objective viewpoint.