“Today’s music is so bad, music from 19** was so much better than this trash”

If you are in this generation and in contact with other human beings, you have heard some form of that sentence. But why? Why is this generation’s music automatically denounced because of the fact that it’s from this year? I’m going to be real here and some of you are going be upset, offended, or both: a lot of old music sucks. You can push me all the classic rock you want but that will not make me forget about all the trash that has come out in the last 50 years.

The 90s were fun. There was the rise of grunge and hip-hop to the mainstream and that was pretty cool. People seem to only remember that though. But let’s take a look back at 1991 when the world was taken over by one of the worst rap songs in history: Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice. You know the song and do not act like you don’t. Other 90s hits were “Barbie Girl” by Aqua, anything by Creed, Limp Bizkit’s entire presence, and THE MACARENA. You can boast about Nirvana all you want but no one will forget about MC Hammer. You can go into any decade and find songs that are so bad that you would be happy to be in 2016, rather than in 1981 and hearing “Mickey” by Toni Basil and “Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield everywhere you go. On top of that, a lot of the bands people praise because of that era, specifically 70s-80s bands like Led Zeppelin, Metallica, etc. hardly, if ever, reached a top ten spot on the charts. So you listening to it now in 2016 where it’s highly regarded to be the best of that era is probably way better than actually being there.

If you still think that music these days are just as bad, if not worse. Then honestly, that makes you the ignorant one. This is probably one of the best, and most diverse times for music and you refusing to dive deeper than the pop songs on your local radio station has nothing to do with the music itself. It just makes you uneducated. This also kind of derails the entire point of “this generation doesn’t understand 19** music” because all it shows is that you do not understand 2016 music, and really does not make me think you know more about music than me, it actually makes me think you know less. So play your Nirvana and talk about how if you grew up in the 90s your life would be so much happier. I’ll stay in 2016, where the music is great and I don’t need to use AOL or dial-up.