If you have been on the internet as long as I have, chances are you are familiar with the "I was born in the wrong generation" crowd of people that have been lurking all over Tumblr and the comments section of any old music video on YouTube. Most of the people who say this tend to be fans of classic rock who believe that "today's music sucks" and "wants to live in a time when music was good." Sometimes, people who say this are not saying it about the music, but are saying it about fashion or relationships or something else that they are not connected to with this generation. I honestly don't see what the point of these comments is.
The truth boils down to the fact that every generation has its ups and downs. No generation is perfect and no generation is the spawn of satan. These comments tend to stem from the fact that people have the tendency to glorify the past on the internet when this kind of glorification of the past is not really necessary. There is also the reasons why people on the internet have to resort to saying that they were born in the wrong generation that irritate me the most.
The people who say this about the music often say this because "today's music sucks, old music is so much better," when that is not necessarily the case. Not only that taste varies from person to person, but also when people say that "today's music sucks," they are often talking about the music that is played on the radio at every hour of the day. There is good music today, it's just harder to find and usually requires some effort on the individual's part to find it. To quote Filthy Frank in his "Born in the Wrong Generation" video, "You want good music? Go look for good music. You'll find it."
There is also the people who say this about fashion and romance that tend to bug me a lot. The people who say this about fashion tend to talk about how fashion trends in the past were "classier" and "showed self-respect," but do you really know exactly what self-respect is? What self-respect really means is how others do things that make them feel the most comfortable. Plus, the people who say that past generations did more romantic stuff and were not as obsessed with hookups don't realize that genuine romance and commitment is still alive and well today and hookup culture became a thing fifty years ago when the birth control pill became available to the public.
What I am trying to say is that saying that you were "born in the wrong generation" does not make you special by any means. There are so many people out there you enjoy the same things that you do and you are not the only person that likes music or anything else that is not from this generation.
