Do people stay stuck in the era of their youth?

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Or the point when they were the happiest?

Just watching Totp 2 and it’s 1996, I was 18. I remember it very fondly, still love the music from then, still like the fashion from then. I don’t wear it now exactly, but did get very excited when Adidas Sambas came back in and I wear my bucket hat on the beach and so on. I listen to other music, but that era will still always be part of who I am and I still feel the music and fashion was the best then.

Do others feel the same about their youth? If the 80’s was your era, do you still think a perm and Duran Duran are amazing?

As a mid thirties millennial I can feel my 00s youth is being defined as an era now, now there is separation we can see more clearly what our fashions were, music, lifestyle etc. I love watching social media content creators mocking our actions back then. It was a great time, but you really don't realise it then do you, and I'm sure my bias will always remain as to what a great time it was (on the whole, for me, it wasn't perfect as anyone rewatching friends knows ha).

I've found myself rewatching a lot of films made in the 00s recently.

I was born in 1980 and I love 80s and 90s music. My brother was 10 years older than me so I expect I grew up hearing a lot of 80s music which is why I like it now.
Not sure about 90s fashion though and when I see photos of what my mum dressed me in in the 80s I shudder. Brothers both had perms in the 80s, we still take the piss out of them because of it, not sure that will ever come back

I agree. Music is boring these days, all the innovative, original, stuff has been and gone - I was young when punk came on the scene. I used to listen to different music to my friends when I was young, not the chart stuff. I prefer listening to musicians who write their own songs and play actual instruments and just got out there and sang without embellishments.

@RampantIvy

I hate Christmas music! We have this played at work, even when the store is closed!

No other time of the year are so few songs played to death.

If you compare two Christmas music CDs produced 25 years apart. 95% of the songs are the same. Just replaced paedo GG’s Xmas song with Destiny’s Child’s song

If you genuinely believe all modern music is rubbish and lacking in innovation you need to take a closer look imo.

Nostalgia can be nice but it’s also a bit of a trap - you see it all the time where people just get stuck in looking back and fail to see or understand what’s in front of them.
I think it’s worth fighting against. Life is much more interesting if you can accept change.

Sort of.

Duran Duran and being at home wasn't my thing at all, but going to London to study and discovering live reggae and blues was. 😎

I prefer listening to musicians who write their own songs and play actual instruments and just got out there and sang without embellishments.

This is such a blinkered older generation thing to say! You're just listening to different music in different places these days, 4 of my favourite artists have released albums this year and they all write or co-write all their own songs. Being a 00s child I do miss rock music being in the mainstream more so there was more of it readily available, but just because you don't like a genre doesn't mean people aren't writing their own music in those genres.

If you want musicians playing their own music and instruments, I recommend country

Are you my actual real life friend H? If not you should meet up she is similarly obsessed !

I’m a 70’s kid but my play list is both ancient and modern - still rate The Jam as all time best band ever though.

Yes, I never listen to music past the mid 90's - just not interested

A lot of people do and it’s a natural instinct.

I have to say I find it a bit limiting and naff when people can’t identify with music outside their “era” though. Time didn’t magically stop when “your” decade ended.

I was coming of age in the late 80s and early 90s and I have contemporaries who go on about how all music since the year 2000 is shit. I find that attitude really frustrating. You’re just closing your mind off and turning into your parents.

I have taken a closer look, and didn't much like what I found. I keep up-to-date with everything else going on, I just don't like boring modern music. Gasp, horror, I even like music going right back to the 1930s and 40s.

I have to say I find it a bit limiting and naff when people can’t identify with music outside their “era” though. Time didn’t magically stop when “your” decade ended.

Agreed, I can't imagine NEVER being excited about a new album ever again? How tedious to listen to the same music over and over! I love nostalgia and I do listen to older music frequently, but equally love to listen to new stuff too, few things in life beat that feeling of finding a new album to love.

When I was young the majority of people played instruments and wrote their own songs, you cannot say the same of today. I like lots of different types of music, including rock, folk, jazz, blues, R&B, swing, country rock, even some bluegrass. Music is actually my main passion in life and you won't convince me that the music of the past is not better than MOST of today's.

You do realise that many of the musicians of the past are still releasing new albums and that time didn't magically stop when "their" decade ended?

@NattyTurtle when people say they don't listen to "modern music" I entirely assume they're not buying any new music, even from artists that have been around since the times you approve of. Many of my favourite artists have been playing for decades but their music changes, a new album is a new album.

There was a lot of absolute dross in the past as well, though. It’s just most of that isn’t still remembered.

And I can’t think of a single era when MOST people wrote their own songs. Some did, some didn’t - just like today.

@NattyTurtle I don't believe anyone who says music is their "main passion" would hold the views you do, you're being deliberately obtuse and ignorant to project an image. Sure say you don't like chart stuff, or mass produced mainstream stuff, but there is some amazing music coming out from young artists in different places, you obviously just don't know where to look, despite your "passion"

A mixture. I do listen to a lot of new music though on Radio 1 but I come over all misty eyed when I hear Ah ha etc.
I do still love a good rave and dance music %( teen in thd 90s).

I'm probably being a bit of a misery! My teen years were epically shit as my parents seemed to want me to be the exact opposite of cool....think old man's clothes on a teen girl 🙄
So for me the 90's are mainly bad memories, the early 2000's when I left home and had my own disposable income on the other hand were amazing! I think I bought the entire Rimmel counter and threw in a bit of Bourgeois eyeshadow for good measure 😆 I loved Ghost perfume and spent most Saturday afternoons in Bay Trading buying a new outfit for clubbing later that night.
I hope my kids have the same nostalgic feelings towards their teen years that so many people have on here.

Thankfully not, the looks/fashion of my youth never suited me then and would not now! Still listen to some of the music I did then, but some I never do.

Hell yes, and not ashamed to admit it.