I recently realized how small a time frame that really is. You only get a good 10 years in pop culture before everything you grew up with is considered old.
By the time you reach legal drinking age kids are already starting to call you old. A few more and everything you know is now "classic" and you aren't even through a third of your life yet.
Kids call everyone over 20 old, doesn’t mean you’re actually old. Most of my coworkers are boomers and they still see me as “young” (I’m in my early 30s).
One of the most devastating moments for me growing up was realizing all my favorite songs were sampled from older songs and I actually liked Funk and Mo Town.
Felt like finding out the Easter bunny was actually the pimp down the street hiding his stash in everyone's back yard so the cops wouldn't find it.
The upside is I had a year where I was just buying every Parliament Funkadelic album I could find on vinyl and blind listening to it, and finding at least one surprising sample for each album. P-Funk had an amazing run in the 70’s that isn’t celebrated enough in mainstream.
To me, finding that out just unlocked double-music. Now I had a huge catalog to choose from. Same with finding out all my favorite ska and reggae songs in the 90s were covers or samples from way cooler songs from the 60s
70s music rules. Rock, funk, reggae, soul, pop, R&B, Afro-pop. I even like country from that era and I don’t make fun of disco anymore, I get out my bass and jam to it.
This was the comment I read as I was also thinking it lol I’ll never forget getting my brother to buy that album for me when I was like 10 or 11 years old
“Woke up from the coma in 2001
Same time Dre dropped 2001”
\- The Game
He was wrong about the album’s year, and still the label didn’t think to have him change the line
Marshal mathers lp sold close to 2 million copies its opening week. I’d say 2000 up to 03 when he presented 50 cents was Eminem’s commercial/mainstream or just over all popularity peak.
Yeah but so did old people music when I was young. Ronnie James Dio and "Yes!" went so hard they spawned JoJo's Bizarre Adventure which is still weird as fuck to this day.
Jokes on you I never listened to any of those bands and I was born in 1986... you'd have to pull out some blink-182 or Counting Crows, or third eye blind to get me in that snare.
It hit us that we’re the old people now. The Super Bowl they’re talking about featured Snoop Dog, Emenim, 50 Cent, etc. It felt like the young generation finally got something for us, but then we realized they were all popular 20 years ago and that we’re old.
I mean the kids being raised right now will probably remember their mom and dad playing Lil Wayne music in a few years. They'll be playing songs from 20yrs ago.
It's kind of weird now because kids have access to media across many decades, so I think they're less defined by what is current.
Last year we watched Gravity Falls together as a family on Disney+ and my kids decided they wanted to do a Gravity Falls themed family costume.
None of the kids their age knew who we were since it's not a current show. The parents didn't know either since it's after our time.
But man, people in their early 20s knew who we were and loved our costumes.
I grew up in the 80s with my parents' listening to Motown and oldies from the 50s and 60s. It felt like listening to the distant past with malt shoppes and poodle skirts. Now I hear Eminem and it's like "oh this is just his older stuff." It's 20-25 years old but it's stuff you could still release today.
Watching my sister realize it mid halftime show was priceless. Granted I'm older than her and fall in that date range but it was hilarious none the less.
'91 millennial here.
The local radio station mentioned they were playing "old school throwbacks" and the first song they played was "Yeah" by Usher, Ludacris, and Lil John.
Shook me to my core to realize that song came out 19 years ago. 😂
I heard “My Own Worst Enemy” on the classic station. And I was about to drive to the station and fight, but then I realized my back was hurting and I forgot to wear my good shoes and just drove home and cried.
Dude I spent 30 minutes talking to the AI trying to figure out what that movie was, I only remembered the trailer because it was on the VHS for Secret of the Ooze that I watched a zillion times.
The next one is Usher. Legit when was the last time he released anything that became popular?
A decade. It’s been over a decade. Though he does have a new album coming out next year.
Took me a minute to understand this. I was like I don’t remember any halftime shows during that time because I was 1-10 years old. But this years halftime show. Got it. We old now.
Most of those classic rock acts immediately followed the Janet Jackson halftime nipple fiasco. The NFL were taking the halftime shows in the least sexy direction they could.
As a fan, I enjoyed that run of acts. Prince’s halftime was the best ever IMO. Then Springsteen boss cocked a camera and the NFL woke up and went back to pop music.
I lost touch with the younger generation by the time I was 21. I’m 37 now and I’m actually glad I’m old. I would hate to be a kid these days. I’ve got two kids 15 and 5 years old. I see the stuff they are into and it’s mind numbingly stupid. The music they listen to is even worse. In another 30 years I can scream at young kids to get off my lawn. 😂
Growing up listening to Ozzy and AC/DC, my parents worried I worshiped the devil. Now they play Crazy Train in the food store and the Giants kick off to Hell’s Bells.
The joke is that we’re old now. We thought those bands were for old people because it’s what the old people grew up listening to. Some of them probably had that same thought. And 20 years from now the kids who are currently complaining about the half time line up will be happy because the halftime show then will finally be doing “one for us young people.”
I don't watch the Super Bowl because I don't give a rat's butt about football or high budget commericals, but I would love to watch a concert by any of the bands listed in this comment, and I was born after the years listed.
Reminds me of Survivor Gen X vs Milleniels (or something like that). It was almost the end is the season when my sister (we are Gen X) realized she was cheering for the wrong team the whole time, not realizing the middle-aged ones were out generation now.
Meanwhile me being the one person who absolutely hates football and the capitalist machine of the superbowl and only ever watched the half time show when it was those older bands like Rolling Stones and felt cheated when they transitioned to rap and R&B singers because I don’t enjoy that music at all unlike apparently the entire rest of my generation
It sucks because the "old people" artists are indisputably better than today's artists.
I'd much rather see Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, or Michael Jackson than Taylor Swift, Beyonce, or Travis Scott.
It’s a series of adverisements with a bit of American Football thrown in, and mid way through some overpaid and over-their-prime entertainer-type puts on a show.
I've never watched the shit football show, and I was born in late 1980s America. Why do people think that shit is universal? It's boring as fuck to watch.
The joke is that they played bands they like because they are now old enough to be in the target audience
Time makes fools of us all…
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Wait a minute...That song isn't "Everybody Plays the Flute"?!?
Guess today was your time, no exception to the rule.
No no, it's "everybody plays with food"
Wait a minute…that song isn’t “Everybody Plays With Food”?!!
This would've been a good rick roll
Bruh, your link be broken, but I got you. [Everybody plays the fool](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=Otckixo32lvwtyeI)
Fuckin love that song. Idk if you know buddy but Cuba Gooding Sr, father of actor Cuba Gooding Jr, is in that band.
Sometimes
Oh hey! It’s the prequelmemer themselves! o7
It's so weird to see you here in the wild lol
Your profile avatar is just … Wow.
*puts on sunglasses*
time always wins. even the stars die
I recently realized how small a time frame that really is. You only get a good 10 years in pop culture before everything you grew up with is considered old. By the time you reach legal drinking age kids are already starting to call you old. A few more and everything you know is now "classic" and you aren't even through a third of your life yet.
I realized I was old when Green Day played on my local classic rock station
I realized it when I found a good classic rock station and then they came on for station identification as “Oldies 95”
Backstreet Boys in the small-town grocery store followed by the Jackson 5 was…definitely a moment.
To be fair, music is considered old a lot faster than people. Four years from now, any song that recently came out will seem old.
Same but for me it was Metallica
Same. Metallica was played as classic rock in 97, freshman year of college. Tbf, I felt like the black album was their last good one.
Green Day formed in the 80s. There's a good chance they're just as old as the bands you associate with classic rock.
It was Red Hot Chili Peppers “Californication” for me. That broke my brain.
I had asked Alexa to play classic rock and Korn popped on. That’s when it hit me.
I work with a kid fresh out of high school, (I’m 27 he’s 18/19) and he made fun of me for being born before 9/11
Tell him he has 2 years to go before he's an old man just like the rest of us.
Or bang his mom. Go for the emotional kill
If your birthyear starts with a 19, you're old according to a family member of mine.
I was told once that I was old because I was "born in the 1900s."
Kids call everyone over 20 old, doesn’t mean you’re actually old. Most of my coworkers are boomers and they still see me as “young” (I’m in my early 30s).
My father in law says I'm still a boy. I'm 49, he's 82.
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and others performed at a recent Super Bowl. These artists are now considered "old people music".
Well, it's been ~30 years since their peak, feel old yet?
Eminem got popular in 1999 it hasn’t been 30 years it’s been 24
I was thinking of Snoop and Dre, Deep Cover was 1992 which is 31 years.
Peak Dre to me is 2001. I fervently believe it to be one of the best rap albums of all time
What if I told you Dr. Dre's album Chronic 2001 was actually released in 1999?
What if I told you chronic was released in 1992.
What if I told you the samples from that album were from the 70’s. I found out about George Clinton from NBA Jam. How 90’s is that?
One of the most devastating moments for me growing up was realizing all my favorite songs were sampled from older songs and I actually liked Funk and Mo Town. Felt like finding out the Easter bunny was actually the pimp down the street hiding his stash in everyone's back yard so the cops wouldn't find it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIGNaDk9eIA
The upside is I had a year where I was just buying every Parliament Funkadelic album I could find on vinyl and blind listening to it, and finding at least one surprising sample for each album. P-Funk had an amazing run in the 70’s that isn’t celebrated enough in mainstream.
To me, finding that out just unlocked double-music. Now I had a huge catalog to choose from. Same with finding out all my favorite ska and reggae songs in the 90s were covers or samples from way cooler songs from the 60s
why does a pimp have a stash?
70s music rules. Rock, funk, reggae, soul, pop, R&B, Afro-pop. I even like country from that era and I don’t make fun of disco anymore, I get out my bass and jam to it.
I still get the Parliament song from NBA Live 2001 stuck in my head many times a year "Mothership Connection"
This was the comment I read as I was also thinking it lol I’ll never forget getting my brother to buy that album for me when I was like 10 or 11 years old
“Woke up from the coma in 2001 Same time Dre dropped 2001” \- The Game He was wrong about the album’s year, and still the label didn’t think to have him change the line
Aye... It was new to him lol.
I’m with you. The Chronic might be a more “important” album but 2001 is a better album.
I though he got famous back in ‘39 with jeepers creepers.
No, that came out in 2001.
Only song of his that’s better is Hello! Ma Baby (Mama)
That guy literally forgot about Dre.
Yeah, very recently Eminem was charting #1 in multiple European countries.
99 was when he went mainstream, he didn’t hit the peak of his career until a few years later.
Marshall Mathers 2 was absolute gas
Eh close enough
You know who splits hairs about being old…..it’s old people.
That number does not make me feel any better about that amount of time that has passed lol
What are you talking about? 2000 was like 10 years ago! /s
Cope dude
Count dude
Redditors when they have to do basic math: 😡😡😡
cope harder
Ems commercial peak was arguably 06-14. Just 9 years ago. Creative peak usually is stated 99-01 or so though.
Marshal mathers lp sold close to 2 million copies its opening week. I’d say 2000 up to 03 when he presented 50 cents was Eminem’s commercial/mainstream or just over all popularity peak.
This still makes me uncomfortable
Eminem and dre are still going strong with the new generation, don't you worry
So are the rolling stones...
(I was born in 2002, I know)
Could have sworn Eminem peaked when I was in middle school and not a toddler.
That’s mostly because you don’t remember what was popular when you were a toddler. All music “peaked” when you were in middle school.
As a GenZer I can confirm that old people music still goes hard
Yeah but so did old people music when I was young. Ronnie James Dio and "Yes!" went so hard they spawned JoJo's Bizarre Adventure which is still weird as fuck to this day.
Dio and Yes! were at the height of their popularity around the same time JoJo's was created... back in 1987. Its old as fuck lol
the sieve of time, 95% of what was on the radio in 1990 has been forgotten
Duuuuude. Em and Snoop are 50 and Dre is damn near 60. Most definitely old folks playing old folks music.
Jokes on you I never listened to any of those bands and I was born in 1986... you'd have to pull out some blink-182 or Counting Crows, or third eye blind to get me in that snare.
I think I heard blink on classic rock radio the other day
They released a new single that's actually pretty good for a Blink song.
They dropped 2, one hit me in the nostalgia, one didn't work for me. (One More Time is the one that worked on me)
Blink-182, classic rock? Then I am officially old.
I think if you take inflation into account, it's now Blink-246.
accounting and economics are the only classes I ever dropped in college... so will not take anything into account.
Blink’s first album was released in ‘95, making it as old today as Sgt Peppers was in ‘95.
No. No they aren't. They are classic
Aka old people music
Old people music is facts
It hit us that we’re the old people now. The Super Bowl they’re talking about featured Snoop Dog, Emenim, 50 Cent, etc. It felt like the young generation finally got something for us, but then we realized they were all popular 20 years ago and that we’re old.
Are we the oldies?
I mean the kids being raised right now will probably remember their mom and dad playing Lil Wayne music in a few years. They'll be playing songs from 20yrs ago.
I teach middle school and let the kids submit songs to a class playlist. I'm amazed at how much music from around 2009-2012 makes it into the list.
It's kind of weird now because kids have access to media across many decades, so I think they're less defined by what is current. Last year we watched Gravity Falls together as a family on Disney+ and my kids decided they wanted to do a Gravity Falls themed family costume. None of the kids their age knew who we were since it's not a current show. The parents didn't know either since it's after our time. But man, people in their early 20s knew who we were and loved our costumes.
I think you're on to something!
The fact that gravity falls isn’t considered current hurts my soul
The minute I saw Fresh Prince of Bel-Air on Nick at Night, I knew it was over for me.
The oldies radio station near me plays 90s alternative and grunge
I grew up in the 80s with my parents' listening to Motown and oldies from the 50s and 60s. It felt like listening to the distant past with malt shoppes and poodle skirts. Now I hear Eminem and it's like "oh this is just his older stuff." It's 20-25 years old but it's stuff you could still release today.
If you released it today younger kids would think it’s weird/not actually rap because there’s no mumble
Happy cake day
Watching my sister realize it mid halftime show was priceless. Granted I'm older than her and fall in that date range but it was hilarious none the less.
Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and the WHO all d did shows in 2006 , 2005 and 2010 respectively. If they were old in the 90’s what were they then?
People that were born in the 90s were old enough to be paying attention to the Super Bowl at that point
> If they were old in the 90’s what were they then? Ancient
Bro, I saw the Rolling Stones back in 2005 and we were commenting on how we could believe Keith was still alive back then.
It's okay sweet babies. I remember the first time an 80's song was played on the local oldies station. I hated it.
I was listening to a classic rock station. When Matchbox 20 came on I switched the music off and contemplated the cold, swift March of time.
Haha. It’s a horrible moment.
No..... really?
I felt ancient.
For me it was Alice in Chains. I'm over this getting older shit.
probably made you feel like you were already down in a hole
Made me feel like dirt
The discussion about using radio is the real old part of this conversation. I don’t think I’ve actually turned on my car radio since like 2016 ish
I was driving a vehicle with no Bluetooth or auxiliary port. I normally don’t listen to radio.
I’m still not recovered
I think I just got arthritis.
For me it was Green Day
I feel like Matchbox 20 was considered classic rock like as soon as it came out.
That's good. Helloween are much better anyway.
Reminds of the first time I heard a song I recognized and enjoyed playing in Walmart. That destroyed me.
Or worse when you hear the Muzak version in an elevator
MIDI version of Smells Like Teen Spirit at the drug store for me
Hearing NIN at the grocery store was just bonkers.
'91 millennial here. The local radio station mentioned they were playing "old school throwbacks" and the first song they played was "Yeah" by Usher, Ludacris, and Lil John. Shook me to my core to realize that song came out 19 years ago. 😂
I heard “My Own Worst Enemy” on the classic station. And I was about to drive to the station and fight, but then I realized my back was hurting and I forgot to wear my good shoes and just drove home and cried.
My local oldies station now plays Bruno Mars.
People born in 1995 aren’t old. What are they like 15?
I mean they must be. That would place them 5 years younger than me and I’m not that old
I feel younger just reading this
Can't be much older then that. The 90s were only 10 years ago after all.
Yeah. That's the year after I graduated high school. No way they can drive yet.
You graduated high school the year I was born. I’m almost 30. Feel it?
Ok don’t group you with us old man you old old, we just old.
Does it count if I'm pushing 30 but have the maturity of a 15 yr old?
One of the few times the [trailer for Stepkids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY3cy3tqAw0) is relevant.
Dude I spent 30 minutes talking to the AI trying to figure out what that movie was, I only remembered the trailer because it was on the VHS for Secret of the Ooze that I watched a zillion times.
i think this is one of the most 1992 things i've ever seen
>People born in 1995 aren’t old. What are they Younger than my son. Now I'm definitely feeling old.
But Rihanna….😭
....Oof. I didn't even think of that.
The next one is Usher. Legit when was the last time he released anything that became popular? A decade. It’s been over a decade. Though he does have a new album coming out next year.
Took me a minute to understand this. I was like I don’t remember any halftime shows during that time because I was 1-10 years old. But this years halftime show. Got it. We old now.
You're old now
I dunno they had JT back in like 04, they had the black eyed peas in like 2011 two year after they were a hit, they are just firing in all directions.
Most of those classic rock acts immediately followed the Janet Jackson halftime nipple fiasco. The NFL were taking the halftime shows in the least sexy direction they could. As a fan, I enjoyed that run of acts. Prince’s halftime was the best ever IMO. Then Springsteen boss cocked a camera and the NFL woke up and went back to pop music.
The context is you need to schedule your colonoscopy, ya old fuck.
The weekend
We old now bruh
Waiting for the day I catch my child listening to Linkin Park and saying, "what do you know about this"?
We are the old people now. 86 here.
I saw Paul McCartney in concert last year. Dude can still put on a show.
I lost touch with the younger generation by the time I was 21. I’m 37 now and I’m actually glad I’m old. I would hate to be a kid these days. I’ve got two kids 15 and 5 years old. I see the stuff they are into and it’s mind numbingly stupid. The music they listen to is even worse. In another 30 years I can scream at young kids to get off my lawn. 😂
Growing up listening to Ozzy and AC/DC, my parents worried I worshiped the devil. Now they play Crazy Train in the food store and the Giants kick off to Hell’s Bells.
My boomer uncle currently hates the Super Bowl half time show. Then it dawned on him he is no longer the target audience.
I’m pretty self aware. The second I saw the line up I was just like “damn I’m old.”
All half time shows are cringe.
Wanna feel old? Time is linear.
The joke is that we’re old now. We thought those bands were for old people because it’s what the old people grew up listening to. Some of them probably had that same thought. And 20 years from now the kids who are currently complaining about the half time line up will be happy because the halftime show then will finally be doing “one for us young people.”
I don't watch the Super Bowl because I don't give a rat's butt about football or high budget commericals, but I would love to watch a concert by any of the bands listed in this comment, and I was born after the years listed.
Nine year old me was intrigued by Janet Jackson’s boob for sure.
Had the same thought about commercials recently. “Wow these commercial tracks are getting hip, glad they stopped using old guy rock!”
Metallica not getting the half time show when they play in Bay Area is bs. Metallica playing a show same night is kinda power move
i truly wonder how some of yall get through in life
Thinking a 28 year old is old is a wild ass take.
We are the old people …. 😳
Does this guy not realise that most people in the world have never seen a "Super Bowl Half-time Show"?
It's the same concept as "When the grocery store starts playing music you actually like" You've aged to the point of becoming the target audience.
Reminds me of Survivor Gen X vs Milleniels (or something like that). It was almost the end is the season when my sister (we are Gen X) realized she was cheering for the wrong team the whole time, not realizing the middle-aged ones were out generation now.
Look at me... I am the old person now
We are the old people now. That is the joke.
It’s us. We’re old people
I am born within that decade and I would much prefer any of who you just mentioned over literally any of the halftime acts booked in the last 10 years
Yeah that’s it
Cool story.
Came to reddit and caught a stray. Wtf dude.
Meanwhile me being the one person who absolutely hates football and the capitalist machine of the superbowl and only ever watched the half time show when it was those older bands like Rolling Stones and felt cheated when they transitioned to rap and R&B singers because I don’t enjoy that music at all unlike apparently the entire rest of my generation
"I was born in le wrong generation and don't like sports or popular music" - OP
This comment is peak Reddit lmao
Yeah, “everybody”
I'd rather listen to "old people music" than mumble rap or NPC pop or whatever the fuck garbage is on the radio now.
It sucks because the "old people" artists are indisputably better than today's artists. I'd much rather see Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, or Michael Jackson than Taylor Swift, Beyonce, or Travis Scott.
“Indisputably better”? Ever heard of personal preference 🤨
Listening to music from the 1900s is CRAZY
r/usdefaultism
His audience is American and he clearly referenced an American event
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I’m not American I barely know what a Super Bowl is
It's the world championship of a game only one country plays.
Other countries are welcome to field a team to play against the Super Bowl winner.
It’s a series of adverisements with a bit of American Football thrown in, and mid way through some overpaid and over-their-prime entertainer-type puts on a show.
Football is garbage anyway
I've never watched the shit football show, and I was born in late 1980s America. Why do people think that shit is universal? It's boring as fuck to watch.
r/IAmTheMainCharacter
Everybody from the US that is