Why don't today's high schoolers like any good music?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

But my music was around and popular with teenagers in 1988.

Plenty of things have lifespans of more than fourteen but less than twenty-eight years.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Today's high schoolers like rap, pop, EDM, etc. not your weird hardcore and emo sh!t.

Exactly, their musical taste is garbage.

Or maybe you're just an out of touch old fart, what are you, like 40?

35.

Thing is if I go on forums about music that high schoolers loved when I was in high school it's all people my age.

Yes, because high schoolers loved it when you were in high school, and those people, having been high schoolers when you were in high school, are roughly your age.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Today's high schoolers like rap, pop, EDM, etc. not your weird hardcore and emo sh!t.

Exactly, their musical taste is garbage.

Or maybe you're just an out of touch old fart, what are you, like 40?

35.

Thing is if I go on forums about music that high schoolers loved when I was in high school it's all people my age.

Yes, because high schoolers loved it when you were in high school, and those people, having been high schoolers when you were in high school, are roughly your age.

Yes but there was a perhaps largely naive assumption common st the time that since only high schoolers liked it we'd outgrow it.

That makes sense. I'm a little less than a decade younger than you and people my age had the same trajectory about, say, Paramore (a band that I heard a newly-ordained priest bring up in a sermon last weekend).