Last night my 5 year old was in the kitchen rocking out to a Eurythmics song. When I was 5 we didn't have access to music that was 40 years old.
The relationship music has with time is broken now, and to the kids it's all either just good music or bad music and that's it.
this may be true but I will say back when I was five I also didn’t understand that Creedence was older than Janet Jackson. it was all just music I heard
I lament that younger generations don’t listen to albums all the way through anymore, but I fucking celebrate every playlist they make with Wham! next to the White Stripes or Hall and Oats next to Alabama Shakes. They like what they like and seem not to care about genre or era, which is laudable.