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I'm 37 I would say around 2005 is when i pretty much gave up on pop culture. To me nothing is as good as when i was growing up music, tv shows, movies, sports. The 80's and 90s are my favorite decades but now i'm watching more stuff from the 60s and 70s tv shows and movies. Nothing made today really appeals to me.
Gave up on pop culture? Never went there to start with. Even my teen kids today have more country and classic 60s rock on their iphones than modern stuff.
About 10 years ago. Don't get me wrong, it was horrible before that too and I barely paid attention to it but there was usually SOMETHING there that I found relevant and interesting enough to pay attention to. But not so much anymore. I keep watching, and I'm way past the age where I should even care, but I like to see what happens with young people and I just feel sorry for most of them right now.
About 1975, when rock became disco and the punk fad began and the pop scene has gotten worse with every passing year, imo. And the reality TV trend? YUCK!
(But then I'm an old lady curmudgeon-in-training, so what would you expect?)
I was the only kid into punk, mostly hardcore (NYHC), ska, oi, in my mostly Black, inner-city high school. So, that was kind of off-beat.
Then I started college right at the beginning of the grunge movement, so naturally I got into bop, hard bop, and cool. And a bit of new age and electronic, especially classic stuff like Harmonia, Jarre, and Kraftwerk, but also some more contemporary stuff like Aphex Twin and The Orb.
I also got into medieval music at the time and put together a little recorder and percussion combo.
Simple and straightforward question: when did you become disenchanted and/or unable to relate to popular culture? This could be a certain age or period in time.
Actually, your question is anything but straight forward. "Pop culture" is so encompassing that the question is virtually unanswerable. Pop culture by definition is anything and everything that is culturally popular and it is so exceedingly segmented with components aimed at, marketed to and plain out enjoyed by virtually every segment of any given population.
The examples given above are perfectly illustrative of my point. One person gives upon on current idioms but still enjoys popular cultural produced in previous decades. Another cites preferring "classical" country and western music... on their iphone, as if the iphone itself is not another piece of the popular culture puzzle.
Like I said, the question is anything but straight forward.
I went away to college at 17. I became involved in the college radio station. This was the 70s. I never got into disco or Peter Frampton.
At college, I stopped watching TV. No one had TVs so mid late 70s TV was not something I watched.
I got to appreciate indie rock, proto punk, The Velvet Underground - and all the other bands they influenced. Patti Smith. Telivision. The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Violent Femmes, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. Roxy Music and early glitter which was a movement I missed. Lou Reed has been one of my favorite singer song writers since then.
I like folk rock and singer song writers like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon.
Early country and Rockabilly are favorites too. Johnny Cash, Wanda Jackson, Patsy Cline, Jerry Lee Lewis. I also like free jazz. Art Ensemble of Chicago, for example.
I have never seen a realty show. I want to keep it that way. No interest.
Before I went to 'Nam in 1966. I never reconnected to culture since.
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