What skills or lessons have you learned recently?
As a Gen Xer, I’ve realized there’s value in staying current on music trends, not just for nostalgia’s sake, but for practical reasons, too. Whether I’m chatting with my son, keeping up with younger colleagues, or just needing a fun party conversation starter, music bridges gaps between generations.
Take today, for instance: my team of fellow Gen Xers schooled the Gen Zers in identifying both Depeche Mode and Billie Eilish. It felt like a blast from the past—like that time I won a music trivia contest on a cruise ship. Guess this is my jam!
Staying musically relevant helps me understand the world my son inhabits, gives me common ground with younger coworkers, and ensures I’ve got an edge when it comes to generational battles (or at least music ones!). Plus, there’s something energizing about discovering new sounds while reminiscing about old favorites.
So, let’s keep the tunes going and stay connected through music—it’s the ultimate time machine and social glue.
Categories: Children, Culture, identity, music, Pop Culture, Psychology, society, workplace
psychologistmimi 
There are all sorts of new indie music available on many download sites. WOA FM 99 podcasts feature a lot of them. Out band, The Silvers, have been featured many times. But we’re not Billie Eilish. Thanks for the post.
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It Was So Sad Dear Miriam (Not Really) We Had No Access
to Songs From the 20’s in the 70’s Even ‘Elevator Music’ Was
Decades Older Now in the 20’s It’s Common For Young Folks
to Relate to
Songs From
the 70’s As
Generation Gaps
Fade Away ThiS WaY
In This Modern World
We Are Exposed to As Much Overall
Input to Our Human Minds as What Flesh
And Blood Life Without Multi-Media Would
Have Literally Taken Hundreds Perhaps Thousands
of Years Before
Our Information
Age Now How
Different Our
Brains May Work
in Just One Lifetime
Of Mind Versus Centuries
And Thousands of Years Before
Yet Questions as Always What Innate
Instinctual And Intuitive Abilities Do We Lose
With ‘All
The Noise
And Colored Lights’
Probably Overall ‘Humanity’
At Least it Seems That Way
Some Days
Yet It’s True
We Don’t Have
to Be Part of ‘That Overall’…
At Least
Not ALWaYS..:)
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I keep track of my musical habits at Last.fm and by far most of what I listen to is from the 2000s and 2010s rather than my formative decades of the 1980s or 1990s. This frequently scandalizes my fellow Gen Xers when I post my weekly top artists list lol
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