How come a whole generation of baby-boomers has forgotten the openness that was bring to them by so many artists whom they loved and listened to in their days prior to gentrification that led them to wear suits & ties or Chanel twin-sets?
Whatever your age right now, did you forget:
How "Elvis The Pelvis" made you wanna rock the world?
How The Beatles and The Stones made you want to free yourselves from conventions?
How The Jefferson Airplaine's White Rabbit pathed a way for experiences, even the simplest of ones?
How David Bowie - and all the characters he impersonated - reflected on the times and places he lived in?
The track-list never ends.
Then came the eighties and their magnificent lot of artists, from New Order to Eurythmics, from Siouxsie & The Banshees to Bananarama, and a plethora of music to dance to and ideas to think upon.
How come those who grew to such musics and questionings ever forgot what it meant?
I wonder.
How come millennials think they invented LGBTQ (they can go on for the rest of the alphabet as they wish) and pretend they're actually fighting while whining over social networks, when most of the job - and suffering - has already been done by their elders? This eludes me.
5 comments:
Well stated!
Yes, well-stated. Those hippies of yesteryear are the CEOs of today's world.
I agree... that the younger generations don't seem to have any appreciation for what came before them... which is why it should be taught in high schools and and is deserving of mentioning... gay history is history and history should be taught... unvarnished.
The younguns need some true schooling. But, isn't that ever the way of the world?
David Bowie: what nice sexy beautiful guy!!!
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