01-25-2020, 02:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-25-2020, 02:20 AM by Eric the Green.)
(01-24-2020, 06:00 PM)Ghost Wrote:(01-24-2020, 04:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(01-24-2020, 08:56 AM)Ghost Wrote:(01-24-2020, 12:24 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(01-23-2020, 10:09 PM)Ghost Wrote: Do you agree with this breakdown (Using the years 1981-2003)?
1981-1984: Columbine Generation (those in high school during the Columbine shootings)
1985-1990: Recession Generation (those affected the most by the Recession)
1991-1995: Electropop Generation (the stereotypical electropop fanbase)
*Margin of error: People born as late as 1998 may fall under this category, considering that they were the last to be at high school before electropop completely fizzled out (early or mid 2013). I think that 1998 borns are similar to 1986 and 1977 borns in this matter; 1986 borns being the last to be at high school before teen pop fizzled out (early or mid 2001) and 1977 borns being the last to be at high school before glam metal fizzled out (early or mid 1992). However, we are only focusing on the "average Joe" electropop audience.
1996-1999: Gamergate Generation (the stereotypical young far right and far left people)
2000-2003: Activist Generation (those in high school during the Parkland shootings as well as the stereotypical attendees of the September 2019 climate strikes)
*Margin of error: "Activist Generation" could be pushed as far back as 1997 because Hunter Pollack, a Parkland activist, was born in 1997.
Maybe; I don't know. It seems plausible and perhaps correct. But I doubt that a single event can cause a defining response by only one sub-generation. There are a lot of events and family conditions that define a generational group, and there are a lot of traits that characterize one.
The recession has affected millennials the most, but I think it affected the whole generation. I am skeptical that electropop defined a generation. There are a lot of styles going on in pop at any time, and I don't think any one style predominates these days. I thought the 2012-2013 period was the best in pop music since at least the early 1980s, but I would not define the best songs of those years as just "electropop." It could be defined as part at least of the heyday of the solo girl artist. But perhaps you know more about today's youth and music styles than I do.
The Columbine shootings, the Recession, Gamergate, and the Parkland shootings were all events that undeniably had a very high magnitude (but at the same time weren't 9/11).
Gamergate? I don't even know what that is.
It's arguably the event that started the "SJW vs. Alt-right" war.
It could also be argued that this war has been going on for at least 55 years.