Comments by "Yesica1993" (@Yesica1993) on "I Know You're Angry, So Am I..." video.

THERE'S STILL HOPE FOR ME! Oh, a 75 year old learning to play drums? That makes me SO HAPPY!
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Maybe try to share some of your music with them? But I know it's so hard. Even adults are addicted to their phones. It's horrible. But don't give up! Keep finding good music out there. Or learn to make your own, if that is something that interests you.
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@alchemysticgoldmind4164 But I am sure this is not coming 100% only from themselves. I am sure you have guided them and helped motivate them and taught them discipline. Parents (noun) these days don't want to put in the time & effort to PARENT (verb).
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Why learn anything, when we have 24/7 access to all the information in the world, right at our fingertips?
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That's a fair point. But you can have songs to dance and about heartbreaks that are better than the dreck we see now!
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Much less an ALBUM.
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Do whatever you have to do to get your kid OFF that garbage! Take away her phone if you have to. She may hate you now but she'll thank you later. That stuff is poison. Maybe find a class for her? But there has to be interest and there has to be practice each day. Or else, no more class.
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I'm convinced the internet and especially now social media has decreased our attention spans. I am GenX so I grew up in the Before Time, pre-internet. I can feel and see how my own attention span has decreased. I am sure there must be actual scientific studies out there. But I KNOW that I can't concentrate like I used to. I can't imagine how it is for kids who have already grown up that way, and now the younger ones. I wish I knew more about the brain and this issue. I don't know if it's reversible. I find it terrifying.
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@happyninja42 Yes, there is that. There's also a difference between adults and teens/younger kids. That said, I'm GenX and I know most kids my age at that time loved music! I don't have much contact with teens these days, so I can only go by what other people say. And I do keep hearing that teens today are not as into music as kids used to be when I was that age. And darn, now I feel old again. 😆
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@happyninja42 I think the main point is that kids today are consumed by their phones. (As many of us are, no matter the age.) Even if they didn't follow music that closely, they had to be doing something. Sports? Going to the mall? TV/movies? I can't even remember anymore, LOL!
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Yay, I love Benjamin's channel! He gives me hope that reading won't die out. When I do see someone reading a book, I do a double take because it really is so rare. EVERYONE is constantly staring at their phones. I call them phone zombies. I can't even have a conversation of more than a few minutes with friends and family without them staring at their phone and ignoring me. Why bother talking? Even when we go out to eat, they can't stop staring at that thing. It drives me insane! I can't stand being ignored like that. What scares me is seeing kids at younger and younger ages, glued to these things. It used to be teens, then younger kids, now it's even toddlers and babies. I'm at a loss. I really am.
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I still have my CDs! I will never give them up. I never got into listening to music on my phone. I can't concentrate because I know at any moment someone might call or text and interrupt the song. Plus I never liked how it sounded. On that point, maybe I've just always had cheap phones. Whatever. I'm poor! But I just hate it in general.
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Oh, that's sad. I wish you wouldn't quit. There has to be some kids out there willing to work. You just have to find them somehow!
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How I WISH I could do that! I am so sick of these phone zombies everywhere.
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@alchemysticgoldmind4164 That's what I'm saying, parental involvement is the key! But that takes time and effort. And many parents don't seem to want to put in that effort. You also can't let the iPad/phone raise your kid all his short life and then he's 10 and you suddenly put him in music lessons (or sports or whatever) and expect that teacher/coach to "fix" your kid and work miracles. Parenting is work - and much more than just the physical work of housing/clothing/feeding them!
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Found the commie!
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That is so awful. And depressing. What I don't understand is why PARENTS are allowing this. They pay for the phones and the internet!
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Yeah, I was wondering about that part of it.
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Excellent!
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It's mind boggling to me that watching other people play videogames is not just a thing, but that people actually make money by having other people watch them play video games. My brain just can't process it.
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"An edgy colleague of mine said he will never listen to 80 or 90s songs because they are "too old" for him." SERIOUSLY?! Who even thinks like that?! And why? I'm GenX but I grew up on 50s-60s music that was already called "oldies" by the time I discovered it. (In addition to the current music of the time.) I never cared when any song was made. It never occurred to me to care. Like Rick said, it was new to me!
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Exactly this!
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Ha ha, that is just so cute.
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@petertaysum8947 Oh, for goodness' sake.
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The people who need to see it the most won't have the attention span for it. They probably couldn't even get through this one. ;)
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Re: Not practicing Seriously?! Why would a parent be WASTING money for their kid to have music lessons if the only time the kid plays is at the lesson?! Now THAT makes me angry! Covid took my voice class away from me. I will never get over that. I adored my teacher. I adored that weekly time. And I DID practice at home. Now that's gone. I'm getting back into practicing on my own, little by little. But it will never be the same as those precious times I had in that studio... that I will never, ever have again.
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That is so great!
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Oh, enough with the made up term, "ablest." Nobody's talking about disabled people, okay? Good grief.
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