Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "What Everyone Gets Wrong About Their Favorite Artist" video.

I think it's partially survivorship bias. The '60s had a massive amount of diversity in terms of the types of songs and types of artists that were releasing music. A lot of them were writing their own stuff and there were a significant number of labels out there. So, while there were a bunch of one hit wonders, the ones that stood the test of time had a lot of competition. The Beatles didn't show up and dominate things with no competition, they had to duke it out with the Beach Boys riding on the back of Brian Wilson's song writing. These days though, the industry execs have a tight rein on all of it and aren't willing to allow the sort of experimentation and competition that might lead to groups that people might want to listen to in 20 years ago. There's only been a bit over a century of recorded music, there's still plenty of space for new music to be recorded that people might like just as much. The industry is just too afraid to give up the control over it.
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You probably shouldn't have been. If you go on any video of music from the '50s, '60s, '70s or even sometimes into the '90s, you'll see a bunch of kids posting about how cool the music and wishing the modern stuff was as good. I don't think it's an accident, there was so much diversity of sound in the '60s in particular that there's something for just about everybody.
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Yep, I think that the kids today see the same things in the old stuff that Gen X did. My parents are Boomers and so I heard a lot of music from the '50s through the mid-70s when they were around. I also heard more recent stuff, but it doesn't seem weird to me at all to listen to older music, good music, the really good stuff, has a way of remaining worth listening to well past the era during which it was written. It's just that it's only been in recent decades when there was the kind of access we have now to older music.
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