Oct 2, 2023 03:55 PM
https://youtu.be/Ag4iFa6E_yY
VIDEO EXCERPTS: I realized this is why kids that I meet, for most of them, are just not interested in music. They like video games.
When I was growing up [...] the things that you shared with your friends, you'd hang out, you'd go to your friend's house, you'd sit around in their basement, listen to records, and talk and do things. You develop all these memories that were associated with these songs at the time. [...] It was different music than your parents grew up ... this was our music
But nowadays [...] the Gen-Z kids, they grew up with the internet, with Wi-Fi, iPhones started in 2007 ... they have only known a world ... of gaming. They're talking to their friends, and they're all playing together. Many times they're playing by themselves, but interacting with their friends at the same time.
I can understand why music doesn't play a role in kids lives because of the addictive nature of these video games.
[...] The thing that's interesting is that the kids now, they don't want to emulate musicians like I wanted to.
[...] Most of the kids that I meet today -- and I meet kids, I go to my kids schools, I talk to classes, things like that -- I interact with teenagers all the time.
And the one thing that that's really common is that many of them are not engaged at all with music. They just don't care about it.
Just doesn't occupy any part of their day because it's not interesting enough. There's no visual thing, there's no reward of winning -- of shooting things, of doing whatever they're doing.
[...] You have things like Twitch that people sit around and watch live streams ... for eight hours people watch video gaming. For eight hours they're not even playing (watching others play).
Some of these video games have music in them, but do the kids really pay attention to music? Does it make them go out and seek out music afterwards? No, I don't think so. Not many of them.
Why Gen-Z doesn't care about music
VIDEO EXCERPTS: I realized this is why kids that I meet, for most of them, are just not interested in music. They like video games.
When I was growing up [...] the things that you shared with your friends, you'd hang out, you'd go to your friend's house, you'd sit around in their basement, listen to records, and talk and do things. You develop all these memories that were associated with these songs at the time. [...] It was different music than your parents grew up ... this was our music
But nowadays [...] the Gen-Z kids, they grew up with the internet, with Wi-Fi, iPhones started in 2007 ... they have only known a world ... of gaming. They're talking to their friends, and they're all playing together. Many times they're playing by themselves, but interacting with their friends at the same time.
I can understand why music doesn't play a role in kids lives because of the addictive nature of these video games.
[...] The thing that's interesting is that the kids now, they don't want to emulate musicians like I wanted to.
[...] Most of the kids that I meet today -- and I meet kids, I go to my kids schools, I talk to classes, things like that -- I interact with teenagers all the time.
And the one thing that that's really common is that many of them are not engaged at all with music. They just don't care about it.
Just doesn't occupy any part of their day because it's not interesting enough. There's no visual thing, there's no reward of winning -- of shooting things, of doing whatever they're doing.
[...] You have things like Twitch that people sit around and watch live streams ... for eight hours people watch video gaming. For eight hours they're not even playing (watching others play).
Some of these video games have music in them, but do the kids really pay attention to music? Does it make them go out and seek out music afterwards? No, I don't think so. Not many of them.
Why Gen-Z doesn't care about music