Let me start by saying this is a rant I was thinking about in the shower, I’m just curious to see if anyone else experiences this/feels this way.

I’m 20m, and I think some older people are ignorant when it comes to my generation listening to the music of their generation. First off I understand not all adult/older people are like this, I listen to a lot of older music, older than the offspring(Bon jovi, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, etc). So I’m used to older people being kind of suprised when they hear what my music taste is. I’m used to hearing things like “wow I haven’t heard that band name in a while!” Or “that was one of my favorite bands as a kid!”. Those aren’t the comments I’m talking about. In fact I love hearing stuff like that because it usually strikes up a thoughtful conversation. Here’s an example of what I’m referring to:

One day im at work on a weekend. Weekends are casual so im in jeans and one of my offspring shirts, when one of my coworkers probably in her 30s/40s says “are you even old enough to listen to the offspring?” Like im sorry but wtf does that even mean. Not only have I been listening to them since I was young, I even have their logo tattooed on my arm! Do these people just assume that because that music is from a different generation I have no access to it and no reason to listen to it.? And these are the same people who will bash a teenager because they don’t know who axl rose is or something. Now of course I just laughed it off at the time and was like. “Yeah haha they’re actually one of my favorite bands”.

Another similar situation happened a year or two ago when I was out with my mom; at the time they were playing a Bon Jovi song on the radio, which is my all time favorite band since I was a kid. I mentioned to my mom “hey they’re playing Bon Jovi” and the store associate helping us who’s a guy probably in his 50s goes “your mom probably knows a lot more about Bon Jovi than you do” in this smug ass tone.

Comments like these just come of ignorant and distasteful, like do these people not know that we have music streaming which gives us access to almost any song ever released? And the people who do say “oh your not old enough to know them” or “your to young to listen to them” are the same people who will laugh at you when you don’t recognize that one song from 1978 that no one’s ever heard of! I’m a very calm person so when this does happen I don’t get upset or anything, I usually just forget about it and like I said I usually laugh it off and move on to the next subject, but does anyone else my age experience this?