Day 4,177—Happy Friday: New Old Music—

 

The music I listened to when I was 16 has almost disappeared from my life completely; most of it I am embarrassed that I liked at all, but yesterday I played some Saves the Day, which led me to Taking Back Sunday, the Ataris, and Box Car Racer. It is a sound that will always feel so late 90s, early 2000s, right around the year when I became the person I stayed for most of my formative years. For so long, I was shy, always stumbling over my words and getting upset so easily, and then suddenly I was cool, and people wanted to be my friend. It is not like it lasted forever, but I remember that feeling of urgency, that feeling of energy to do and pursue what I wanted and knowing that I had a place to go where everyone would leave me alone.

        I don’t know how long this return to the old music will last. At first, all I listened to was Christian music, music from the '60s, and adult contemporary, but then suddenly I was listening to stuff coming out recently, and it was exciting. It was exciting to discover the sounds that captured that feeling of wanting to go somewhere. Even if the destination was unknown, there was a destination, and we were tired of the older generation trying to hold us back, trying to tell us that we didn’t deserve a place in society. I think we were the last generation to redefine music into something completely different. Now, all the new music is a rehash of the same thing. There are some artists doing something different, but they’re few and far between, and they’re old, not kids in their 20s going full speed into the unknown, but I hope I am wrong. Instead, the kids these days are expressing themselves in different mediums.