Perhaps when you grow older, you’ll remember fondly “your” music and find the music played by the majority of the current time’s youth abhorrent. This seems to be one of the perks of becoming aged: unquestioned subjective nostalgic comparison.
My dad doesn’t like a lot of the electronic music i listen to, and neither does my brother. But then, i doubt they’ve ever felt the electronic rhythms of these songs pulsate through their uninhibited gyrating bodies, surrounded by people feeling the same awesome experience. They don’t understand dance music becasue they don’t dance to it.
My brother likes rock, and doesn’t dance. Is it possible to dance to rock music? I’ve found rockers to be poorer dancers than fans of dance music, presumably because there’s 1) Not a lot of opportunity to dance to rock, compared to the much more popular club music choices, and 2) Who wants to dance to rock anyway? The top 5 billboard rock songs at this time are about anger, global damage and something about burning flesh and madness. The top dance songs are about drinking, dancing and love. Fair enough, one of the rock songs was about love too, but it also contained a hefty mention of death and haunting. Who’d wanna dance to that?