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my brother WHO IS A YEAR YOUNGER THAN ME calls all of the early gaga stuff 'tiktok music' because thats all he recognises it from. mind you he said that about poker face

new charli xcx stans calling themselves brats rather than angels

I’m 30 but was at a karaoke bar and next to a table of girls who just turned 21, and the DJ played Teenage Dream. One of them said, “Wait, isn’t this Katy Perry? The American Idol judge?”

I thought she was bullshitting, but I looked at her and she was dead serious.

This is less about discussing pop music but once when I was leaving to play D&D with my group my mom turned to my aunt and said, "She's going to her friend's house to play Imagine Dragons"

In November, I asked my class of college sophomores what they wanted to listen to during our lab class:

Students: “Just not Mariah Carey, it’s too early for Christmas music.”

Me: “She has other songs, you know.”

Students: (genuinely shocked) “Really, like what?”

cue 3 hours of real education

when a younger Finn Wolfhard was talking to an even YOUNGER child and she didn’t know who 1D was

when i go to the clubs and i saw someone shazaming songs from MY formative teen years and i want to set the entire room ablaze lol

Acting like someone who was VERY famous a while ago is "underrated". After Stranger Things brought Kate Bush's music back into the spotlight, I saw loads of teens saying like oh omg why did nobody listen to her, she's such a small artist etc etc. Like my love she was a HUGE star and is just living a quiet retirement with all her money now.

Nirvana tshirts being preppy

My manager said his niece heard YMCA and remarked "oh this is like Hot to Go!"

I love telling new Angels (or brats as they may call themselves) that Charli XCX did Boom Clap, and that they’ve BEEN fans of her for a decade now and just hadn’t put the pieces together 💚💚💚💚💚. I’ve had than conversation with no less than 3 different people, 1 of which was within the last month.

"Ain't you that Rah Rah B*tch?"

Loosely adjacent, but all I can think of is that one video of the girl insisting the record player was in the vinyl when her mom told her she needed one.

She’s pretty good…for her age

My gen z coworker (10 years younger than me) and I were talking about Christmas music, and I mentioned Jojo. Her response: “Jojo Siwa?”. 😳

My little cousins asked me if I knew Beyoncé used to be in a band called Destiny’s Child 

Maybe a bit longer ago but when I was 8 or 9, there was this huge Spanish hit in my country called La Camisa Negra by Juanes. I had no idea how to pronounce his name so when I asked my mom to put on the song, I called it "the Spanish song by Je Anus (Dutch for "your anus")"

A lot of the swiftie revisionism feels like it comes from younger fans, specifically the fact that reputation was not at all well received when it released, especially by fans

My cousin is a huge Swiftie so naturally her son is growing up listening to Taylor Swift. So now every song, including ones by male singers, are by Taylor Swift according to him lol

I’ve encountered quite a few people who associate the concept of artists having eras with Taylor Swift exclusively as if this hasn’t been a thing since Bowie and Madonna.

any singer will come up on the radio and my mom will ask if it’s ariana grande lol

My dad once thought that One Direction & 5SOS are cousins 💀💀💀

So this is kind of random but all I can think of is when my 11 yr old sister called Meena (the elephant) from the movie Sing a “pick-me” 😭

Oh yes I know a kid & she thinks Taylor swift is a princess, Ariana grande thank you next & current wicked era are 2 different people, Sabrina is Taylor swift too , chappell roan is a church lady , billie is a guy💀, 

i started taking voice lessons a few years ago and my first teacher was about 19 years old. she asked what kind of music i listened to, i said “i listen to a lot of pop, my favorite artist of all time is Lady Gaga” she goes “cool… anything current?”

When they say Tate McRae is the next Britney Spears and think they have comparable careers.

When I was a kid and delicate played on the radio, I always thought she was saying “he was like beef for me” instead of “you must like me for me”

Yep, I’ve seen younger people not grasp the oddness of the “write my own checks like I write what I sing” line in Ariana’s “7 Ring.” Sis, Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote that song.

Similar lolz about Gwen’s “Rich Girl.” Also, lots of people pointed to “Father Figure” as having the best hook on the new Taylor album and then melted down when they were told that Taylor didn’t compose it.

I’ve seen a lot of younger people learning now, during a meme trend, that Sting composed the “I’ll Be Missing You” hook.

This was a few years ago, but: A class of fifth graders would not believe my substitute teacher friend when she told them that when she was their age, Drake was just an actor.

When the Taylor swift movie came out, a family friend’s daughter said wow the actress sounds like Taylor swift. She did not understand that it was her. In her mind, all movies were fake. They had actors and actresses

When “Big Energy” was having its moment, my niece was obsessed with the music and beat and earnestly told me that Latto is a genius for coming up with it.

Don’t worry, I corrected that shit and defended one Mariah Carey quick.

you mean, my fave things from sound of music?

My 24 yr old friend thinking Britney released most of her music in the 90s....her debut album was January 1999 💀 Britney is a 00s artist to me, a millennial!

I went theeee longest time thinking If U Seek Amy was about Britney coming out as a lesbian. I was like 8/9 when it was released and my mum kept saying I shouldn’t be listening to that sort of music because it’s explicit and I just kinda came to that conclusion, I then thought it was about drugs and Amy was a code word for it?

Anyway I only found out about what the actual song means a couple of years ago and it’s only because my friends were calling me out for being dumb GSVSGSVS

Lol, off topic a bit but I find the double entendre of Fergie’s name to be cool.

My 21 year old nephew sincerely tried to argue with me that Victor Wembayama is more famous than Britney Spears 💀 (yes, this was right after the incident with his security guard)

Using the word era when they really mean album cycle

Saying “vinyls”. The plural is just vinyl, or you could say records.

Thinking that late 2000s/early 2010s dance pop was ever good, and thinking that the clubs were actually playing that music.

I saw some (most likely Gen Z/Gen Alpha) Twitter stans calling Janet Jackson a flop & a Khia.

My daughter, when she was 3, was getting SO upset because she kept telling me she wanted to listen to “Elsa Taylor Swift”. she had commented that Taylor Swift looks like Elsa on the cover of Lover, so I thought it was a song from Lover, but it wasn’t. She got SO MAD that I couldn’t figure it out. The next day, I mentioned it to one of her teachers, and later on her teacher (also a Swiftie) said “I put on the Kidz Bop version of Shake it Off and she shouted out ‘it’s Elsa Taylor Swift!’”