One of the local universities advertising "50 and Better" classes including courses/lectures on Frank Sinatra, 1950's swing, and "Over The Rainbow" makes me wonder why they are conflating Gen X folks with the boomers here... ("just over 50" are folks who grew up with U2, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.) 🤔
@ai6yr I am the oldest of the Gen-Xers and I'd hit some classes on goth culture in the 80s and 90s, but Sinatra? Great voice, shitty dude. But yeah, Gen-X starts in 1965, meaning 15 in 1980, so the 80s and early to mid-90s was our era, not this 1950s shit.
@Geojoek@smallerdemon@ai6yr I think the oldest millenials are in their mid-40s by now. The youngest are around 30. I am still academia adjacent and we have millenial full professors.
Eta: I misread your comment. :ablobrollingeyes: You're entirely correct that their kids are in college and highschool.
@smallerdemon@ai6yr I'm 74. Sinatra was my mother's generation, not mine. On the other hand, about 20 years I discovered the small jazz bands of the 1920s and early '30s--all recorded before my mother was born. Try listening to 18-year-old Duke Ellington and 20-year-old Bix Beiderbecke--it's impossible not to be excited about young people inventing a new kind of music.
@ai6yr
A lot of people conflate boomers with "anyone older than me." It makes no real sense to partition people by generation names. 20 years and the world has changed.
@EugestShirley True... It's just odd they are trying to lump everyone together after X age (plus, some of us do NOT have static musical tastes... I mean, I would be listening to Quiet Riot and Michael Jackson still if I were stuck in my generational bucket, LOL)
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