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recently i started liking some music from the 90s to the present day and musicains and bands from the 60s and 70s seem to have aged and ones the 90s and 2000s are still going strong and not real old curious to know why bands from the 90s to now are not as old as the ones from the 60s to the 80s ? (link)
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Hi there. I should say that muscians from the 60's to the 80's appear older because they are physically older men and women. There were less very young performers too in this period. A band or star would generally become famous over a longer period, touring and recording and learning their craft. We spoke then of a band or artist 'paying their dues' with perhaps years of gigs and studio work before they hit the limelight. The 90's onwards saw many more 'boy bands' and 'girl groups' where recording companies and management agencies would fast track sometimes very young performers to instant stardom. Their material would be written for them, with slick production and full multi-media promotion. They would often be at the peak of their careers at a very young age, and thus are not especially old today. And as you say, many are still performing and bringing out new material. Since music styles change over the decades, the older stuff you mention will tend to sound 'old' as well. The instruments were basically accoustic, although electrically amplified. A guitar and a drumkit are fundamentally not 'electronic' devices after all. Recording was not the super-clean digital pathway it is today either. Although we see 'digitally remastered' versions of old recordings (I listened to some by old rock band Led Zeppelin, who I like a lot) they cannot of course create detail that was missing and not captured in the original recording session. So it's really about the years adding up, isn't it? An act like the Rolling Stones can and do still put on live shows with bags of musicianship, and lots of on-stage energy. But we cannot expect our Mick Jaggers, Ronnie Woods
etc...etc...to be young men anymore, or that their music will not sound representative of it's era. Some of the themes are as relevent today as they were. And some will seem 'very seventies' for instance, concerning stuff that was hot then but now mostly forgotten. Listen to a bit of everything, I should say. Like, if you hear some very beautiful and meaningful lyrics in a modern tune, you might find the group or artist are covering a track written maybe 50 years ago by a master songwriter like Bob Dylan. Personally? I can listen to music by say, Bowie from the seventies and think 'this is still really cool stuff'. Or I can listen to a city radio station in the car where a hot DJ is mixing and mashing-up brand new club music and think 'Hey, this cool, fresh stuff with so much energy, I like it!' There's always room for good music, new or old!!
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Thank you!! My question didn't make much sense the way I wrote it but you understood it just great!
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