thoughts on the radio
I was listening to the radio on my way to school this morning, and one of the channels had a segment on the resurgence of vinyl within Gen Z. The entire broadcast had a sort of mocking air. Like, these adults lived through the popularization of vinyl and block buster, when music industry wasn't vastly over saturated with streaming services, shit talking kids for liking physical media. The negative comments about point and shoots, CD players, "we had these when there weren't iPhones, look at these kids discovering (inset CD player, vinyl, cameras, you get my point) for the first time", a breath after telling us to "get off those darn phones". Every time I hear these sentiments from adults I ask myself, well what is it? What do you want me to do off my phone? Because every time a buy a CD, or bring out my little digital camera, I get shit for being "on the gen Z trend". I'd stare at a blank wall watching paint dry, but you guys did that first in the 80s so I'm better off just being born earlier.
It might be a shocking thought to some, but yes, I did grow up with CD players. With a glove box full of unsorted industrial music in my dad's car, with an MP3 player and wired headphones, with the soundtrack to old musicals, with a point and shoot camera, and without a phone. I acknowledge I am on the older ish side of kids these days (high school), but why the fuck do these older people with a superiority complex not let kids enjoy things. I'm writing this on my phone. I would love to spend vastly less time off my phones off TikTok, off Instagram. If you are an adult, pls lmk if you'd prefer next time I write this on an analogue typewriter or handwritten in cursive using ink and feather.