OLD<\/p>\n
Believes in the album.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Believes in the single. It’s all about the track, if you like something you go deeper, it’s about a body of work, click on an act in Spotify and you find what’s most popular and you check that out, assuming you care, and many people don’t, especially in hip-hop, the song is part of the culture, the same way British Invasion singles were part of the culture.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Believes in CDs.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Doesn’t have a CD player. They don’t come in cars, assuming you’ve got one, as millennials move to the city and Uber, and new computers don’t come with them, if you’re still sending someone promotional CDs it’s a reflection upon you, they’re worthless.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Passive.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Active. Sure, a millennial might put an online radio station, albeit generated by Pandora or Spotify, on in the background, but more likely they’ll be streaming a playlist, in the background, they don’t play terrestrial radio, the commercials are abhorrent and you can’t skip ahead, millennials see the web as their oyster, they’ll click and go from one site or track to another.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Will listen to the radio.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Won’t. It’s part of the on demand culture. The youngster doesn’t want to wait, that’s an experience that’s dead. Kinda like how cars replaced trains. With a car you could go where you wanted to go whenever you wanted to.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Buys files.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Sees everything as on demand, you don’t need to own anything, not a car, a movie, a song…<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Laments the passing of the golden age.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Thinks the present is bright and the future is brighter.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Cares about “Billboard” charts.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Only cares about unweighted charts based on raw statistics. I.e. Spotify streaming. Unfortunately, Apple Music doesn’t reveal its statistics, to its detriment.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Worried about YouTube.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Will use YouTube when it wants to watch a video, but only the brokest of the broke use it as an everyday music service. YouTube for music is dialup, Spotify\/Apple\/Amazon is broadband<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Laments the passing of music on MTV.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Never thought that MTV was a music outlet, always saw it as a host for lame reality shows.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Stuck in the past.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Pioneering the future. The young have no problem switching allegiance from Facebook to Snapchat to Instagram while oldsters are set in their ways and have a hard time chucking aside the past to live in the present.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Thinks a band is a credible, self-contained entity speaking truth.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Thinks a band is a brand, whored out to corporations, establishing enterprises\/brand extensions that will rain down coin. Music is just a platform to make money via your fame.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Bitch about the price of concert tickets.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Save up money and overpay for what they want to do, they know it’s a mercenary culture, and if they want to attend, they pony up.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Sees a major label record deal as the holy grail.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Is aware of Chance the Rapper, and is reluctant to share revenue with a parasitic corporation when they can use the online tools to break themselves.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Expects acts to last.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Knows acts are evanescent.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Is all about culture.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Is all about culture, that’s what hip-hop provides and other genres do not.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Stuck in their ways.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Will try new things.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Believe physical assets are a badge of honor.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Believe experiences are a badge of honor, where you’ve been is more important than what you own.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Is willing to be spoon-fed.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Wants it all now. The concept that radio goes on tracks months after they’re a hit online is anathema.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Is prejudiced.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Has grown up with a rainbow of colors and accepts all kinds.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Fighting for women’s rights.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Believes the women’s movement is akin to the right to vote, way in the past, today’s young women feel empowered, they don’t feel taken advantage of (of course this is a mind-set and not always true but the point is young women were brought up believing they could be all that they could be, so when they hit a wall\/are abused by men, they react heavily, kinda like Susan Fowler, who stood up to the bro culture at Uber.)<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Thinks the pace of change is glacial, and will never come.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Have lived through the legalization of marijuana and gay marriage and believe change is right around the corner.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Worries about sound quality.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Sound quality, what’s that?<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Believe in mystery and inaccessibility.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Believe famous people are open books who are accessible.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Want to be sitcom stars.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Want to be YouTube stars.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Stayed at home and practiced.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Practice in public, whilst boosting their brand online.<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Grew up believing money was evil.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Think money is great!<\/p>\n
OLD<\/p>\n
Laments income inequality.<\/p>\n
YOUNG<\/p>\n
Knows the score and knows that he not busy getting ahead is falling behind.<\/p>\n
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