Have you been alive long enough to understand that old is gold and that if you pay close attention, history actually does repeat itself?

Let's talk music.

Research has suggested that modern music isn't really as good as the old classics.

Most enthusiasts agree that the last 4 decades of the 1900s represent the golden era of music. 643 millenials recently tested on their ability to recognise top hit records per decade were found to maintain a steady memory of top tunes that came out between 1960 and 1999.

Songs like ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ by Percy Sledge (1966), and ‘Baby Come Back’ by Player (1977) were among the most recognized.
The study used songs that had reached #1 on the Billboard Top 100 btn 1940 & 1957, and the top slot of the Billboard Hot 100 btn 1958 & 2015.

To put this into context, an usual correlation was observed between the likelihood of recognizing a song and its play count on Spotify.
Just to be clear, Spotify was launched in 2008, well after nearly after 90% of the songs that were studied were released.

So it is quite clear that millenials are aware of music some of them shouldnt be aware of. We are talking music that preceded their lives and yet they choose to listen to it anyways.

On this lousy quarantine evening, I am paying tribute to those girls in high school who rather than use their books for actual study instead used them to keep lyrics to some of the most touching music lyrics ever written. Those books full of lyrics were therapy for heartbreak.

Every girl knew lyrics to songs done by most Boy bands & groups, Boys II Men, Back Street Boys, N-Sync, West Life. These boy bands and groups clearly invented long distance relationships long before they even became a thing. Some how females all around the world could relate.

Unlike babes, let's talk ninjas and how hiphop music fueled their lifestyles as many ninjas tried to model their lives after hiphop legends Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.
Scratch that....dance also saw great strides. If music wasnt just music, you could call this a revolution.

Let's see fast forward to 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Techno aka house, dance, electro music which rocked clubs in the 1980s revisited us. Every millennial can relate to David Guettaz music and his collaboz with Artists like Usher, Kelly Rowland, Flo-Rida etc.

Electro music is a thing of legend. It is said, that electro beat can be fine tuned by the best of DJs to a point that it just sends the crowd into a frenzy. This proly explains what happens during Spring Break parties in the US and pure music escapades like "Tomorrowland".

This period of the early 2010s gave birth to a new breed of artists and music producers who shook the industry. Avicii (RIP), Alesso, Kygo, Tiesto, Kaskade, etc. The music they produced resonated with everyone cause it reminded them of the golden era of music.

During this period, I also fell in love with Dance music. Infact on lousy days, I spend my time on YouTube downloading the electro music renditions of 21st Century Music. They feel and sound much better than the original versions....pun intended.

If you dont believe me, why do millenials have parties and events with old skul themes. Why is it that in Ugandan bars, DJs play old skul music at a certain point in the night like it is a default setting? It is as though playing that music restores their sanity.

A big shout out to all them artists who blessed us with great music.
If after reading this thread, you can't go and listen to sumn like the cover of 'Higher Love - Whitney Houston' by Kygo, you are a fraud.