Music has grown and changed over the years and with it the way people listen to it. Back in the ’50s people didn’t have a system in their car to turn the bass up so high you can’t even concentrate on the music from the ringing in your ears. They had records and the radio to rely on bringing the newest music or any type of music at all. Now you can find any and every type of music on the Internet and ready to download straight to any type of technology you have. We have so many ways of find music and listening to it that it is impossible to be in the loop somehow. With the new gadgets we have now even CDs seem old and outdated to some, and others forget we even had things like record player. Our grandparents sat around in the living room and listened to Buddy Holly and The Beatles on the record player in the living room while we can walk to class playing music on a device that can also access the Internet and make phone calls.
For a long time I thought the record would go extinct, people would gradually forget they even exist. But in the past few years I’ve began to notice that records are coming back. More and more teenagers are buying records and they are actually pretty accessible. Places like Papa Jazz in Five Points and even commercial places like Urban Outfitters are selling them. I’ve even seen records in Target which is a huge deal. It isn’t just older artists that they are selling, more and more newer artist like Lana Del Rey, Noah and the Whale and even Jay-Z have put out vinyls. Which is insanely weird thinking about listening to “99 Problems” by Jay-Z on a record, I might add.
The world is growing up and becoming more advanced and technology savvy, and with everything new coming out it is easy to forget about the stuff that was used before that. It’s nice to see that people are not forgetting the parts of the entertainment and music history, and that you can still find the people who are not only embracing what the world has given us now but embracing what we had before. So, here is to the 90s kids that aren’t forgetting the cassette tapes and Walkmans that we used when we were younger and the Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, and *NSYNC that we used to play on them.