The music I like... and the music I don't like

A few days ago we were sitting in the company of our friends, all of the same generation, we were born before 1980.

With excellent appetizers, prosciutto and cheese, we drink selected white wine, and music from the MTV 80' channel plays in the background.

I open the post that #Galenkp puts up on Fridays and see the topic for this week:

Is there something currently popular in society that really annoys you? What is it and why does it annoy you?

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There are many things that annoy me in today's society in which I live.
Some of it falls into the category that I cannot change myself - the government that has not been to my liking for years, air pollution and crowding in the city where I live, disrespect and lack of basic home education, the collapse of education...
But also those categories that I can choose and change (somewhat of them).. Selection of movies and series, but also music...

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Music

Music is what you hear at every step, on every TV program, in street...

Sometimes it can't be avoided because it easily finds its way to my ears.

I will probably be characterized as a grizzled old man with this post, but the music that the young people in my environment listen to today does not please my ears.

That evening with friends, we listened to foreign music from the 80s...

In those years, in my environment, in addition to foreign music, the music of the domestic scene, pop, rock... "Riblja čorba", "Bajaga i instruktori", "Crvena jabuka", "Piloti", "Indeksi", "Prljavo kazalište", "Merlin", "Idoli"...
That's the music I liked to listen to.

In the 90s, there was the first wave of genre change in music, which was difficult for me, but I was younger, so I could easily handle all that turbo folk and that amount of junk.

In the end, I could at least understand the music, that is, the lyrics of the songs that were sung.
And these days, the trend is some "synthesizer" autotune music, some new artists who perform tracks whose lyrics I can't understand, even though they sing in my native language.

In the past, at New Year's concerts in my city, the performers were pop and rock groups, but today they are performers with no singing experience, half-naked girls and young men on stage who promote uncultured behavior, disrespect for the system, women, other men, children...
They encourage young people to violence, stupidity, sex...
Maybe that's what Madonna, Prince and everyone else did when I was young, so our parents were appalled, but I'm sure they could at least understand every word of those songs...
Now this howling, which sometimes strikes me as slap, makes that direction of music uncomfortable for me.
When I just remember that I used to listen live Djordje Balasevic, the author and performer of such verses: "The snows are coming.
It's not worth it, colds bother me more and more.
Put it in my hair gently like a mother-of-pearl hairpin, I need it - my little shelter under the sky.
Untie the blinds, aim for the morning and let that ship slide.
The Americans found the code for it: "Take it easy" beautiful doll!
A ripe peach is being split in the sky.

Dim the lights, take off the gas, we are afraid of funny things.
Do you think someone is asking about us? It's like we don't exist.

Put your mind to idle, shake the stars like mulberries.
And slowly the ship ran aground on those plush shores.
And dream...
Migrants are leaving.
Small sails flutter across the sky. That goose departure always makes me look older - the way to heaven.
Oh, is it upstream all the way?
Dim the lights, take off the gas, we are afraid of funny things.
Do you think someone is asking about us? It's like we don't exist".

Every time lyrics like:
"I chase, I run, I drink, I dream of her at night. Only Coca Cola, whiskey, bottles of diarrhea
I just drink, break, pay for bottles, refill I'm a prisoner, and that little one is a prisoner."
whose spoken words I do not understand, I cry.

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That's why I still listen only the music I listened to 20 and 30 years ago...

My car radio always has a radio station with my favorite "old" music.

Sometimes, when I hear the loud music I wrote about in the car next door, I turn up the music in my car to overpower it.

Young people push and achieve changes, raise awareness about gender equality, the position of employees, ecology and environmental protection...
And that's good, I support it.
But the music they listen to gets on my nerves.
And then I see a show on my favorite morning program. Question: "Why does the whole world love Bob Marley?"

And why I love him...
Well, because I understand him 😁

Since I can choose the music, my thumb goes to the remote control, I move my index finger over the phone screen or multimedia in the car, and when I go out, I choose some quieter places, with acoustic music or well-known artists...