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Originally Posted by Itse
Also, kids don't identify themselves as strongly through music. Everyone listens to different things, mostly depending on the context. Listening to a genre is not a personal statement as much as it used to be, it's mostly just music, and genrecrossing is so common that it doesn't even mean anything anymore. (There's plenty of studies on this subject actually.) This lessens the personal significance of classics (as classics tend to be more or less genre speficic), and through that the cultural need for classics.
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Music used to be a generation identification marker. But after a few iterations, this trend stopped progressing. My kid can't outdo me anymore, someone who knew about Jim Morrison, touched by Ian Curtis and lived through Kurt Cobain. They can't use music to seperate their generation from mine.
So yes, you are right, musical taste stopped being a personal statement right after the death of Kurt Cobain. Even back in the 90s, someone said it is cooler for kids to turn on the computer and play Doom than it is to buy new music.