Speaker 1: So I'm reading my AARP magazine while in the bathroom. Yes, AARP,
Speaker 1: I get the magazine. I'm a member. I get the magazine.
Speaker 1: I Shirley do. And because I'm fifty plus, like this
Speaker 1: show is fifty plus, so I'm mine. They have some
Speaker 1: way articles in there sometimes too, But I'm reading it
Speaker 1: and they're talking about there's an article on the latest
Speaker 1: issue with Samuel L. Jackson on the cover of Samuel
Speaker 1: Ella is my Favorites talking about punk music, and I
Speaker 1: was just more shocked so much. I was like, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, they howdy ever taught music in ARP. I
Speaker 1: mean us, people who over fifty, we like music still.
Speaker 1: We like going to music shows and stuff, you know
Speaker 1: from a lot of black folks, the Death of Frankie,
Speaker 1: Beverly and Maids and the Big Deal.
Speaker 2: People are going to.
Speaker 1: There are many people in there fifty plus going to
Speaker 1: the Usher show.
Speaker 2: Many went to Beyonce.
Speaker 1: Like, we like music, we go to concert you always
Speaker 1: have money, we go to concerts. But they only talk
Speaker 1: about that so much, and so I'm just like, that's
Speaker 1: really interesting. And then I was like, oh, how in
Speaker 1: Tarasante's they're talking about punk music and how there's no
Speaker 1: official start dates. They're staying around seventy three is where
Speaker 1: they started to have some happening and see me GM's
Speaker 1: in New York and I was just reading about that.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I remember punk music. But that's
Speaker 1: the kind of thing. It's like my generation, the fifty
Speaker 1: plus became mine, or one after one before me. It's
Speaker 1: so funny because we were the last generation.
Speaker 2: To really see see new.
Speaker 1: Forms of music happen, like really new forms of music.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, there's you know, there was jazz
Speaker 1: and then maybe later you saw Latin jazz and this
Speaker 1: jazz and that jazz. That's that's just alliterations of you know,
Speaker 1: are you a form?
Speaker 2: But we saw the birth of punk and new wave
Speaker 2: and rap. I go.
Speaker 1: Rap is arguably the last completely new art form of
Speaker 1: the last fifty years.
Speaker 2: When you think about it, just think about it.
Speaker 1: The spoken word said to music and has evolved in
Speaker 1: a thousand.
Speaker 2: Different ways, right, and it was very different.
Speaker 1: Yes, all music comes from, so all the type obviously
Speaker 1: it's all derivative of something. But we you know, well
Speaker 1: the last you know, one hundred years, jazz was invented,
Speaker 1: R and B was invented, and rock and roll was invented, Like,
Speaker 1: these are all things that were Really these are all
Speaker 1: new art forms.
Speaker 2: How are you gonna say pop music?
Speaker 1: You know, popps is like popular music, but the form
Speaker 1: of that dance music that was invented. These are all
Speaker 1: things disco. These are all things that were. There was
Speaker 1: no previous anything, it was they came out, It came out,
Speaker 1: and for me, I'm lucky. I got I got to
Speaker 1: know some of these are FROs from the very beginning,
Speaker 1: and just what do you think about that? And that's
Speaker 1: all I just just kind of breezed my head. You know,
Speaker 1: what kind of music do I like? What music stimulates me?
Speaker 1: What music I like? Growing up? My taste has changed
Speaker 1: here and there. I remember in the late eighties when
Speaker 1: New Age came out and that's new agent was like
Speaker 1: a cross between instrumental, jazz, pop inspirational, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: format and artists like acoustic. Galcami was my favorite. Katara.
Speaker 1: I loved them. They're They're great. They're part of my
Speaker 1: repertoire on my on the radio and CDs, ant tapes.
Speaker 1: Stop eating something right now. I'm sorry, I just said
Speaker 1: eat something real quick. That was really something that you know,
Speaker 1: you that I put on that was there was a
Speaker 1: big hit. People were trying to in word, they're trying
Speaker 1: to try to it was a lifestyle thing too.
Speaker 2: I remember that I was. I was in that for
Speaker 2: a while. You know.
Speaker 1: Rap music of course from its earliest beginnings in late
Speaker 1: seventies that I remember of that's when I came into it.
Speaker 2: The eighties was run DMC and all them.
Speaker 1: You into the gangster of the gangster rapp of the nineties,
Speaker 1: rock wrapper the two thousands. Get to watch it all
Speaker 1: just kind of to where I'm doing kind of rap music.
Speaker 1: I put out my news, I'm putting out my new
Speaker 1: song delete, and it's kind of a rap. It's it's
Speaker 1: I'm talking to a beat. I always say, I'm.
Speaker 2: Not a rapper. You've spoken word artists. But it's a
Speaker 2: fine line. Right.
Speaker 1: But I wonder why we don't in magazines and prints
Speaker 1: and stuff talk more about music still our age. I mean,
Speaker 1: music is viewed as a young man's game, young person's game, right,
Speaker 1: But there are many of us who are still We
Speaker 1: like music. We like to go out, let's go to concerts.
Speaker 1: A lot of times we have more disposal income. You
Speaker 1: can spend the money these concerts are expensive kids. Now
Speaker 1: I do pick and choose what concerts I go to.
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of musicals. I've been doing those
Speaker 1: two a lot recently. The music is a part of
Speaker 1: our lives and and and just as we get older
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that we just stopped listening to Prince all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, or I stopped listening to Look Kim,
Speaker 1: that was our girl back in the day. Or maybe
Speaker 1: it's in a situation, but you maybe when a song
Speaker 1: comes on you get down to it, still, tromp the radio,
Speaker 1: get down to it, or turn up the Spotify or
Speaker 1: whatever you're listening to, and it comes on you still
Speaker 1: like Mariah carey'sy, like Madonna, like you still just you
Speaker 1: still do Jody Waally people you still like.
Speaker 2: I noticed that for me.
Speaker 1: Though as I've gotten older, I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: the charts anymore. I'm that I know that, I know
Speaker 1: that music has we made today is not made for me.
Speaker 1: It is not for me. But because of TikTok and stuff,
Speaker 1: I hear certain songs like oh, who's that already?
Speaker 2: All like that song?
Speaker 1: Or who's that Ice Spice? I like this song like
Speaker 1: I would never know who they are I would never
Speaker 1: even buy your stuff, but I'll hear a song and
Speaker 1: my kids and grandkids.
Speaker 2: I like that song Let's do a lipa? Well? Do
Speaker 2: I know her? Like you? I kind of know certain people, right.
Speaker 1: I just say, it's just it's just it's sad sometimes,
Speaker 1: Like there was a there was a point a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, I was like, I used to the Billboard
Speaker 1: charge and I knew nobody, and I said, Okay, I'm done.
Speaker 2: I'm like James is done.
Speaker 1: I don't know nobody at top them, no one, but
Speaker 1: he said, know who Tenner Swift is. I'm chanting to
Speaker 1: juniors is fifty plus and we'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 1: What are your favorite songs