Up next in a discussion of the human condition:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IP0wuwJBdMII was born in the mid-90s, the second last day of 1994, in fact, so I always say I was born in 1995 because it's the same thing.
Growing up, I never, ever liked pop music, or rather currently popular music. Britney Spears seemed bland when I was 7 and other little girls loved her. I liked The Who and Kansas at around that age, and later, in my teens, I preffered Jean-Baptiste Lully, Bach, Fux, Byrd and Mozart to the insipid Justin Bieber and others other teens drooled over.
It seemed drab and even though I had never heard of auto-tune, I heard something strange in those singer's voices, a lack of vibration that made me want to puke. And those same four chords. I Got a Feeling in simple G major. All. The way. Through.
Here's what was happening in "serious" music in the 1960s:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XRaa34E8tXQDiscuss.
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written in the stars that the New Golden Age has begun."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/ghazala-khan-is-a-gold-star-mother-heres-what-that-means.html?_r=0
"In 1873 Naser al-Din travelled to Saint Petersburg on the invitation
of Russian Tsar Alexander II. While there, he visited the ballet.
According to rumour, he was so charmed by the Russian dancers, that
he had his women dressed in similar skirts. Of course, the concubines
could only remove their Muslim dress for the camera. On the other hand,
this may be just a rumour."
http://brightside.me/article/photos-of-the-unparalleled-beauties-of-the-persian-shah-19555/