It came out 4 years before I was born and a good 12 years before I started listening to any sort of music, by which point it definitely wasn’t the music of that time any more than it is now. By the time I properly got in to music, in my early teens it couldn’t have been more different.
Think its a very simple answer, those in their teens and early 20s probably haven't heard it unless they have a keen interest in music from that era. So if anything its not that surprising. Pretty sure before the episode if you played the song to a 15yo or 20yo they'd probably have no clue about it or who Kate Bush is. Could probably do the same to an average 30yo and I'd be surprised if they knew the song.
Sure, but people in their 30s listening to some 80s music is hardly strange. I've got plenty of 80s songs in my playlist too. That doesn't mean there's not a lot of potential growth out there from teenagers and people in their twenties from a song appearing on maybe the most watched TV show on atm. Most people aren't actively listening to Kate Bush these days, that's just the way it is unfortunately.
Why not both, I've seen some movies where those things happen.Nancy?
Season 3 Mrs. Wheeler!
I’m just surprised it had that impact based off when my generation likely became aware of music outside of said generation. My point was that I and others were around their age (assume we’re thinking 18-25 here) and already aware of it. There’s not much difference with the scenario, apart from a lack of music tv these days. Maybe that’s it.
Yeah sure, just saying you became aware of music from the generation immediately preceding yours. You probably didn't listen to a lot of Frank Sinatra (though my cousin does listen to some Sinatra, weirdly).
It's probably because most people who watch it are young enough to have been born long after it came out, and Kate Bush has been out of the public eye for decades (with the exception of those comeback dates she did a few years back). I was 5 years old when the song first came out and I don't think I became aware of it till the late 90s when Placebo did a (not very good) cover version.
A stepmother plot. I like it.
I think you’re really overestimating the average age of people using TikTok in that way. There’s going to be an absolute tonne of kids who are under 18, likely born in the late 2000s who have also contributed to its rise in popularity. It’s unfair to expect kids that age to listen to music from almost 40 years ago.
Yeah, it’s far from unthinkable that there’s Stranger Things fans for who Kate Bush is before their parents were born. I should be amazed that there’s people doing the “how do they not know this!” but of course they are.
Random thought but their cover was used for a Wrestlemania match between Taker and HBK and it worked so well.
Yeah but the point is I’m not from that generation either. That I’m closer to it is largely irrelevant as we’d long moved past that era of music by the time I was going to school. It’s basically the same situation as they’re in, with the only difference being music tv popularity.
It honestly isn't.
Of course is it. The song was as relevant when I was a teen as it is now. I had absolutely zero connection to 80s music
Such a great song!
It’s far from irrelevant. We’re talking about an entire generation difference. Their parents probably aren’t really listening because they’re younger than/were very young when the song was released, so where would these (let’s say) 15 year olds be listening to Kate Bush?
Did your parents listen to 80s music? Did any older relatives listen to 80s music? Was there 80s music in any of the films or TV programs you were watching? There's a reason you started listening to 80s music, i. e. the music of the previous generation, and not Frank Sinatra, or The Beatles, or Little Richard.
Where was I listening to it? My parents didn’t listen to anything. The generational difference is totally irrelevant when both generations are completely past that era. The only possible difference, as I’ve already said, is music tv.
I would’ve obviously considered that if my parents were listening to it. They didn’t listen to any music when I was growing up. By the time I was watching movies and tv that wasn’t for kids we were into the 2000s. Even the 90s was very far removed from what the 80s was aside from the likes of vhs and cassettes, nevermind the 00s. Especially when it comes to the music.
That’s hugely incorrect. There’s a reason 808s and 303s cost an absolute fortune now. Both iconic machines from the early 80s with a huge demand still now. There’s many other sought after synths and drum machines from the 80s too including the Jupiter 8 and Linndrum. You’ll have heard a tonne of these and are still hearing a tonne of them in music today. That’s alongside producers looking to recreate that imperfect sound from the 80s with processing.
Preference is very different to awareness. And the only part of this that matters doesn’t prove your point at all. If anything it shows I’m right to have been surprised all along.
The general trend is that people prefer music from their own or slightly before their own generation, but that every generation has a more varied music taste than the one before.
He's going to reveal himself as the big monster in the last season.
It’s not just nostalgia cycles either though. Although it no doubt plays a part.
He's grown up to be... Unfortunate looking.
The fact that the 80s was when music became truly ubiquitous thanks to digital audio and CDs must play a part as well.
I think this is a bizarrely subjective thing for anyone to say with such objective certainty. Also the 80s was considered quite a naff era for a good while until it came back in vogue. This seems more like your opinion than anything else. Sounds like my dad talking about the Dave Clark Five.
I really dont think 80's is seen as a particularly strong era of music by most. There was way, way too much cringy, terrible shit amongst the good. Who the hell thinks the 80's was cool?
Then prepare to be very surprised, because it’s absolutely going to happen. Just as the 00’s will have their day, just as the 10’s and just as right now will.
The 90's fashion has been going for years. It lasted a lot longer than the 80's thing really. Apparently were on the 00's now. I've heard Limp Bizkit mentioned way too many times recently. I've had the joy of listening to conversations about how crap low rise jeans are, how much everyone hates them and how the 00's suck. I'm pretty sure im a fashion guru via osmosis now.
