Now that I'm in my 30s, I have no idea about what young people are interested in anymore. Which is why I recently appointed a young person (aged 19) to keep me up to date with youth culture -- I get to hear about anime, lo-fi rap, the latest slang, etc. I don't need to appoint an old person to keep me au fait with what old people are up to, because if I want to know about the mentality and interests of Boomers I can just read the posts of people on this website like R**** N***, for example. I previously had a quizzing adjudicator but that person is busy now with college course work and I'm on a quizzing break so that person's services wouldn't currently be needed.
Anyway, last night my advisor on youth culture was telling me that young people are saying that France was ROBBED in the Eurovision song contest final, and I was delighted to hear her say it because I felt the same way. It confirmed in my mind that it wasn't young people voting in their droves for Italy's bombastic rock song to win the competition, but rather it was BOOMERS (and Gen-Xers, who can be almost as bad as boomers) trying to recapture something from their youth.
The "finally, some real music" crowd, it was. The "this takes me back to the gigs I attended in dive clubs in 1993" crowd.
France's song was beautiful, it tugged at my heartstrings and it was nice to find out that my heartstrings are still in working order. I'm glad that the youth of today are on my side and that this song (which came in second) would have been the rightful winner if Boomers hadn't decided to ruin the moment as they always do.
"Controlled chaos" I think Graham Norton called it on commentary, which might be the first time in history that that man has said anything remotely sensible.
Voilà!:
"Rock and Roll will never die" said Måneskin's cokehead lead singer after Italy's victory ---
yeah because it's decrepit boomers and past-it people with a boomer mentality like V**** keeping Rock and Roll on life support while the rest of us are ready to do the humane thing and pull the plug. These people just couldn't allow Barbara Pravi to have her moment, could they? And Switzerland's song should have come second, ahead of the Italian 'poseurs' (if we're still using the word 'poseurs' these days; we did when I was younger but I'll have to consult with my youth culture advisor about that --- who also told me that if any young people voted for Italy it was only because they were "thirsty" for the lead singer).
Can you go back to just downvoting and never posting?
