For older guys

In the mid-70’s I was playing in a Jump Blues/Swing band, and the singer was quite a character. He had a pompadour (in the 70’s?!), wore suits casually, had a 78 collection, and smoked reefer. You know, a "cat". He proposed we do Sinatra’s "That’s Life", and though I had my doubts, it was great. The lingering hippies in the Bay Area looked at us like we were from Mars.

A window back in time to connect with the passed and their passions
i cry like a baby when Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra is played over what remains of my Dad's Hi-fi
good advice when shopping the used record bins - reach out for new stuff that others loved....

When I hit 50 I could start to appreciate Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. I still listen to death metal and electronica. To each his own.

my father loved Perry...

Yet again we discover that 'artistry' isn't limited nor constrained to the present, although 'classical' music from the past is generally worshiped...

Como, Crosby, Martin, et all...they were the 'top of the pops' in their era.  My parents loved them, and they can still be appreciated in that context.

I always liked the Andrews sisters and their style, which later I admired again as a fan of the Roches.  And what's old can be new, yet again...*S*

It's not my 'daily fare', either....but I can listen and appreciate the more 'popular' selections of the era, putting myself into the context of 'when'.

When men fought and died in foreign lands, listening to that...what they danced to, made love with, worked to, played to....

Later, they came home and put their lives together and created us.

We have no right to sneer.  But we can stop, think, and try to appreciate.
And really, it's hard to do Astaire 'moves' to hiphop or EDM....;)