If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.
A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.
When you write a song, a song has longevity.
I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.
It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.
If a song was ever good, it's still good.
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.