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In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and now enjoy in retrospect. It's as an adult that I've opened it up to dance, hip-hop, R&B, and even big pop songs.

— Bill Clegg

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

— John Cusack

As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.

— Kaskade

All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.

— Taj Mahal

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

— James Bay

I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

— Steven Sater

It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.

— Elliott Carter

With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.

— Jordin Sparks

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was raised on pop music.

— Jane Siberry

I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.

— Jane Wiedlin

I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life.

— Raphael Saadiq