# Is the bee gees old people music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 20, 2024, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092 "2024-06-20T05:11:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![santypanty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@santypanty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/santypanty)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/1 "2024-06-20T05:11:08Z")
is it ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/2 "2024-06-20T05:35:20Z")
Welcome to the community! I don’t think so. I’m only 42 and I love “Stayin’ Alive” and “How Deep is Your Love”. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/3 "2024-06-20T05:57:48Z")
I would say it’s according to how old you are. But, Music can be timeless. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/4 "2024-06-20T09:33:36Z")
Loving the Bee Gees is an old people trope. Hating the Bee Gees is also an old people trope. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/5 "2024-06-20T09:52:26Z")
Welcome to the straight dope message board. I’ve moved your post to Cafe Society, our forum for discussing the arts. Also, the style here is to write a somewhat more substantive original post. Perhaps you could give your opinion to your question, and state why you think so. Or give some arguments either way. I hope you enjoy our community! ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/6 "2024-06-20T10:00:52Z")
The definitive answer comes from your reaction to their tribute band: The Heebeegeebees with “[Meaningless Songs in Very High Voices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-gZKRKNy4w)” ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/7 "2024-06-20T11:07:44Z")
Their last album with "alone"on it was viewed as a comeback of sorts I think there’s only one member left now They got sucked up in the disco hubris even tho they were there before and after ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/8 "2024-06-20T11:27:42Z")
The Bee Gees were popular in the late 1970s. If you were old enough to go out to the clubs during the disco era, you would probably be somewhere in the 60 to 70 year old age range today. A lot of millennials listen to classic rock from the 1970s, and there are plenty of classic rock stations on the radio. Classic disco radio stations are much harder to find. Disco doesn’t seem to have caught on so much with the younger folks these days. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/9 "2024-06-20T11:50:53Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > Classic disco radio stations are much harder to find. Radio stations are for old people, so that doesn’t say much. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/10 "2024-06-20T11:57:09Z")
I recently saw a Bee Gees tribute show. Not a cover band presenting themselves as such, just a good competent rock showband doing a night of hits of the Bee Gees as performers, stuff they’d written for others, and so on. The crowd was about 2/3 people who knew them from disco days and some from earlier in their Australian and international period, but there was a hefty smattering of younger people who were probably not even born when Saturday Night Fever was released but who clearly knew most of the songs. Admittedly this was an Australian crowd, and they are justly idolised, but I think the music holds up as good solid work of the 1960s-1990s and music fans of all ages will appreciate the quality. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/11 "2024-06-20T12:38:52Z")
It’s 2024 and the Bee Gees peak was, say, 1976, so 48 years ago. I was a big fan of New Wave in the 80s. If a song from 1937 came on the radio in 1985, yes, I would consider it old people music. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/12 "2024-06-20T12:46:05Z")
The Bee Gees was old people music when it was made. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/13 "2024-06-20T13:02:59Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > Classic disco radio stations are much harder to find. Praise Jesus! > [@hogarth](#): > > Radio stations are for old people, so that doesn’t say much. 😛 [Looks like](https://www.edisonresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Media-Habits-of-Gen-Z-from-Edison-Research-and-PRPD.pdf) you’re [wrong](https://musicbiz.org/news/radios-roadmap-to-gen-z-listenership/). The vaguely angsty soft pop churned out by contemporary singers wearing footie pajamas (which seems to be replacing “classic rock” in restaurants) - now _that’s_ old people music. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/14 "2024-06-20T13:10:39Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > If you were old enough to go out to the clubs during the disco era, you would probably be somewhere in the 60 to 70 year old age range today. Eh, closer to 70. I’m turning 60 in a couple months. In Summer 1978, probably the height of Studio 54 and the Disco era, I was 13 going on 14. Not that I would have gone to one of those clubs even if I had had a great fake ID-- I was a proud card-carrying member of D.R.E.A.D. 😏 > **[WRIF D.R.E.A.D. Card: Detroit's Rock Radio Loyalty Program | One Detroit](https://www.onedetroitpbs.org/one-detroit/wrifs-d-r-e-a-d-card-detroits-first-loyalty-program-for-rock-music-lovers/)** > > One Detroit covers the history of the WRIF D.R.E.A.D. card and how it helped the radio station rise to popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/15 "2024-06-20T13:20:33Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The vaguely angsty soft pop churned out by contemporary singers wearing footie pajamas Out of sheer curiosity, could you give an example? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/16 "2024-06-20T13:21:25Z")
The Bee Gees are primarily known for their 70s, _Saturday Night Fever_-era disco music, but they had a relatively substantial career before adopting that style. In any case, they’re definitely “oldies,” though that doesn’t _necessarily_ make them “old people music.” In the 80s, I think there was something of a backlash against disco music, and the Bee Gees and their style of music would have been looked upon with a certain amount of scorn and ridicule by teenagers. Nowadays, judging by the reaction videos I’ve seen on YouTube, there are people of all ages who genuinely and unironically enjoy the Bee Gees, or at least pretend to. But I think mostly they’re listened to for the nostalgia factor by people who remember their heyday. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/17 "2024-06-20T13:26:26Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > Classic disco radio stations are much harder to find. I don’t know of any “classic disco” radio stations. But a format known as “classic hits” is pretty common, and from my experience these stations play a fair amount of BeeGee songs. One local station plays old AT40 programs on weekends. Recently they played a show that included a BeeGees song I didn’t remember called “Boogie Child”. It was horrible. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/18 "2024-06-20T13:27:01Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > > [@Jackmannii](#): > > > > The vaguely angsty soft pop churned out by contemporary singers wearing footie pajamas > > Out of sheer curiosity, could you give an example? It didn’t take me long on YouTube to find [an example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq5yP3zs3RY). If you close your eyes you can readily imagine her in footie pajamas. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/19 "2024-06-20T13:51:35Z")
It’s all relative, but I would have called The Bee Gees old people music even when they were at the height of their popularity. Disco was not embraced by most teens (the primary market for pop music in the previous two decades). The Bee Gees and Disco appealed to an older and more affluent demographic that were desperately trying to maintain a party lifestyle to distract from their high stress jobs and divorces, and embrace their sex, drug, and alcohol addictions. In other words, my parents who were in their mid-30s at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092/20 "2024-06-20T13:54:23Z")
> [@whitetho](#): > > I don’t know of any “classic disco” radio stations. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vtsQI2IeM5U/hqdefault.jpg "Disco Lives Forever!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtsQI2IeM5U) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-bee-gees-old-people-music/1003092.md?page=2)