# Time Person of the Year 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2023/988925 "2023-08-22T15:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 115
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2023/988925/115 "2023-12-05T11:52:01Z")
You’re not an outlier; there are a whole bunch of old folks who don’t get the music that Kids These Days listen to. Remember how your grandma thought about Metallica or the Beatles or jazz? Yup. Anyway, there’s a whole thread for folks who want to figure out what they’re missing: > [@Can someone explain the Taylor Swift phenomenon to me?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-explain-the-taylor-swift-phenomenon-to-me/981339/): > > She’s been around a pretty long time. We’ve all heard about the concert ticket fiasco last fall. She just started her tour those tickets were for. People are just nuts for her. I’ve listened to some of her music (even watched a fan’s video from the tour opener concert), and I just don’t get it. Her songs are very similar to each other, mundane, absolutely no musical innovation or originality. I don’t know any of her lyrics, so perhaps the “stories” she tells in her songs are her secret sauce(?)… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-person-of-the-year-2023/988925)._