I haven’t heard Muzak or its imitators in a retail store in Lord knows how long; it’s all original recordings these days, just from different times and genres.
That may be what you mean, but IME even that tends to be all over the place, with the tunes just as likely to be of recent vintage as from the ‘classic rock’ era.
For instance, my wife and I stopped at the Weis supermarket in Upper Marlboro on the way home from work one evening in the past week or so. We were there just long enough to hear exactly four songs over the sound system, all of which I recognized. They were:
Badfinger, “No Matter What” (1970)
Gnarls Barkley, “Crazy” (2006)
Queen, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” (1979)
Fitz and the Tantrums, “The Walker” (2015)
In that order, too, IIRC - some serious bouncing back and forth across time.
That was unusual, of course - usually if you’re in the grocery store for 20 minutes or so, the music is all from roughly the same era the whole time. But the thing is, around here at least, the era is equally likely to be the 1970s or the past few years, or somewhere in between.
Just sayin’ your grandkids are as likely to recognize the music in the supermarket or at the Denny’s as you are.
“Muzak” is a subscription music service, much like XM radio. They play original recordings now, and have for some time. It surprised me when I worked at McDonalds in high school. “This isn’t muzak, it’s the Backstreet Boys.”
Even the original Muzak stuff was quite contemporary. It didn’t take long for a song to be converted into elevator music. Nowhere close to old enough to make one feel old.
Many years ago (I’d guess it was the year 200 or so) my husband and I went to an AC/DC concert with some younger friends. The 20-something men in the row in front of us came in with their beers, glanced at me and did a doubletake.
I looked around, and said to my husband, “Jesus, this is depressing. We’re the oldest people her.”
He looked around and shrugged. “Yeah, we are – except for the band of course.”
My father’s school was closed for a few weeks due to the 'flu epidemic.
I know I’ve posted this before, bus since you all are old, I’m sure you won’t remember:
You know how you can refer to yourself as being a “[POTUS] baby,” naming the President who was in office when you were born? For example, since I was born in 1953, I’m an “Eisenhower baby.”
When you tell someone about a fantastic new, impossibly expensive and futuristic gadget you saw a few years ago, then realize that all phones now come with that same gadget as an app, and it’s free.
When someone asks you the time, you say “quarter to 11” and they give you a blank stare.
When your customer holds out a handful of change and asks to take what you need because they don’t know how to count it.Or give you a card for less than a dollar.
I know which show you’re talking about. I was watching a video from them of kids listening to the Beatles, and one of the girls said, “They’re not as good as One Direction.” I choked.
I’m not THAT old!