If I wanted to categorize people based on when they were born I would just use their birthday. Year, month, day.
Since it is logical ans easy to understand.
When we are kids, each year is of significant value and distinct.
It is not until we get older that we start to think of whole decades as a certain period.
@EvolLove Yet music from all decades has common themes of love and lost.
And who decides that music should be the universal standard for categorizing generations?
And it is not consistent. Certainly albums released at the end of the 80s have more in common with albums released in early 90s than in the early 80s.
Still we can talk about decades. But with an understanding of overlapping. We might even misplace bands and albums because "they were out of time"
My point is that humans are not car models. Each year the same model is produced again.
@EvolLove Could just say what year the song came out and have people categorize how they want to. Mood, feel, bpm, length, genre, artist, etc.
Time is an illusion in a sense, the moment is all we experience.
I had a friend who was a die hard fan of Elvis Presley. And another that was into ACDC while I was listening to John Lee Hooker. We were all the same age but listened to music from entirely different decades.
Sure I might recognize the hit songs from my youth, since they were played innuendo on the radio and such, but I would never identify with lets say Madona or Bono.
Music is the production of creative humans. And not a tool for lumping arbitrary generations together.
@EvolLove Exactly music is self expression
@TenaciousGoat
The music industry, movies and sports are for them smoke and mirrors. It is entertainment. They use them as tools for control and to profit.
They would very much like us to dance along like mindless drones.
But my point is that we are not categorized by music.
It would make more sense to use the position of the planets. But that too would be arbitrary.