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Wait, that guy is "the biggest artist in the world"? I've never heard of him until this whole thing happened.
On the other hand, I very much live in a musical bubble where I basically only ever hear music that I myself put on, and even I had heard of Bad Bunny.
I may have not listened to the music of most modern artist, like, IDK, Sabrina Carpenter, Dua Lipa etc., but I've still heard of them. Not Bad Bunny though.
That moment when we realize we're at the ppint where pop culture is passing us by rather than being targeted at us...
(Honestly, if it weren't for some of the younglings on my soccer team I'd have only learned about Bad Bunny in the Economist, which is a pretty embarrassingly uncool way to learn about pop culture.)
Nah, that would be fine. Pop culture isn't cool. Pop culture is (mostly) boring shit for the masses, because it is bland enough, that a majority of people don't have an issue with it. You are fine if you only hear about it from your grown up magazine.
To each their own. I definitely used to just listen to my own punk shit and disdain pop but the older I get, the more I see value in something fun with a catchy beat that a lot of people can dance and sing to at once. The classic tunes I dig were also pop once before they became old people tunes.
It's like anything, if all you listen to is pop, that's probably not great but if you refuse to listen to any, you're probably missing out.
If you had told 12-year-old me that someday I would enjoy Ace of Base, I would have thought you were an idiot. Yet here we are.
Hey, I really don't want to talk you down or be destructive or anything. My point is on the contrary:
You are not uncool, lame or whatever, if you don't know contemporary pop culture. There are some fine songs, everybody likes. They become classics, as you say. Most pop shit is just a short-lived fad, nobody will remember in a few months. If you like that kind of music, it is also absolutely fine.