Generation Forever Young

This time last week we mentioned the 60 Minutes show about the Echo Boomers who think they’re perfect; this week we noticed a great article in the UK Times about ‘Generation Forever Young‘ – a generation who believes they’re still youthful until they’re 48 years old (at least). Janice Turner, the author of the piece, wrote:

Once the generation gap was a clear divide. My
friends and I ridiculed and abhorred our parents’ tastes in music or
clothes. But now youth culture is dead while mainstream culture is
youthful. The sales of teen magazines are declining because they
struggle to define uniquely teenage subject matter that young readers
cannot find in adult magazines.

Teenage girls watch Desperate Housewives, Lost and Sex and the City
with their fortysomething mothers, both wearing jeans from Topshop, a
funky top from New Look. The ease of downloading music means teen boys
can dip into classic Stones and Kinks, while their fathers can discover
the Killers and Kings of Leon.

The Times: We That Are Left Won’t Grow Old…

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