This is a great thread.
I, being 15, have had many phases with music.
I'll start at 10 years old, when I started discovering music. I was all about boybands and Britney.
Then at 11-12ish Maroon 5 came out, and it was like heaven for me. With Jason Mraz, Liz Phair and a couple other artists I had completely altered in a year.
In 8th grade I had a 6 month Beatles phase.
and then in the summer between 8-9th grade I discovered FM and was in LOVE with it, and they still are my fave artist.
And the kicker would be that To this day, I still like all of the artists I mentioned.
I still jam out to the Backstreet Boys occasionally, and I LOVE Maroon 5s new album. The beatles, not as much, but I love when thier songs come on the radio. I could not be more exicted to get my We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things CD tomorow [Jason Mraz]. So over the last 10 years my taste hasnt altered too much. Heck, I sitll listen to my Lion King soundtrack from when I was 3!
Other teenagers/young kids, sure I think that sometimes thier music tastes are so wishy washy. One day they say they love one band and the next day they hate them. Those kids are idoits, and I'm sure a majority of the world knows that.
I dont think that it gives bad press or anything to the band if thats the question at hand. Take FM. the Greatest Hits album is on the top 100 rock albums on iTunes everyday! and so many new artists can't even claim that. and Im sure young kids my age are liking it, cause they listen to those mix stations that play 'Landslide', 'GOYW' and 'Dreams'. And of course the new people like Desitnys Child that sampled EO17 shows the original song to a whole new generation so they get interested.
But I think that young kids liking older music is overall a good thing
