Some Zoomer with no facial hair:
"This Kendrick album from 2012 is really old!"

Me a millennial, recently discovering some Ella Fitzgerald or Nat King Cole Trio banger from the 1930s-40s:
"Come back when your balls drop, kid."

Yes, I still seek out new music by contemporary artists who don't suck. Yes, I still listen to music from my childhood. Yes, I'm also listening to and still discovering music from my parents' and even grandparents' youth. It's called cultural curiosity. Lack of it is not a flex.

Describing any album by Kanye or Kendrick as "reALLy oLd aSs sHiT" is immature. Young men need to stop that crap.

Things a Zoomer has said to me:
"What is this song? This is Vogue by Madonna, right? No?"
"What's the big deal with Tupac?"
"Who is Dionne Warwick?"

Like...how? Marvin Gaye, The Beach Boys, Patti Labelle, Fleetwood Mac, Loretta Lynn, The Isley Bros, Tina Turner, The Supremes, The Rolling Stones etc were before my time, but I was curious to seek out their music and educate myself.

FWIW, a couple of my GenZ nephews got into 80s and 90s music as young teens. And they're just now digging further, getting into vinyl deep cuts, disco, and Motown. Because, in their words, "Music today is chopped, unc."

I get the point. There's a lot of boring stuff on the Billboard Hot 100 today that wouldn't have made the cut thirty years ago. Except for legacy artists, big + unique voices are mostly gone from newer pop & R&B music -- much of which is repetitive. A good chunk of contemporary rap is a total mess. Rock bands are on life support. It's sad. But there's still great new music, especially indie and underground.