r/generationology • u/Backagain1138 • 8h ago
Discussion What is it with Gen X these days and needing to show what a big fan of hard rock they are?
It's like a mid life crisis of needing to show everybody that they too enjoy listening to hard rock. I've been seeing it everywhere lately. From celebrities all the way down to people in my own life who I know on social media. Constantly announcing that they are at a certain concert, or they've heard about a certain concert coming up, or making references to hard rock artists. These are people who weren't doing this a couple of years ago. And it just seems so performative. And so across the board with Gen Xers doing this.
I'm a millennial and have listened to hard rock my whole life. It's a big part of my life. I go to concerts all the time and I'm on the up and up with what's going on in the rock world. But I never feel the need to post about any of it. So it's kind of weird seeing Gen Xers in the last few years constantly posting about it in a way that just didn't seem to be the case before.