Music is one of those things that always show the gap between generations just by the music people listen to or have listened to in the past. You just tend to see people that are in the late Baby Boomers, and the gen X generations tend to listen to music that was made in the time when they were growing up. Music like classic rock and roll, Summer of love, and Classic Soul this is the music they grew up with and still listen to till this day. Then fast forward to the millennial generation you see different types of rock like pop rock, blues rock, alternative rock, and punk rock that’s just a few. There are also a lot of millennials that listen to electronic music seen at many different music festivals around the world. Millennials are also known for being the first generation to start consuming music online by downloading it off the web on websites like Napster which we will talk about a little later. Then you finally get to Generation Z which we most of us in this class are in. Generation Z is a big Hip hop rap generation, a lot of us listen to rap and some people listen to mix taps and small-time rappers on apps like Sound cloud, and Spinrilla. There are also a large group of gen Zs that do listen to country and different types of rock. One thing to make sure not to forget I am genializing and there are people in different generations that listen to music from many different time periods. With saying that there is undeniably is generation gap with music as a whole, every generation looks at the newest generation’s music in a negative light. Mostly because they don’t understand but that’s the beautiful thing about music is everyone has their own taste but that’s okay it should be an outlet for people to express themselves.

One of the most interesting times in music was the Napster file sharing. Napster was an online service founded in 1999, which was a website where people could file share their music to people around the world kind of like a social media. This was very troubling to the music industry because people where no longer buying music they were just downloading it off the internet for free from Napster. A lot of music artists lost a lot of money do to this free downloading the estimated lose is more than 50 million dollars. I wasn’t old enough to remember the time of Napster do to the fact that I was only 3 years old when it was popular. But the gen z kids had their turn that downloading music in the early 2010s on our iPods. I remember having friends that wouldn’t update their phone for the longest time because they would lose all their free music. What do you think, should we be downloading music for free? Did you ever download music as a kid? What do you think of Napster, should they of shut them down or should they of had the chase to change?