As I’ve said numerous times, I don’t understand people who get stuck on music they listened 
to when they were 12-20 – which seems to be the most common age range at which to become musically incapacitated.
Seems like 95%+ of people this happens to.
If you liked Madonna in 1988 and still like music from that time now, you by all rights should like Charli XCX now.
Fuck, “Boom Clap” sounds just like Madonna if her music had been slightly inflected by hip hop.
I liked Madonna in 1988, and I like Charli XCX now.
Not liking Lorde I can understand a little better. Her music is more sui generis and blends usually-disparate sounds and is much stranger (and better, IMO).
That said, I just don’t operate in the mode of many people where everything that happened before they turned 25 was great, and everything after that is irredeemably terrible.
“Boom Clap” is a damn fun fine song, if you like pop. And I do like pop and many other genres too.
Honestly? When I first heard the song on the radio, I immediately thought of Gwen Stefani, not 1980s Madonna.
I don’t understand people who get stuck on music they listened to when they were 12-20 – which seems to be the most common age range at which to become musically incapacitated.
That’s because you’re not mentally sound tracking your life. You’re not mentally time traveling when you hear an early Madonna song from your youth. I can think a new artist is pleasing and catchy but I’m just not going to have the same emotional reaction to a pop song now.
You’re probably right about the emotional connection. I don’t have it, and therefore probably can’t understand it.