How many of us are still listening to the radio these days? What about the kids today - are they listening to the radio?
Listening to the radio is a lost art. Nobody cares or is simply motivated to listen to the radio anymore. Those driving might be last true radio devotees. Music aside, they need traffic updates, live ones, and the radio gives them these crucial bits. While you're waiting for that to happen, there's music to keep you occupied.
Kids have next to no patience with such engagements. They are the generation of people who disengage by choice if they are not attended to or their needs are not met. So the way to sieve out those more intelligent kids out there today are to note the listening ones.
Music-wise, it's the joy of discovering awesome tunes for the generation of radio listeners. Back then, there were no technology available to search for one's preferred music. Print media were available to hype up the bands but there's no clue what kind of music these people embrace. Take Slaughter for example. You would associate the name's latent fury to Slayer, yes? But it turned out, Slaughter was more hair metal than its name suggests. By the way, that's how I discovered Slaughter.
These days, there's hardly any effort to discover music. Chances are, music was shoved into the media users' faces more than anything else. They exist as background music for IG / TT clips, commissioned music for games or forwarded to one's socials by an acquaintance. Anyway, this isn't about the radio becoming more archaic, it's about the newer generation of people being individuals who don't listen.
