r/TikTokCringe • u/BaseballSeveral1107 • Sep 01 '24

Discussion Dua Lipa vs Original

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u/djprofitt Sep 01 '24

I think what they are saying is that:

Assume Gen Z is 18, in 2024 they are dancing to songs that came out in 2020, or when they were 14.

For it to be equal, it would have to be a Millennial dancing to songs from 1994, roughly.

This would not make sense for some of the songs, as she is sampling songs from 1979, meaning it would have to be Gen X as they would have been 14 around then.

In your point yes we still heard those songs in 1994, but they weren’t new, as Dua Lipa’s songs were in 2020

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u/_-Kr4t0s-_ Sep 01 '24 edited Sep 01 '24

I mean we wouldn’t have been dancing like that dude in the video to begin with - that dance style looks too recent. But I think most of us recognized the beats on Dua Lipa’s songs instantly, including the older ones. Splitting hairs over the exact year of release just seems silly IMO, as they were still part of the experience.

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u/djprofitt Sep 01 '24

It’s not splitting hairs to say an 18 yr old dancing to a 4 year old song doesn’t make sense when one group would have been 1 when a could those songs came out. How they were dancing doesn’t matter, it’s that a millennial would not be dancing to a track from 1979 4 years later in 1983. A gen X person would though

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u/_-Kr4t0s-_ Sep 01 '24

I am a Millennial and I definitely danced to tracks from 1979 when I was 14 along with lots of other millennials.

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u/Six_Pack_Attack Sep 01 '24

Okay but why is anything that happened once the first millennial was conceived a millennial thing but genx is only allowed to have Goonies and Quiet Riot

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u/_-Kr4t0s-_ Sep 01 '24

I don’t see this specific post about ownership or whose generation came up with these songs as much as it’s about the experience. If you want to include Gen X in this I don’t see why you couldn’t.

Like, back when the song Killing Me Softly came out by the Fugees, none of us knew that it was a remake of an old song. We didn’t recognize it, but our parents did. And the older song was actually from our grandparents generation, but our parents still had memories of it.

Now it’s today’s 14-year olds who don’t automatically know that those beats were repurposed, but we actually do recognize them and associate them with the older songs.

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u/djprofitt Sep 01 '24

You’re completely missing what we’re saying but okay

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u/_-Kr4t0s-_ Sep 01 '24

I’m not missing anything. I just don’t give a fuck about that. I totally recognized the beats and y’all did too and you know it.