Gen-X was born between 1962 and 1980. Gen-Y was born between 1980 and 1998. Here is why the latter kicks the former’s butt:
1. Our Teen Wolf is better than yours.
2. Charlie Sheen beats Ashton Kutcher.
3. Hot Topic is a cheap rip-off of Chess King and Merry-Go-Round.
4. We gave the world new wave, hair metal, thrash metal, rap metal, gangster rap and hip-hop in general…you have given the world Nickelback.
5. Your MTV is just another lame reality TV channell…ours played awesome music videos where Tawney Kitaen danced on top of Jaguars.
6. Our NBA wasn’t full of thugs.
7. But our NFL wasn’t full of girls crying foul for hard hits (see Joe Theismann).
8. Our presidents knew how to revive the economy and win a war in the middle east.
9. Arcades, Atari and Nintendo were more fun than anything XBox has ever produced.
10. No Kardashians…our famous people had to earn it not just sleep with a c-level rap star.
11. We didn’t have celebrate lame game shows where people sang other people’s songs or danced with Urkel…we had record contracts and Michael Jackson videos for people who could sing and dance. If you wanted to be lame, you went on Star Search like Brittany Spears and Sinbad.
12. No political correctness (see Sam Kinison and Andrew Dice Clay).
13. Our SNL was funny.
14. Two words…Frank Stallone.
In other words, we win!
You do realize that a lot of the things you’re complaining about are direct effects of your generation right? It was your parents, my grandparents generation that truly ruled. They built the old school haha
Absolutely not. Most of the pioneers of what Gen-X set forth were born between ’62 and ’80. Your generation has produced jack crap! Even though The Avengers and The Dark Knight were awesome, they were produced by my fellow Gen-Xer’s Joss Whedon and Christopher Nolan. You all were the ones who bought Nickelback and tuned in to American Idol…not us!
Chad Kroeger was born in 1974. Most of what you say may be true, but don’t blame Nickleback on us.
You bought his horrible albums. He was just smart enough to know how dumb you all are!
But the tremendous suck that is Nickleback was produced by Gen-Xers. “Even though The Avengers and The Dark Knight were awesome, they were produced by my fellow Gen-Xer’s Joss Whedon and Christopher Nolan.” If you want to claim The Dark Knight and The Avengers for Generation X because they were produced by those in your generation, then you have to take responsibility for even the sucky things produced by you old farts. The same idiots who buy Nickleback albums go see superhero movies in the theaters. If my generation hadn’t spent so much money to see X-Men or Spiderman, the Hollywood wouldn’t still be producing superhero movies, and then Nolan and Whedon wouldn’t be making them.
(And, yes, I realize how dumb it is to try to argue with a lawyer and former politician.)
No fellow Gen-X’er is listening to Nickelback. They could not have even been signed in the ’80′s (neither could Disturbed, Saliva, Gotye, etc.). Now I don’t blame Chad Kroeger for making a fortune off of Gen-Yer’s who live in their parents’ basements. The ugly dude has a right to make a living! But it is you reality show addicts who think it is a true accomplishment to dance with Urkel and ace Black Ops while sucking down Doritos that buy all this suckiness.
In 2001, “How You Remind Me” launched Nickelback to fame. It peaked at number 2 on the Adult Top 40 chart, which is the 25-34 demographic. 25-34 year-olds in 2001 were born between 1967 and 1976.
You can keep responding with insults and your own conjecture, but when we look at the facts, Nickleback is a band made up by Gen-Xers, enjoyed by Gen-Xers, and made up by Gen-Xers.
Excuse the typo:
***Made up by, enjoyed by, and made famous by Gen-Xers.
“How You Remind Me” was played on every radio station. I think WPAY played it! True crap like “Rock Star” was all your generation, my friend. That crap wouldn’t have even passed for a B-movie montage in an ’80′s movie! Just face it. You guys have terrible taste in music…and books…and TV…and clothes…
We also can remember a cell-phone free world where you actually dialed a rotary phone to call your friends. We remember a computer-less society. And…. We had V8 engines that roared and cackled with dual pipes- not some 4 cylinder turbo with a 4inch pipe that sounds like a pissed off bumble bee.
Yes, X > Y, but I gotta go with with Dowdy on this one, my parents’ generation (his grandparents’) invented rock n roll, my generation perfected it. You Xers did alright by us though.
Gen X circa 1968!!!
Corey clearly won the nickelback argument. His facts trump.
Your generation gave the world nickelback, and you personally continue to fuel Linkin Park.
First of all name tag, Linkin Park is awesome. Second, one word that summarizes why we are better–Journey. We had “Don’t Stop Believing.”. You gave the world “Party in the USA.”. That is a fact!
Linkin Park is amazing. Thanks for discrediting anything you’ve said, by saying that.
Name tag, go get me a large fries while you sing, “If Everyone Cared” in your head.