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Originally Posted by JerryLBell
For a lot of people, the only good music is the music they listened to in high school. For others, it's the music they listened to in college. If you really liked music, you may have kept up with popular new musicians for a few years after that and maybe drifted away from the new stuff as you got into your career and/or raising kids. If we assume the retirement age to be 66, that would mean a high school graduation year of about 1972 or a college graduation year of around 1976 for new retirees. Add a few years to that for those that kept going to dance clubs or concerts. So we're talking "peak" music for new retirees of being the 1970s to early 1980s. Guess what "new" genre came out around then? Rap! New retirees coming to The Villages have actually listened to rap and hip-hop and some of them actually like it! If WVLG has a mission to play the music us retirees like, they need to continue progressing through the ages into newer musical styles or they will fall back and only appeal to the older demographic in The Villages. So, good for them for mixing in "newer" (though hardly "new") styles along with the "oldies" from the 50s and 60s.
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Ummmm, I retired three years ago. I'm 53 now, 50 then. I graduated HS in 1987, and undergrad in 1991.
AFAIC, you need to skew your numbers lower for accuracy's sake.
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