The playlist is determined by the target demographic, as they are a commercial radio station. The target demographic are people who plan on being in the area and able to participate in the activities/buy products, especially those things that are advertised, for the next 20 years.
You might have convinced yourselves that you really do live in a bubble, but there are tens of thousands of people who do NOT live IN the Villages, who get this station on their radios. They buy products too. Most of them are younger than you. In fact, many of them are younger than the youngest moving in to the south side.
There is a wide variety of people who frequent the town squares and country club pools, where this station is automatically piped in for everyone present to hear. The oldest of the Villagers are being replaced by the newest. If you're in your 70's, then that'd mean you were born in the 1950's. Which means your 1950's sock hops were never yours in the first place. You wouldn't have been old enough to attend one. YOUR music was 1960's music, which was the advent of rock and roll. So oldies, for you, began in the 1950's with sock hop music. Your modern music - when you were a teenager old enough to go to dances and concerts, was rock and roll, and psychedelic music.
If you're in your 60's, then YOUR oldies are the older rock and roll and psychedelic music. YOUR modern music would be hard rock, progressive rock, heavy metal, disco, funk, and yes - rap. Rap is not new or modern, now. It's old stuff.
If you're in your 50's, then YOUR oldies would be most of what the 60's consider oldies, but add to it techno pop, hip hop, gangsta rap, and alternative rock.
MOST people living in the Villages now fall between their 50's and their 70's in age. The sock hop stuff is mostly a whimsey for this demographic, it's not a serious interest for most of us. It's fun to have an "old fashioned sock hop" now and then but it's absolutely not something we'd want to be stuck hearing day in and day out.
Our oldies are newer than your oldies. Your replaced hips are newer than our original ones that don't yet need replacing. That's just how it works as we age.
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