i'm 28...when did i become hopelessly unhip??

[Blue_Tires]

not quite sure when it happened...part of me can actually feel myself aging (the fact that my hair is going gray isn't helping)...

i'm about to leave that coveted 18-29 age bracket which everyone markets to, and it feels strange...I feel so completely out of it with american pop culture, when in the past i was an expert. Even on this board, people make pop culture references, use slang and have avatars that have me running to google to find out what the hell they mean....I don't know and hardly understand the music that the younger generation is into now (maybe i've listened to too much sports talk radio during my commute over the years)

i haven't gone out on a friday night in a year...due to the stresses of the job, my ideal friday night activity is sleep (horror of horrors, i'm actually turning into my parents). Maybe this is all just a part of getting older, but for some reason, i wasn't expecting it to happen like this...i feel almost...insignificant??

[awgoodkitty]

1. You've still got 20 years

I used to work in television - the demographic is 18-49 not 29. Don't worry, you're still hip!

[greblc]

2. Sorry man it happens to the best of us.

37 married two children. I've learned to embrace my unhipness by wearing strange hats and Hawian Shirts. I dress the dog and my children funny too.
It distracts strangers (and Pretty Women) from me.

[Maple]

3. It's called being an adult

because m'friend, in the vast sweep of history and the universe...some current pop culture means nada.

You have more important things to think about now than slang or some fad song.

And at 28, you're actually overdue for it by some years.

[Blue_Tires]

11. believe, me there are plenty other things that keep

my mind occupied...just thought i'd share this one...

and honestly, i don't know that i'm 'overdue' at 28; many of my friends and colleagues (many in their 30s) seem more in touch than i

[otohara]

4. Are You Living in The Suburbs?

That usually does it for people I've known. Stop listening to sports talk (Air America is OK) and get listen to music - my source for new music these days is Sirus on Dish. Watch The Daily Show, and buy some thing to smoke.

[Blue_Tires]

10. i live in a city...

i've tried listening to music on the radio again, but ironically, the only thing i really seem to like are 80s mucic (now called 'oldies', dear god!)

the one thing that really kept me connected to the younger generation was my love and addiction to video games...even though i've played them since 3 years of age, i just don't have the excitement for them that i used to...that worries me a bit, i guess

[Elidor]

5. The day you were born

But don't worry, the AARP demo is gaining clout.
:evilgrin:

[jdots]

6. Hippness begins at seventy-

just think in about ten years all the parking spaces will be for the handy capped,M.T.V.'s real world will be filmed at a rest home,millions of women will still have perky boobs.Tattoos will be wrinkled,faded eye sores......YOU'RE NOT GETTING OLDER,you're loosing bladder control ! Fuck it ,waite till you walk by a mirror and say " Who is that old fart ? " Make sure tou don't get conservative and shut down ,old age is okay if you accept it.

[Droopy]

7. Being hip to pop culture is a part of life

most people out grow sooner or later. If you think that being hip was a good thing you should congratulate yourself for actually being so at one time. I never was hip.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

8. You'll become hip again at 30

then you just get cooler and cooler all the way to about 55.

It's awesome.

I am DIGGING my thirties. If they are this great, then bring on the forties!

[Misunderestimator]

20. The forties ROCK!

[carolinalady]

9. it will come back as soon as you have teen children

you will learn all the new lingo but you will look and feel stupid if you try and use it! If you don't, your kids will change your mind.

[onebigbadwulf]

12. when you didn't realize that "hip" went out with the 70s. (nt)

[Blue_Tires]

13. lol...it did have a brief resurgence in the 90s

i guess i wanted to use a term with universal, albeit dated appeal...

[hightension]

14. I'm 38

and the 80's feel like they were a few summers ago.
Black Flag, DK, and all the bands I saw feel like they were just yesterday.
Thankfully I haven't crossed over into the conservative/midlife crisis realm.

[carolinalady]

15. you've been listening to the 80's stations again!

:7

[hightension]

18. they prefer to

be called........retro.
Which used to mean the 50's. But now it seems to refer to a time period that I remember being just a few years ago....

[Seabiscuit]

16. Is that what's bothering you, bunky?

See, I'm old enough to remember that phrase. I'll be turning 60 next May. You think you're having problems relating to today's youth????

Believe me, it does get better. Much better. Every decade. The concerns you have today will someday appear laughable to you.

[Seabiscuit]

17. BTW, back in the late 60's, early 70's,

when I was your age, those in their early twenties used to say "I'm hip" to just about ever sentence anyone uttered - meaning, I guess, "cool, I grok (understand) you." I hated it. It helped me realize I loved being "unhip". I didn't realize at the time how hip I was and how unhip those late-teen-early-twenties airheads were. It didn't take me long to discover you don't have to be "hip" to teeniebopper and young twenties' American culture to be hip to what life's all about.

[Blue_Tires]

19. ok...i feel a little better now...

i guess for clarification, i should have written that i'm feeling more like an old fogey at 28 rather than unhip (even though sometimes i feel both...lol)

[KG]

21. bro, in my 40's ,i'm hipper than i've ever been

hipness is a state of mind, not a marketing demographic. :)

[DrZeeLit]

22. Welcome to the club? and p.s. ...

... I still feel 17 most of the time.
I make a good living, spend money, and take care of my family.
Nobody makes clothes for me or items that I want to buy.
What's up with that?
I don't know. It's very odd.
So, welcome to consumer limbo!

[tuvor]

23. It only gets worse, and ya know what?--you won't care.

This is from a guy who's turning 40 next month and has amassed juuuust enough wisdom to realize that turning 40 is better than NOT turning 40.

[JimmyJazz]

24. about ten years from now!

[sbj405]

25. I'm 28, too.

I get up at 5:30 everyday and work hard all week long. By Friday night, I'm ready to crash. I know plenty of people that go out Fridays and then spend their entire weekend sleeping. I'd rather get to bed at a reasonable hour and then head out hiking of biking on the weekends. Just a matter of priorities, I suppose. It does such though, b/c I enjoy live music, but the late night, smokey bars just don't appeal to me anymore. I still go, but with much less frequency.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

26. it started for me when mtv quit playing videos

there was a hugge generation gap for me with the kids who actually watch that shit and prefer it to actual music

oh well, there's a nirvana box set in three weeks, that will temporarily send me back to my adolescence for a few days

[Blue_Tires]

28. THANK YOU!!

MTV has become a travesty, and i haven't watched it in years (speaking as someone that watched it day and night)...I'm old enough (barely) to remember when MTV was really a kind of counter-cultural thing...they had videos on like 80 percent of the time, along with pretty decent industry news and 'rockumentaries' god knows what that shit is the younger generation watches now

[miss_kitty]

27. just keep listening to good music-each new layer of kids has

something good in it. I swear that has kept me young.

I sounded like my mom once when I was 16 :scared: but that's OK...I think I recall you bike-keep that up stay fit, wear sun screen (SERIOUSLY).. The fact you WANT to google shit is a good thing-really! Don't be afraid to ask about something and if someone gives you a look, well they're an asshat. You get old when you cease to want to find out about new stuff.

and they still market heavily up to the 34-it's 18-34, and I would kill to be in that demographic again

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh-to be young AND mature!