Everyone Forgets About Gen X 

I’m so old that when I hear “Stop” I’m not sure whether it’s in the name of love, hammer time or I should collaborate and listen.

Shhhhh. We WANT them to forget about us. Let the two generations on either side of us bicker over who is worse while we know they both are. ;)

Haha, my teen daughter asked me what it was like in the "olden days" a few months ago, I was truly shocked, I asked her "what you mean like in Grandmas day?" and she laughed and says "Noooo, when you were a kid". Meanwhile the kid is wearing the fashion I wore at her age and listening to my generations music because "vintage" stuff is cool apparently. I don't think I've recovered from this conversation yet.

Shout out to my GenX peeps! The glue holding these silly, last few generations together. The key is we were the bridge between the old world and the new. We are pioneers in that sense.

Being a 41-year-old high school teacher means that I get to see the next generation every day. Our stuff might fall into the "classic" category but high schoolers are really into the 90s right now in style and music. I'm planning to ride this "I'm cool because I know so much about this stuff" wave as long as I can.

I'm Gen X, nearly 52 and this low key freaks me out. For the last 20 years or so I've had these odd, somewhat emotionally painful moments when I think about a movie, music or event that happened that was significant to me. Then, the slow dawning horror when I realise 'oh that was 30 years ago' AND I WAS AN ADULT!!! Whilst my body is starting to feel my age, my mind is having trouble getting past being 35 max. LoL

I love being Gen X. The last independent generation. We figured stuff out for ourselves. I grew up with every race and I didn’t care. If you were a good person then I liked you. It was just a better time to grow up!

When I hear our music I just think “FINALLY, someone my age got promoted to control the music and we have arrived!” 😂😂😂

Thank you so much for this! Proud to be a Gen X! Little to no parenting, good music, lots of self reliance. All translates into the wise beings we now are!

I totally feel this. Our city used to show "classic" movies in the summer-Mary Poppins, Wizard of Oz, etc. Then one summer, they had the nerve to show FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF as an old classic. I nearly had a nervous breakdown.

Definitely, the best period to be born in, absolutely loved it, original music, kids talked to each other, if you bumped into someone they didn't want to start fight, and you can actually go on real dates due to you having social skills.

Gen X - we are the last generation who remembers what it was like to grow up without mobile phones and social media ... and the long wait (years) between when a movie played at the cinema and when it was finally released on VHS

I’m Gen X and I could relate to every minute detail of this. I once heard someone refer to our generation as Gen Invisible. It dawned on me that day they were right. All the millennial and baby boomer drama and no one discusses OUR generation. 😂 I don’t like to call our elders boomers, I think it’s disrespectful, but I understand the huge disconnect between those generations. We are stuck in the middle, which gives us the superpower of being able to relate a little bit to both of those generations. I wouldn’t trade being a teenager in the 80’s for anything in the world. One day I was listening to an 80’s song on the radio and I realized it was on an oldies channel and they called our music an oldie, but goodie. I was appalled! Nooo it’s my parents music that’s oldies!! 😱😲😲🤣

Oh -- I feel this video. My terrifying moment was at the gas station where I heard "Welcome to the Jungle" -- at the GAS STATION. I knew it was over at that point. Although, (philosophical moment here) Gen X has typically been "on our own" for most of our lives. We were the latchkey generation, we're the ones whom everyone forgets about. We learned that no one is going to be there to save us, so we have to be self-sufficient. It's a very different life view, but also sets us up to know that we're responsible for our own lives and happiness. And we know (and are constantly reminded) that no one gives a crap about us. And that's ok.

I know we are old, but I love being part of Generation X. I'm so glad I grew up during that time. Wouldn't trade it for anything. I don't think we care if they forget us because we know how cool our generation is. We don't need anyone's recognition. 🙂

It’s all 80s music all the time in our Safeway. Sometimes I feel like jamming out in there, and it’s bittersweet because this was the music of my teen years… Gen X 4EVAH!!!❤️‍🔥

I had the same reaction when I found out the golden girls were supposed to be in their early 50s. I always thought they were in their 70s.

Can absolutely relate. I lost my sh*t when I heard The Cure at both the bank AND in the elevator at the hospital ON THE SAME DAY. I honestly thought my life had ended.

When "Enter Sandman" came on the oldies radio playing at Subway... I felt joy and sadness in equal measures. Then flat out consternation when the teenagers in line ahead of me were asking who played it and why did it have to be depressing. Gen X... the world will never understand us.

This had me laughing so hard. Now when I hear the word Peppa, I think Pig! Because I am a Grandma and this Gen X woman is not ready to admit I am old enough for all of this.

Gen-X won the freaking Amazing Race! The millenials didn't. Y'all are entitled to a mic drop for that.

As a generation X, I have vivid memories of frequently walking a mile to and from elementary school (3rd grade through 6th grade) without either a teenage or adult chaperone. One generation later, I was in shock to see dozens of cars lined up at a school bus stop in a housing development to drive high school kids (9th grade through 12th grade) a two minute walk from the housing development bus stop to their nearby homes.

All of this speaks to my soul. It all started a few years ago when I was taking my time in the grocery store because they play such good music… 😂

My husband said he loves hearing our 80's/90's jams at the grocery store and singing along, loudly, to embarrass our 18 yo. 😆 I also realized that when we were in the 1980's and all the 50's stuff was kind of nostalgic and cool, like the 50's "oldies" rock and roll . . . It was 30 years prior. Now, when my son's generation calls 80's music "oldies" and I'm like, WTH? I realized, CRAP! It was over 30 years ago. ((Sigh))

As a 54 yr. old GenXer, I feel your pain. Along with all my own aches and pains.

The first time I heard Nirvana playing in the background at Walmart, I said to myself "Not cool Muzak....not cool." I then realized that me knowing that background music was often provided by Muzak, meant that me and my music had matured to the "elevator phase" and thought, "Well played, Muazak...well-played."😁

😂 when I hear our jams in places, I just think “woah, they’re getting more progressive with music choices!” 😂😂😂

My husband and I are Gen X and we definitely go to the restaurant early to miss the crowds! And I think he looks adorable in his readers. 🥰 More Gen X videos!

Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters, Metallica--all get played on the local classic rock stations. Stuff that was new when I was in college in the early 90s. This really hits home.

I adore being a gen x'er. We hit the jackpot with our generation. There was a lot of good vibes and humour. I miss that.

I am a Millenial and I never understood why Gen X was never talked about. I am sorry you guys are forgotten, love this video! LOL 🤣

I so feel your pain. I was at a team meeting last week for election workers last week. One of the managers decided to read a thing about how generations can work together effectively, went from boomers directly to millennials. We really are the invisible generation. On the bright side, we had The Clash.

My wife just said " Are they listening to our discussions?" We are right there with you on all of these topics. Thank you for representing Gen X with incredible accuracy. Our family enjoys watching your videos.

I swear if they turn Pearl Jam or Nirvana into elevator music I’m gonna lose it right there in Tarjay! I love you guys! ❤

It’s only been recently that I’ve realized how freaking cool we are. Which goes along with one more awesome characteristic we possess- not being self-absorbed! I’ll be honest- I LOVE it when I hear our music while I’m shopping. Yes, I’m that 53yo women singing along, nodding my head, snapping my fingers to the beat, with a smile on my face. 🎶❤️🎵❤️🎶

Another Gen Xer here! I aged myself when I announced to friends, "the problem with many teenagers today..." They looked at me and laughed, remember when we thought we would never say that?

Walked into the store a month or so ago during the back to school tax free weekend and noticed that *all* the music was stuff from when I was a kid. It was nice but then I realized that I'm officially "old person buying for the family." The cognitive dissonance was deafening.

I just remember listening to this awesome radio station at my sisters house. They were playing all the hits from my college days. Imagine the disbelief when I heard it was the “oldies station”! My niece and nephew told me they loved retro music. I couldn’t believe that I was officially “old”.

I’m proud to be GenX too. Always forgotten, always ignored. To be honest that’s fine. We get to do our own thing and let everyone else go to their hell in their hand baskets. Personally made handbaskets at that :)

This really hit home. I am 64 and when I think of "oldies" I think of music from the late 50's, 60's and early 70's. Now "oldies" is music from the late 90's early 2000's. Feel--so--old. But I don't care what anyone says. I still say the Moody Blues, Genesis, Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac were some of the best bands ever!

50yr old Gen X from '72 here. It's official: We're old now, not yet senior citizen & the music of our childhood is become "Classic". We made it...🥳.

Dude, I love hearing my jams in the grocery store. It's like an acknowledgement that Gen-Xers have the best stuff. I feel bad for my 10 year old daughter, though, because if anything by David Bowie, Cheap Trick, or Journey comes on, *nothing* will stop me from singing as I stroll through the aisles. *N O T H I N G.*

I had the same reaction when I saw they were playing Friends on Nick at Nite! Nick at Nite is the time slot for the "old shows"!

When I hear one of OUR jams in a store I just start singing along and dance to it like no one is there. LOL

I'm 46 years old and it hurts every time I turn on classic rock and oldies radio stations and hear 80s music. But on the topic of our generation being forgotten or erased, I have read so many articles recently that have different generations listed in them for statistical comparison and they just skip Gen X completely. Some things include us, of course, but it's bizarre to be reading a news article that just leaves Gen X out entirely. And yet it has generations from before Gen X and after Gen X.

Also my daughter came home from school wearing a Red Hot Chili Peppers shirt and asked if if i knew their music, I then replied, I saw them live several times and she said, " wow that , must have been a long time ago! Im 50 and she is 22...Yes they are phasing us out

I just discovered this video and very much enjoyed it. Your video made me laugh and brightened my afternoon. :) Gen-X here whose just fine with getting older. In some ways, being part of the most ignored generation has prepared us for the rigors of Elderhood. We've learned to be our own cheerleaders and to more or less, not care much what the world might think of how we choose to live our lives. As for the music in places like waiting rooms, for now it's from the 1990's. Soon, the Millennials will get to hear Brittney Spears and Justin Bieber's early hits and it will be fun to see how they handle it. :D

I will never forget the one time I went to the grocery store and the whole store, full of millennials and gen x, started singing "I Want It That Way" it was glorious.

I was in PT and they were playing all 80s music. I loved it until I mentioned to the therapist how great the singer was and she said "Who?". 😭😂

Seriously glad to see this & know I'm not the only one having these freak outs & temper tantrums. "THAT IS NOT CLASSIC ROCK!" said by me daily

I am actively pushing for our generation to be named The Awesome Generation. All in favor?

Here is something fun, though! I LOVE hearing my music as I shop for groceries! But I liked my parents' music growing up, so 45 is still young, technically. Also, being a teenager in the 90's meant that none of the stupid stuff I did got recorded!

gen z here and i gotta say i’m in love with gen x music. honestly it’s way better then current music!

I was driving home from out if town Christmas shopping with a friend last year when we lost the radio station. After a little searching we found this great staion that was playing all the good stuff we listened to while in high school in the 80's. Until...the station announced that it was the Golden Oldies! Needless to say I'm still not over it.

LOOOOVE my gen X people here!!!!!and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE yall played smells like teen spirit in this video!!yes it's absolutely crazy our music is now considered classics.i was born in 78 and I could not have asked for a better year to have been born in!!i even got some great 80s life in there as well.times were way better then. Malls I really miss. Blockbuster was awesome even though the late fees added up.even landlines with a 20 ft cord was cool with me.back then ppl actually remembered people's numbers cuz it was necessary lol.not just tapping a name on cell phones. Yeah things got more convenient but those things are nostalgic. I'm 44 now and I surely don't feel like it mentally or physically at all!!it'll be another 20 years before I admit I'm old.dont throw in the towel yet!!live life to the fullest and keep on trucking

Gen X and our music is considered oldies!! 1980’s music is still the best from top to bottom. We have a local radio station that only plays 60s, 70s and 80s music and it is called Classic rock The Mix. They have an app that the radio station streams on for when not in the local area. This is my most listened to station.

I found the funniest part of the entire video the part where Penn is standing behind Kim in the bathroom while she talks about her skin care rejuvenation fixation. 🤣😂🤣😂

The excitement of using a coupon and organizing. Lol! Too relatable.

Gen X'er here and 50 - when my mother told me yesterday that in 5 more years, I can join the local Senior Center.... I cried. I may be 50 but look 35.... But anyway. Glad to be a part of this generation who grew up with our imaginations and no internet. Were physically active riding bikes and walking everywhere and played outside all day long without parents worrying and hovering and still SAFE - and as long as we were home for dinner, all was well! Had a fabulous childhood!

I remember a good number of years ago when the Olympic Gymnastics team from the U.S.A. was killing some time waiting for the final team scores to be posted, and the background music was playing "YMCA", and all of the gymnasts started dancing. The announcer commented "All of these girls weren't even born when this song was popular".

As a 43 year old dad I definitely sat out on the back porch waiting for the storm to arrive for the first time a few months ago. It was very peaceful. I guess I'm at that age now.

I still remember my mother's reaction when she started seeing the stuff she grew up with in antique stores.

Love this video! I’m 51 and totally relate to everything. Love your take on the modern Gen X life, shock, horror, and bewilderment. I’m subscribing to your channel based on this video alone. It’s that good!👍

51 yr old Gen Xer here! I work in a grocery store and they're always playing my jams!

The upside is the songs are still getting airtime! Enjoy them wherever you are and dance like nobody's watching! 😊

Green Day and Creed were played on the classic rock station by me. I needed to pull over and take a minute

Gen Xer here. Thank goodness for you guys. Don't let us get phased out - and faded out! - like Marty's siblings in that Back to the Future photo. And by the way, you BOTH make Gen X look FABULOUS! Greetings from Melbourne x

Well Iam 56. First year of Gen X. Early years My folks listened to Country and Western. With some Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry LEE Lewis thrown in for good measure. Then in middle school Started listening to Eagles, Bob Seger, Skynard, Pink Floyd, Boston,Journey.and thel like.Then my little brother 10 yrs my junior.Started listening to Pearl Jam, S.T.P. Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins. First time I heard Daughter and Rooster.I was hooked.

Goodwill is always playing Golden Years and Tuesday's Child by David Bowie. One time an employee put on Poppin Tags by Macklemore and weirdly everyone know the lyrics from the 80 yr old grandma to the 8 yr old. The whole Goodwill looked like the music video with everyone rapping and dancing all silly. Magical!

I actually love that when the retro lunch hour comes on the radio at work I can sing along to almost every song while my staff don’t recognize most of the songs.

The fact we can hear at all is amazing. Hard rock was loud, rap loud as hell out of the car, r&b loud. I know you remember it being so loud it bust the speaker. I mean how many was replaced in a year.

I'm 36, right on the cusp between Gen X & Millenial. I cannot begin to say how offended I was the first time I heard Good Charlotte in a grocery store (the song came out when i was a HS senior). I related to this so much (and choked on my coffee when i laughed)!! Y'all made my morning!

You know whats really depressing? Ross 55, Joey 55, Chandler 53, Monica 58, Rachel 53, Phebe 59!

I hear you.. I turned 56 this year, and have been a member of AARP for about 5 years now. Seems crazy, but, I've noticed 'our music' being played at doctors appts, and in the grocery store as well! I certainly don't feel middle-aged most days.. (Aside from my various aches!) 🤣🤣🤣 Love watching your channel over the past 2 1/2 years. It's crazy to know some of the people that I went to high school and college with, some of them are starting to become Grandparents for the first time. Time passes by so quickly, and it gets faster with each additional trip around the sun. Gen X shouldn't be pushed aside, We Stand United!!!

I'm a Gen Z'er by age (23, born 1999), but has the heart and soul of a Gen X'er. That generation rocks the house, and definitely don't get talked about at all. Boomers and millennials keep destroying each other to smithereens, while Gen X sits back and enjoys the show. Gen X grew up on the best music yet, 80's new wave, punk rock, metal, gothic, and post-punk, and of course, invented grunge. The shopping mall arcade was their second home, and they created the mall rat, which I am. MTV's first audience dubbed the MTV Generation. Many great celebrities hail from Gen X. Kurt Cobain, Jack Black, Will Smith, Dwayne Johnson, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Dave Grohl, Billie Joe Armstrong, Gwen Stefani, Mariah Carey, Shirley Manson, Dita Von Teese, Anne Heche, P!nk, Laura Dern, Trent Reznor, etc.

😂😂😂, love this! I feel the same way. Matter of fact, here in San Antonio, Texas they just opened a new dance club. What for it…. It’s called Be Kind and Rewind. That’s not all, it’s full of young people😮 lol. Yes this is our thing! Gen X power! Lol. 😂

Has a 48 year old woman I can relate, proud to be Gen X and I will not be phased out! So thank you for speaking up for us... lol I love our generation, imo we had the best time of everyone!

We’re the most under appreciated, overlooked generation in history. Sandwiched between our boomer parents and our millennial and Gen z kids, we’re all just wondering when our turn will come? Looking more and more like that’s gonna be never. So this hits in more ways than one lol. Also, I heard Nirvana last time I was at the dentist.

As a member of Gen-X I can't forget myself or the ones I went to school with. I can't as well forget the freaking awesome music we listened to. Long live the memory of Kurt Cobain!

1972 born, 1991 Desert Storm, 1993 Somalia, 2005-6 Iraq. And people say we can’t say things anymore, when we grew up with Archie & Sanford & Son, Alien, M*A*S*H, Groove Tube, Kentucky Fried Movie, Amazon Women On The Moon, Eddie Murphy Raw, 2 Live Crew, The Rodeo Song! We will not be silent. I was a sub-par baseball player, but my team came in first nonetheless, so I got a trophy with a golden batter, while the second place team got silver batters, and the 3rd place team got a ribbon; none of the other teams got anything. I got tickets to the Indianapolis 500 and a banquet from The Indianapolis Star for being a top 25 paper Carrier. I was in 3 movies: 8 Men Out, Diving In, and Hoosiers, just a face in the crowd, an extra. I met Roy Schieder and Danny De Vito on a flight and shook hands with them as a child. I met Jimmy Buffet at 13 at A1A, his store. Who doesn’t sing along? Stepped on a pop top…….that frozen concoction that helps me hang on….! A Cuban-ish or Cuban American girl tried to pick me up at 13 and my mom freaked! She was 16 or so, working at Publix in Florida. I couldn’t figure out why she cut me so short of making friends with her at the time! Just months before, there was no intervention in making friends with Ohio girls! They’re same age as me.

I love the continued adventures of Gen-X! Utterly relatable. I also object to our music being called "classic" rock because historically we had oldies (which have a VERY specific sound - think 50's be-bop) and classic rock (which again had a very specific early hard rock and metal sound). Grunge and alt-rock also have a very specific sound that isn't the same as those others, and playing them all together is gross.

This is awesome. From this 45 yr old mom of 4, you guys are totally rad.

When we no longer recognise the music being played on Classic Rock stations, THEN we will be old… 💀

As a GenXer, I can totally relate to this video!🤣🤣🤣 Especially when I heard Frankie Goes to Hollywood, The Cure & N'Sync being played at the grocery store the other day! This can't be happening!!! 😅

Oh, and don't forget. It was the forgotten Gen X team that won Amazing Race because they grew up in the generation who learned the old fashioned way through books and paper MAPS, etc while also learning the new fangled computer, vcr, video games, etc that all turned into our phones.

Yep, I find myself singing along to the ‘ambience’ music while I’m shopping. At first, I was like ‘cool, they finally got more current with their selection’. I’m feeling older by the day.

Literally, I watched this today and then went to the doctor. They were blasting Bon Jovi when I walked in and I almost died. Great video!

The worst for me is when other adults talk about reading books like Harry Potter when they were in grade school… books that came out for me post-college. 😂 I don’t feel that much older than them but them saying things like that make me feel oooooold. 🤣👵🏻

A 1967 Gen X'er here and I can so relate to this. SIgh, we are not old, we are not old, we are.....well technically old now.....Dang, overlooked till we were phased out......

I was born right on the cusp between boomers and X. I will never forget the first time I heard an easy listening version of my High School favorites! It was CRUSHING! I still get the shakes just thinking about it. 😳

Was at work recently, and they played "do you really want to hurt me" by culture club on the store intercom and i commented to a younger coworker that i hadnt heard this song in ages, not that i was a huge fan, but it just reminded me of growing up in the 80s and being in middle school, and he had know idea who culture club was, nor who boy George was!!! I was in shock!

I feel you on all this. They are playing my songs in the grocery store as well. We eat between 6-7. 7:30 is super late for us to eat dinner

Honestly, I've been feeling this way since I was 23 years old in 1999. 1999 was the first year I heard about the Millennial kids behind us, the frontline Millennials or "elder Millennials" as the 26-32 crowd calls them, are our little brothers and sisters, and I was shocked that the media was focusing on them so much. Grunge music of the 90s died in 1999 in favor of Millennial boy band music and all kinds of other bubble gum pop. 1999/2000 was the first time I heard about "80s retro parties", something no one would have done just a few years earlier around 1995 or 1996. Here we are in 2022, and the media STILL talks about 35-41 year olds like they are high school kids or traditional college age kids. And many in our generation got kicked out of the cool people spotlight before we even celebrated our 25th birthday, while the Millennials can be fuckin' 35 years old and still thought of as some bad ass generation of cool people. And then there's Gen Z, the teenagers to age 23/24 real current kids now.....

What I think is great about our gen, is that we had the best music - rock n roll music that is mostly, but just the amazing variety btwn rock, grunge, blues, rap, country, etc. even pop had variety in its sounds from one song to another. So much variety in the 80-90s music, so many artist, heck even a lot of our clothes designers were trying to think ‘futuristic’. The turn of the century all music has a similar sound, clothes are just a remix between the 60-90s. Our music is preferred by the gen’s under us than their own music...that all has the same monochromatic sound regardless of what genre you listen to. I find it so ironic that we’re referred to as the ‘forgotten generation’ and the ‘boomers’ predicted us to ‘not amount to much’ since we were coming after the ‘greatest generation’ aka great-depression/wwii/great sacrificing generation and the great revolutionary/boomer generation...but we brought forth great music and the great technological boom. Idk why millennial generation is so ‘praised’. Most are whiny, lazy, lack motivation, yet expect to be handed everything...not to mention idk who’s more confused them or gen z.

So happy to find you! I’m 57. I don’t know what I am but I do have a spin toothbrush and a spin skincare brush. I admit I still have cool 😎 80s hair so when I was booked on Stranger Things (season 3 episode 1) I didn’t have to go to “hair and makeup”. I don’t watch the show and my girls were freaking out that I was working with these actors. Ha!!

I felt this a few years ago when the local high school marching band’s halftime show at a football game was ‘Black Hole Sun’ 😭😅🤔

I danced my way through BJ’s one afternoon. The music was on point! I got several weird looks but the other Gen Xr’s were dancing too!

I'll never forget sitting the in dentist chair, mouth full of hardware, Just as I am - Air Supply was playing and the dental assistant was singing along softly to it. The dentist asked how she knew this song, he'd never heard it before. She said, my Dad used to listen to it all the time when I was little, I think it's by Chicago or something.... I was Graaa... GRAAAA.... Aiiiiirrrrrrr Slllliddddss!.... they were like, you okay? I was thinking... just slowly dying that's all...

LOL! Old Xer married to a young boomer, so this was relatable - especially the loud club music in a restaurant. No skin gadgets here, just soap and water :) I have been offended by Applebee's using all our music in their ad campaign this fall! Our location was so bad it went out of business despite being the only bar in a tiny town.

I'm a gen Xer who could never really get into alternative/grunge music. I reverted to 80s and 70s *true* classic rock at that time.