Comments on: In Defense of Music and Standards http://johnmcdonald.info/defending-music/ Blogging about politics, life, and the web Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:13:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hbdt20499 http://johnmcdonald.info/defending-music/comment-page-1/#comment-3247 hbdt20499 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:58:38 +0000 http://johnmcdonald.info/?p=114#comment-3247 Interesting blog and well-written piece. And yes, Jackson is certainly not an Xer. I see it as rather sad that some Xers look at people like Obama and Jackson and somehow try to claim they are Xers when they so obviously aren't. Jackson certainly did have a big impact on Generation X. But most Xers were too young to have felt the full effect of this legend. He is fundamentally an icon of Generation Jones—-born 1954 to 1965, between the Boomers and GenXers. Jackson--born in 1958-- was a classic GenJoneser himself. If you’re not familiar with the term yet, google Generation Jones, and you’ll see it’s recently gotten a ton of media attention, and many top commentators from many top publications and networks (Washington Post, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) now specifically use this term. The Associated Press' annual Trend Report chose the Rise of Generation Jones as the #1 trend of 2009. Here's a page with a good overview of recent stuff about GenJones: http://generationjones.com/2009latest.html Interesting blog and well-written piece. And yes, Jackson is certainly not an Xer. I see it as rather sad that some Xers look at people like Obama and Jackson and somehow try to claim they are Xers when they so obviously aren’t.

Jackson certainly did have a big impact on Generation X. But most Xers were too young to have felt the full effect of this legend. He is fundamentally an icon of Generation Jones—-born 1954 to 1965, between the Boomers and GenXers. Jackson–born in 1958– was a classic GenJoneser himself.

If you’re not familiar with the term yet, google Generation Jones, and you’ll see it’s recently gotten a ton of media attention, and many top commentators from many top publications and networks (Washington Post, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) now specifically use this term. The Associated Press’ annual Trend Report chose the Rise of Generation Jones as the #1 trend of 2009.

Here’s a page with a good overview of recent stuff about GenJones:
http://generationjones.com/2009latest.html

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