So we laughed about it, chatted about music in general and then carried on working. It was only later that I realised that our mockery was unduly harsh. Firstly, the summary had in fact come from a survey by a leading young people's portal from interviewing over a thousand young people.
And secondly, more tellingly, did we know better? Could we write better?
In fact, could anyone actually sit down and write an editorial note that took the diversity of the music, the social groupings and the fashions of today's young people and then put them neatly into categories without coming off as skin-crawlingly out of touch? How many young people would willingly put their hands up and claim to be a "townie", an "indie" or a "mosher"? Do today's "goths" actually listen to The Sisters of Mercy any more? Would they take offence to being called goths?
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