i was born in 1981, but i don't identify as a millennial and admit that i frankly don't understand millennials very well.

i'm the last gen xer.

i nonetheless think the point i'm making about charli xcx is correct: this isn't music that adults of any generation would listen to, this is music for little kids. people in their 20s hanging on to this may be likely to have developmental disorders.

i would also classify taylor swift as being "music for children", but she seems to have retained an unusual amount of the audience that liked her as children into adulthood, which i actually don't understand well. i've heard a fair amount of taylor swift, and it definitely strikes me as something that hyper-targets the preteen market. i don't know if it's that a lot of millennials are hanging on to their childhood longer than they should or if it's more of a cultural thing, or even if it's that people are taking their kids to the shows, but you'd think that at least half of the people going to these shows ought to have outgrown her years ago.

i actually get the impression that taylor swift has even outgrown herself.

beyonce may be better targeted at people old enough to vote, but probably just barely.