Some disc jockey had the audacity to play Taylor Swift on the oldies station and I wanted to swerve my car into oncoming traffic. Do words not mean anything anymore? I guess every single sond is "technically" an oldy because they were all recorded in the past; there aren't too many songs from the future, and every time a song is released in the present it's suddenly from the past! What has society come to when they follow up King of Wishful Thinking (1990) with Shake It Off (2014) and pretend they're both oldies?
Context: Johnny B. Goode was released in 1958 and was considered an oldy 27 years later in 1985, so I'm more than comfortable calling a 33 year old song an oldy, sure, but a 9 year old song? NINE?!? Nine years is considered old now?
Be honest, how old does a song have to be for you to consider it an oldy?
<5 years (after 2018)
5 - 10 years (2013 - 2018)
10 - 15 years (2008 - 2013)
15 - 20 years (2003 - 2008)
20 - 25 years (1998 - 2003)
25 - 30 years (1993 - 1998)
30 - 35 years (1988 - 1993)
35 - 40 years (1983 - 1988)
>40 years (before 1983)
Put in the tags whether you make a distinction between "oldy" and "classic." I could be swayed towards calling Shake It Off a classic, MAYBE, if the argument was convincing and it came from someone whose opinion I respect, but I refuse to call it an oldy until at least 2030, and even that's pushing it.
