American Idiots

We were watching the second round of the latest American Idol last night. By the end, I noticed that I could count the number of singers who actually tried to sing a melody on my thumbs - maybe on just one thumb. Everyone else produced overwrought outbursts of yodeling and pointless melisma. I felt like grabbing each of them and shouting "pick a fucking note ! Carry a tune ! "

Is a loathing of popular culture part of growing old?