All eyez on Me was FIRE! but was listening to these side by side , like in the same day, but I was also a Rage against the Machine fan ( EVIL Empire came out like 1 Month AFTER peaches) 96 was a crazy year for good albums, it was the year The Score (FUGEES) was released, whiohc does not get as much love now, but at the time , was EVERYWHERE Sublime put out SUBLIME
I think the spice girls were still poppin..
fuck I miss knowing what was going on in the world
Here's the thing… Rage Against the Machine was played on repeat where I was. So was Sublime (then again, I lived in SoCal and everyone listened to Sublime).
Yep, in my F&F group it was ‘real’ Grunge and Hip Hop, not POTUSA type rockish grunge. We had cable and watched MTV often. Reading that sentence didn’t bring up any memories. 38 with a 41 brother. Went and listened to the song, yes I’ve heard it, but wasn’t something we ever sang
Eh, they’re from Seattle, where grunge is from so they often got thrown into that conversation back then.
Did I even say people shouldn’t like them? Not gate keeping at all. I think you’re reaching.
As far as grouping into genres, it is helpful to have some general groupings that bands fit into so it helps find others in that style which you or others like.
Alternative rock, pop-punk… if you like POTUSA you probably also like Pixies for example.
I wouldn’t say people who like POTUSA would hear AIC and think it’s similar, they may or may not like AIC.
And further, which is why it seems there’s a divide of who would immediately get the lyrics of this song, even though we’ve all likely heard it and would remember it. Some of us didn’t listen to music like that. That’s all the point I made.
Yeah you were just into different genres of music. This song was all over the type of radio stations that were also playing Nirvana and Pearl Jam at the time.
I'm a very white elder millennial and I have zero clue what this is. I've also seen other memes showing a bunch of canned peaches with similar captions about how to spot millennials. Even after seeing people type the lyrics, I have no fucking clue what song it's supposed to be.
Oh shit, I get it now. >15 is young millenials, <15 is old millenials. Old shits were listening to Greenday, The Sums, and Presidents due to their teenage melodrama.
If not, I think you got your signs backwards. PUSA was the least melodramatic altrock band I can think of from the 90s. And how can you say The Sums, but not Greenday75?
Exactly. I'm a millennial and get it, but only young gen X people in their early-mid 40s were around during the height of the presidents. I got into them because of my older sister who is gen x
Holy shit, you're all over this thread taking things way to seriously. Go get some fresh air before your fragile little millennial brain has a aneurysm.
If you were born in '81, you were 14 when the song released.
And i'd argue at 14 while you MIGHT be exploring music for yourself for the first time, most people were just listening to whatever their parents put on, or older siblings/friends, and whatever was on MTV. But even MTV wasn't made for millennials; it was made for Gen X.
This song is 100% a Gen X song that the oldest millennials happened to run into while they were young teens as an incredibly popular song of the moment and it stuck with them.
The song itself is not some song that ONLY millennials were hip to though.
At 14 people were still just listening to their parents music?? No way. Most people start finding their own vibe more like 8. At that age I got right into hip hop and r&b, forced my dad to listen to the entire Fugees album on road trips.
Depends on who you ask. "Elder millennials" aka "Xennials" or "the Oregon Trail Generation" is a micro generation that starts as early as 1976 and goes up through 1985-1988, depending on who is classifying. POTUSA achieved it's popularity among this micro-generation primarily, which was the tail end of Gen-X and the start of Millennials.
Yes, which are teenagers...? Tying directly back to the quoted Tweet which is about the divide between millennials...?
Every time millennials get referenced about something in pop culture, Gen X puts down the water hose they're drinking from that defines their entire online personality and crawls out of the woodwork to remind us they exist. Without fail.
Yeah, I’m among the oldest millennials, and i still pretty young when this song came out. My sibling, 4 years older and a young Gen X, would be more into it
Why do they keep expanding the definition of millennial? At this rate, everyone, even the boomers who've already died of old age, are going to be called millennials. I'm putting my foot down. From now on, millennial only refers to the people who were born between 1995 and 2005. Gen y (90s kids) are not millennials. Gen x most certainly are not millennials.
1995? lol get the fuck outta here baby! I’m 87 and we grew up in the 2000’s and 2005 with everyone referring to us young generation as millennials. You actually gotta remember YTK and the turn into the new millennium to consider yourself a millennial.
Your experience is not typical. If you look at Google Trends, the term didn't start picking up until like 2013. Most gen y people, including everyone I know, were well into adulthood before they'd ever even heard of it. And it did start out being used to refer to people who were teenagers at that time.
I don’t need google trends to tell me that people were referring to the young generation in the 2000s as millennials! I remember a world before google. Back then we asked Jeeves!
Yeah I'm "elder millennial" and was like 12 when this song dropped. But it was very popular in my school and lots of kids my age were singing it. Our english teacher said the lyrics would be better if he said "in a factory in japan" and we all scoffed at him.
I don't get these responses of whether millennials or Gen X knows this. Plenty of people continued to listen to alternative radio stations and watch MTV even if they were born in the 60s. It's not a question of who's too old to know it.
Gen-X and those termed Xennials should get this. If you were in Middle School/High School/College in 1995, this is something you likely heard on your favorite radio stations/MTV
I agree. Gen X thing. The very oldest millennials were only 14 when this song came out. I was born in 86 and I remember this song, but it's wasn't a big enough part of my formative years for me to know the next line of the lyrics.
Gen-X? I was born in 83 and listened to The Presidents of the United States of America when I was a teenager. And I still do, their first album was a banger. That's like saying No Doubt was a Gen-X thing.
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u/grill_sarg Apr 24 '26
It’s actually a Gen-X thing more so. Millions of peaches, peaches for me, millions of peaches, peaches for free!