All of the performers I mentioned, were once respected, popular and "hip". But these days, they aren't anymore, or they have at least lost a lot of their "hip factor". I think that's sad.
But remember, being unhip doesn't mean they never were popular, or weren't talented.
Ask the current generation to make a list of the 100 most hip artists => not even one of the people I listed would be mentioned. Or do you people really think that somebody like John Denver would be on such a list ? Forget it.
Why ? Because they are just not hip anymore. Do I care ? No, absolutely not, some of them remain excellent. Who cares about being hip.
It's my personal experience that quite a lot of people secretly like those old dinosaurs, but don't like admitting it because it's bad for whatever is left of their - cough cough - street credibility (Hey I don't really like Joe Cocker okay, my brother just asked me to listen to it, I'm more into dark emo dance trance fusion cool jazz ).
Maybe I should have stressed the fact that I was mainly talking about the "musical elite" we all know (Bee Gees ? Gimme a break, I only listen to Nick Drake and Brian Eno, the intellectual stuff) and the current generation of teenagers, who seem to worship the most overrated artists ever.
Of course, I should have known that it would be off topic the moment the thread was created (Hip ? Unhip ? What do you mean ? Queen isn't unhip.)
This thread is about prejudices, not about deciding who's hip and unhip and why and why not. I'm not interested in that.