Eddie Van Halen Proves Generation-X Has a Problem

 

         Generation-X you suck.  Seriously, you suck.

          As all of you know, Eddie Van Halen died yesterday.  Eddie was the perfect symbol of Generation-X because of the 1984 album.  As a kid, this was the first metal album that I owned, and I know I wasn’t alone.  Van Halen wasn’t just a metal band- it was a happy-go-lucky band.  Anyone that listened to it actually felt good and the 1984 album opened up the hard rock/heavy metal doors to a lot of Generation-X.

          Here’s my problem though with the death of the guitar legend, Eddie Van Halen, the generation that should be mourning him the most reacted to his death by giving a gasp, feeling a little sad, listening to a Van Halen cd and moving on.  Moving on- are you kidding me?  Eddie didn’t even trend on Twitter for 24 hours.

          See, I really don’t understand what happened to my generation.  We all seem like that we’re content just because we have a cell phone or a laptop.  The fact that a legend is gone doesn’t seem to make an impact because for some reason- FOR SOME REASON- Generation-X is more obsessed with fitting in than standing up for what they believe in.

          I’m baffled at what happened to the ‘take no shit-turn up the heavy metal’ generation.  Generation-X should still have Eddie Van Halen trending on Twitter but no, it seems like that Eddie is a part of time that people want to forget about for some odd reason.

          Generation-X, with a few exceptions, proves that they their entire lives are just centered around being online.  Generation-X was supposed to be the group that led, not followed.  They were supposed to remind you of the greatness of Eddie Van Halen does not shrug him off because Twitter got bored.  Thanks to the indifference that Generation-X seems to have about every single social issue, Eddie on really didn’t get the tributes that he deserved on the mainstream tv.  Why?  Because Generation-X figured that texting someone was more important.  In other words, Generation-X turned into the leader of living lives behind a screen. 

          Oh gee, I guess we advanced on something after all.