How “hardwired” is music to youth?

I’ve always been more inclined to music over other expressions of art, and over the years have developed a taste for many wildly different types of music. Being a teenager in the south during the seventies, I was of course “raised” on southern rock, but now find very little appeal for the genre, and wont shed any tears if I never hear “Free Bird” again.

Although my interests primarily now focus on older jazz that pre-dates my youth, I find that much of the music from my formitable years passes my test-of-time, and holds up very well to this day. I especially enjoy hearing a song from the era that I haven’t heard in years, and thinking, that is a damn fine tune.

So my question is this” will the kids that are 18 years old today, be sitting back in 2025 saying “you know that Britteny or Timberlake or Snoop or Puffy song was one of the best ever recorded!” ???

ie: will they feel the same thing for a Britteny song that I feel for an Al Green song?