Tired of Hall&Oates

Sitting in a waiting room recently, I hear a young receptionist singing along to “Rich Girl” by Hall & Oates:
You're a rich girl, / and you've gone too far / 'Cause you know it / don't matter anyway / You can rely / on the old man's money
I hated the song when it came out in 1977 and still don’t like it or anything else done by a duo that had lots of hits but never critical acclaim.
The young woman singing wasn’t born in 1977 (she may have not been born in 1987) and I wonder if she knows anything about Hall & Oates. I also wonder how much longer I’m going to have to listen to Hall & Oates in waiting rooms.

When the show Happy Days came out in 1974, my parents loved it, mainly because of the music it featured. A 50’s revival swept over the land and a lot of radio stations had a 50’s format through the 1980s. In the early 90's it seemed some of the music I grew up on was beginning to be classified as oldies or classic rock. Tired of listening to bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, I switched to alternative, grunge and rap. A lot of my friends called me a sell out, but my children thought it was cool that their dad listened to the same music that they did. In an unexpected twist, by the time they reached high school, my sons were listening to a lot of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

If my calculations are correct, music released in 1977 should fade away somewhere around 2017. Soon after, artists like Nirvana, Dr. Dre and Pearl Jam will be considered oldies. I wonder if I’ll mind when the receptionists sings along to Smells Like Teen Spirit?