At first it was perfectly logical, but as time passes there is a slowly-increasing chasm/void of music they don’t claim to play, and I wonder how long it will continue.
I know it is probably just institutional inertia, but at some point it sends a weird message; as if there is no music worth playing from those decades, or there are nameless/formless decades not worthy of mentioning, or those that they avoid and are trying to forget.
On the other hand, if it is intentional, then maybe they are trying to keep those who grew up in the 2000’s from feeling too old or out of touch with the present?
I know a radio station that does it too, it’s fucking hilarious. I think old people just don’t realize that the naughts and the tens are distinct musical times
Hundert Komma Fünf - Das Hitradio!
Are you telling me this temporomusical parenthesis is a worldwide phenomenon?!
Yes indeed - At least here in germany, it is. And I’m sure in lots of other places, too :)