There are so many old songs that might soar into viral popularity with young people... if they'd only listen.

I'm reading "The Song Was a Hit 20 Years Ago. It Just Got a Video. Decades-old tracks by artists including Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, LL Cool J and Talking Heads are finding younger fans. Record labels hope new videos will feed their interest" (NYT).

But some of these videos sound like what AI would concoct. They're "overly literal" presentations of the lyrics: "In the video for Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 'Free Bird,' an older man remembers his carefree younger days before taking his motorcycle out for one last ride; the video for Bob Marley’s 'No Woman, No Cry' features a struggling Jamaican mother and her husband, who works in a faraway city...."

Here's an example, discussed in the article, of a more artful approach:

That came out 4 years ago and has gotten over 10 million views. We're told it's inspired new Peggy Lee fans to make their own videos out of Lee's recording — not only of "Fever,” but also  “Is That All There Is?” and “Big Spender.”

I wonder how that music sounds to young people, given what they've grown up listening to. Peggy Lee sounds good to me, and I grew up listening to 50s and 60s rock and roll. I'm 74, and Peggy Lee was my parents' music. But then I love going back to the 1920s, to what would have been my grandparents' music. The good is more heavily concentrated in the old. It's recorded music. Listen to whatever is best.