Art & Creativity Quote by Sean Booth

There’s a sly confidence in the way Sean Booth frames the future as an inevitability: “They’ve been brought up on the best music. It’s gonna be so good.” It reads like optimism, but it’s also a quiet flex of curatorial power. “They” isn’t just the next generation of listeners; it’s a cohort shaped by access. In an era when every era is available at once, being “brought up” on the “best” isn’t about rare crate-digs anymore, it’s about upbringing by algorithm, older siblings, scene elders, and the slow drip of canon-making through playlists.

Booth’s intent feels less like predicting a genre trend and more like defending a principle: good taste compounds. If you’re steeped early in adventurous, formally ambitious music, you don’t grow up fearing weirdness. You demand it. Coming from a musician whose work is famously meticulous and anti-easy-listening, that matters. It’s an argument that difficulty isn’t a barrier; it’s a baseline you can normalize.

The subtext has a pinch of generational anxiety, too. Artists with long careers often wonder if the kids will “get it,” or if the culture will keep flattening everything into background noise. Booth flips that dread into faith: saturation won’t kill discernment; it might sharpen it. The casual “It’s gonna be so good” lands because it refuses nostalgia’s usual script. Instead of mourning a lost golden age, he bets on inheritance - not of money or fame, but of ears trained to expect more.