Indeks : p. 157-163 ; Prince was born in 1958, so he is a baby boomer. However, he did not demand boomers learn a new cultural language in order to under stand him, as Run-DMC and Nirvana would. Prince validated their musical taste and knowledge., which they appreciated, just as Adele succeeds, in part, because of an older audience that remembers 1960s soul, or Lady Gaga, partly because of an audience that fondly recalls Madonna.