I agree with the last. Who knows what the parents of all these 00s bands and artists were playing as they were growing up.
Now thats blown right out the water a million miles high into another lifetime, another galaxy, another solar system... because of the inter wibble wide narrow broadband highway digital inter-eggfaces, net.
God knows what Amy Winehouse or The Ordinary Boy were downloading.
I swear im listening to The Specials or madness when The Ordinary Boys are on, or a black 60s female singer when Amy Winehouse is on.
But your right, future and today artists or bands have access to all kinds of music noww, that infuences them.