Okay, so I'm going through the AJF playlists and I'm at the Aaron one and number one you have impeccable taste and second do you think Aaron would be old enough for disco? From my calculations he would have been in his early tweens, so would they be kind of nostalgic or would it be the kinda thing for the kiddos and mom to tease him about that he was old enough to enjoy disco?
(omg thank you i love music so much)
i’ve gone round and round with this myself, but i think it’s kind of a fun thing for him - he would have been in late elementary/early middle school and popular music was the only thing on the radio, so he was absolutely exposed to it. i think he enjoys it as he gets older (like we all do with the advent of spotify and other streaming, etc), so mom teases him plenty. he also leans into it for the meme.
(canon!hotch is totally different because those clowns have him born in 1971, which doesn’t make sense at ALL if he graduated from LAW SCHOOL in 1990 like he said he did at one point - but i digress)
a lot of my music choices for hotch came from 70′s-80′s classic rock (obvi), and popular music from the mid-late 80′s (when he and haley were in high school. some of the older stuff is a little before his time (think like a couple of the first songs on the playlist - take it easy, sister golden hair, and renegade for example - they all came out in ‘72-75, so he would have been little) but it would have been something his mom listened to. (and ajf!hotch is his momma’s boy, i don’t make the rules) in my mind, evelyn kept a lot of records (and later cassettes) so that influences ajf!hotch’s music taste significant;y
the peak of disco (sorry - i’m being A History Person for a second) came with saturday night fever in 1977, when ajf!hotch was 8 or 9 years old, and faded from there into the early 80s. personally, i still have a connection to stuff from my pre-teen/childhood years (for me, it’s very early taylor swift, john mayer, green day, weezer etc.) so i stretched a little bit for him as well.
if you wanna know what tf we’re talking about, check out the ajf media folder!