It doesn’t matter if you don’t know who Steven Wilson is; his point about music and how we engaged with it compared to today is spot on.
I do think, however, that this was primarily a guy thing, as he describes it. I could be wrong.
Here is a Steven Wilson song with the great Guthrie Govan on guitar-
Is he forgetting Taylor Swift? Beyonce? Ed Sheran? Lady Gaga? (None my styke, but nonethess..)