It’s funny because, for me, this was one of the major confusions when I moved from Europe to the US. In Europe, there are a lot of prominent subcultures, particularly in college. This was totally absent in the US in my experience. Even at places where you would expect it, e.g. underground, hard Techno warehouse raves in Baltimore. Instead the same mainstream people & opinions were there too.
In the US only GenX and early millennials had subcultures, which is also why they’re the only people in bands.
Everyone after them thinks it’s weird that they’ve confused listening to a single kind of music with an entire lifestyle.
(Boomers, who had a single counterculture instead of subcultures, similarly thought that doing drugs at music festivals was somehow actively saving the world.)
