Gen X Meets Generation Next

I've undertaken a massive project that allows me to sit on my bum all day and feel like I'm accomplishing a major clean up task. I'm actually burning all my CD's to iTunes. I realized I only like 1-4 songs on a CD on average and so why do I have these things "decorating" my loft and collecting volumes of dust?

So I put stacks on my desk in lots of about 2o. I grabbed the next CD on the list and it turns out to be Christina Aguilera's "Stripped" and the album cover (which you can see below) is just as trashy as she is but I like two songs on this CD and I bought it with Per Diem money when I was working in Washington D.C. Then I pulled the next CD to burn off the stack at it was Natalie Merchant's 1995 solo work, "Tigerlily". The album cover features a close up of her pensive face sort of chewing on her nails.

In 1995 I was 23 years old, a young GenX girl buying Tigerlily and this album cover represented my generation. Stripped represents 23 year olds in this generation.

How did this migration happen, truly? How did we go from one..to the next?