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Experts around the world are still hard at work trying to understand why Gen Z drinks far less alcohol than their Millennial counterparts.
"What's different about them than the Millennials? Was it covid? better education?" pondered leading sociologist at Sydney University Hellen Ross (56).
While the world's leading minds continue to search for the cause, local Millennial man and problem drinker Thomas Yates (38) says the answer is clear.
"It was the music," he explained to one confused sociologist.
"Yeah, like every song on the radio was about binge drinking."
"It made getting blind drunk way more fun," he shrugged.
Many Millennials believe artists like Ke$ha, The Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull and LMFAO, had a huge impact on their urges to drink at a young age.
"Nothing got you absolutely toey for a piss up than hearing Kesha on the radio at 4pm on a Friday afternoon," he said.
Thomas says younger generations will never understand spending their early 20s being repeatedly instructed to put their hands up, take shots and party until the sun came up.
"You'd be sitting in the car and just hear Flo-Ride explain all the cool places he's gotten drunk in," he said.
Researchers are now reportedly looking into whether the decline of Pitbull may have inadvertently saved an entire generation from alcoholism.