At least the kid was listening to the music. I’ve lost count of the number of kids walking around in “Cure,” “Def Leppard,” “Poison,” etc. shirts who have NFC about the band. They just think the shirt looks cool. Which… of course it is, but look it up on YouTube or something, FFS!
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A few years ago my daughter asked for a Sublime shirt. I jokingly told her to name three of their songs. She replies "It's a band?" 🤦
I’m genuinely curious how many have looked into the bands on their shirts. Most of the ones I’ve seen represent some genuinely good stuff.
Unledded.
At least you can always tap their shirt to learn more though!
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"Go back to listening to your old man bands like The Normal and Alien Sex Fiend or whatever."
The Cure has been around for several decades. Only way not to hear of them is to be neck deep in country or bluegrass
I never heard of them, and I very not 11, and deeply into Belakor, Breakdown of Sanity, Inflected Mushroom
You seem Deeply Disturbed. Like the kind of person who would be caught Converting Vegetarians.
Or 11
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My sweet daughter you should dig pornography!
I don't get it. Young people are listening to our music it is odd.
I grew up listening to my dad's music (eagles, Steve Miller, Blue oyster cult etc...) so it's not that unusual that your genetic offspring might gravitate towards certain tastes in music. That said I mostly embraced punk music and my daughter has embraced Sabrina Carpenter and the likes... Not that I want her to enjoy my music, but the stuff these days is largely trash and covering topics that are hollow and pointless. And yes I know not all modern music is that way, but the stuff being shoved in their faces through multiple media sources largely is.
I'm no pop-music apologist, but I sincerely doubt that Sabrina Carpenter's music is any more hollow and pointless than the average generic Top 40 hit from the '80s.
For instance, here are the lyrics to Manchild by Sabrina Carpenter, which is #2 on the charts right now.
And here are the lyrics to I'm Alright by Kenny Loggins, which was #10 on the charts at this point in the year in 1980.
Pop music is pretty much still pop music. There are some analyses that say it's getting simpler over time, but I don't think it was ever all that complex to begin with.
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I’m excited for when this happens to my. My wife is super close minded about music and won’t listen to anything not on the radio and I’m the opposite. My hope is at least one of my kids will be into weird stuff. If I’m lucky it’ll be both.
IME it only takes one music loving parent genre blind parent to get kids who are eclectic listeners.
TikTok, oddly, has also gotten them into a lot of old music. I'll come home and they are listening to Depeche Mode or Boz Scaggs.
Headphones or did she just assume you didn't know because you asked what it was?
"Tell me tell me tell me..."