Last Sunday, while I was playing Xbox, my little bro (he’s 15, but I’m like more than double his age) asked me if I knew “these songs” obviously I’m unplugged from modern pop music so I didn’t knew a single one, just by curiousity I asked him to play some older music, specifically music from the time I arrived to the country I’m living now and he was fascinated about it.
Keep in mind he was born in this country, we have the same mother but different father, so this is technically “his music” but he never heard it because apparently it was too old, despite being pop hits back in 2006 - 07
Next day, he’s listening old music all by himself, and learning the lyrics. Maybe to impress his friends or whatever. I was never like that, even at his age. Then again after reaching my teenager years I basically stopped having friends. It’s amusing.
he’s listening old music
2006 - 07
I guess this is how my dad felt the first time he heard REO Speedwagon on the oldies station.
wait until you hear someone describe Nirvana as “an excellent example of late 20th century music” like some kind of fucking archeologist!
Nirvana plays on classic rock radio now, along with Radiohead and Metallica.
For me aren’t old. But then again, it was almost 2 decades ago
Girlfriend and I were sitting around with dad and his wife and mentioned that old 80s music. In 1992. Yeah. He gave me that look and his wife was absolutely cackling with glee.
My 14 year old niece’s favourite band is The Cure and I couldn’t be prouder.
Man, wait until you learn that we had music in the eighties!
I listen classical.
I was here in the 80’s. Not a fan. lmao
Really? I know it wasn’t all great, but it saw the birth of hip-hop, the explosion of metal, and a good bit of expansion of what pop could be.
Country got a little worse tbh, but bluegrass started down the road to it’s current renaissance.
I grew up in the 80’s. Was 17 in 1987. So I was at all the right times. But I’m, a mid-90-early 2000’s music fan. Tho there was a lot of good punk in the 80’s.
Man, that’s the truth. Punk kinda got overshadowed publicly, but the bands that were active were just fucking amazing. Sadly, I didn’t discover punk in the eighties lol. I mean, I knew it existed, and I heard some of it. But if it wasn’t the Ramones, it wasn’t something you heard playing on a regular basis, much less with enough good curation. Well, here it wasn’t a common thing to hear.
It wasn’t until the nineties that I had a chance to hear a good amount of punk at all. My first, brief, stint in college was in a decent sized city, and there were some dedicated punks in my classes. One girl was wearing some black flag shirt or another, and it set off a conversation during a smoke break because I asked if that was a metal band lol.
That was my intro to punk, hanging out with that crowd, playing tapes in our cars in between classes and such.
Yep, your story sounds pretty much of how I went through it to. Thanks!
I’d see this as a sign his social circle might accept you as the cool stock adult.
I don’t think so.
I taught my son to be a lover of pop-punk like Blink-182. No regrets!
