THIS is what teenagers listen to.

[Heritage Softail]

My son is 22 now but he jumped on board the "Crazy Train" when he was about 13 or 14.
Here he is at 18 after I had given him a few years of lessons (I'm a proud poppa

Very cool.

 

[Ultron]

Fucking old people everywhere here. I like electronic music and metal....and jazz, and pop, and ambient, etc etc etc. Open your friggin' minds.

 

[Ventura]

I have no problem with the OPs video clip... It's dubsteppy house prog crap, and that's fine. It wasn't that long ago I was throwing myself around dancefloors wasted on chemicals listening to this kinda stuff for 16 hours straight. It is what it is - details are slightly different, but the meat of the matter stays the same.

The way I see it, kids have to "find" something they can relate to musically. Most of the time it's herd mentality - very few will step out of the collective mass to find "their own". But once they get into it - it'll either be a proclivity to "shallow and pointless", which will lead to what most people buy and listen to today, just "marketing-pop", not music; or, they'll break out of that avenue and look for actual "music", and that's the good stuff that leads to all the other good stuff.

I can't control what my kids will "want" to listen to as they grow older (3 and 5 right now), but I know they dig what they hear nowadays which is a lot of Zappa, Tool, AIC, Deftones, definitely a LOT of Ozomatli in this house, Crystal Method/Chemical Brothers, Stones, hell - tons of good shit. Just no current day youth oriented "pop", that's all.

For the record, if it has autotune, it gets destroyed

 

[Anonymous]

Kids (and adults) will listen to what they're exposed to
The more you listen to a certain style, the better you can distinguish between the good and the bad in that particular style, and that goes for every style
Good disco: Chic, Donna Summer (Giorgio Moroder)
Bad disco: Village People, all the crappy one hit wonders
Good modern hip hop: Kendrick Lamar, J Cole, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye
Bad modern hip hop: Soulja Boy, Lil Wayne, ASAP Rocky, Tyga
etc.

 

[Valtyr]

I don't mind synth sounds but this dub step/skrillex shit is lame. Too repetitive, you have heard damn near everything the song has within the first 4 beats.

 

[Mesa\Kramer]

There is no hope. My Nephew told me that this is what everyone between the ages of 14-19 listens to.

Exodus?

I didn't hear no Exodus in there..........

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[Rock Bodom]

My son is 22 now but he jumped on board the "Crazy Train" when he was about 13 or 14.
Here he is at 18 after I had given him a few years of lessons (I'm a proud poppa

Very cool, I think I also remember a video of your son doing a really nice job on Headed for a Heartbreak? I think I also recall he was into stuff like Necrophagist too (I applaud his tastes all around)

 

[Shiny_Surface]

My sister is 20 and is way into this, sort of pop/house crossover.

Plagiarize it a little and run it through a boosted Peavey 6505 for forum consumption.

Just buzzed up and messing around...

 

[Mudder]

My sister is 20 and is way into this, sort of pop/house crossover.

Plagiarize it a little and run it through a boosted Peavey 6505 for forum consumption.

Just buzzed up and messing around...

That's awesome. Now you just need some beer commercial models running around.

 

[Shawn Lutz]

Kids have their own generation and stuff that they are into. Don't force your kids to like what YOU like because YOU think its cool...their friends don't think YOUR old peoples music is any good LOL, Now if they really like it on their own its all good

Funny the older I get, (I'm 49yrs old) the more I feel like I'm hanging around a lot with my Dad's generation. Whenever I older dudes complaining about saggy pants, music, piercings , fads or styles etc I think to my parents complaining about the metal music, my long hair, earring, tattoo and skin tight jeans that bring the voice up a few octaves.

Styles, music and fads change from generation to generation. Older people don't understand what or why the next generation is into but the bottom line is styles, music and fads all change from generation to generation but the kids are really just the same as you and I were at that age.

Now get off my lawn and carry on.

 

[thiswaythatway]

Fucking old people everywhere here. I like electronic music and metal....and jazz, and pop, and ambient, etc etc etc. Open your friggin' minds.

Open your ears and use your mind. That stuff above is mindless and void of any talent or creativity.

 

[nevusofota]

I lived in South Florida for graduate school in the early 2000's. We would go to South Beach for the clubs on the weekends. The bottom line was we listened to what the chics were listening to. Most teenagers and young adults are driven by ONE main underlying drive, the opposite sex. I believe that its young females that set the trend for the masses. The previous examples in this thread are what young women want to hear and dance to, the males just follow. Hard rock/Metal was huge in the 80's because women were into it also. If the women weren't, 80's rock wouldn't have been half as popular.
What male wouldn't like dubstep/electronica if it brought half naked females to grind all over you.

 

[rupe]

Very cool, I think I also remember a video of your son doing a really nice job on Headed for a Heartbreak? I think I also recall he was into stuff like Necrophagist too (I applaud his tastes all around)

Right on...good memory, that's exactly right

 

[clubshred]

There is no hope. My Nephew told me that this is what everyone between the ages of 14-19 listens to.

Jesus this fails on so many levels...

 

[Zap]

You young people with your rock and roll eight track tapes...

 

[ejecta]

The song in the OP wasn't at all my thing but glad there is a variety of music out there. Also I liked some crappy music when I was younger as well so I wouldn't be so quick to slam what the younger people listen to.

To be honest some people on here have posted some music from bands that they are into but to me were just as bad as this. To each his own.

 

[Anonymous]

To be honest some people on here have posted some music from bands that were just as bad as this.

 

[Mailman1971]

Here is what I am teaching my kids.
Actual video clip.

 

[Anonymous]

Kids have their own generation and stuff that they are into. Don't force your kids to like what YOU like because YOU think its cool...their friends don't think YOUR old peoples music is any good LOL, Now if they really like it on their own its all good

Funny the older I get, (I'm 49yrs old) the more I feel like I'm hanging around a lot with my Dad's generation. Whenever I older dudes complaining about saggy pants, music, piercings , fads or styles etc I think to my parents complaining about the metal music, my long hair, earring, tattoo and skin tight jeans that bring the voice up a few octaves.

Styles, music and fads change from generation to generation. Older people don't understand what or why the next generation is into but the bottom line is styles, music and fads all change from generation to generation but the kids are really just the same as you and I were at that age.

Now get off my lawn and carry on.

the thing is, at least the shit we listened to (and still do) growing up was MUSIC and MUSICAL about sex,drugs and RnR, not auto tuned/poly shifted/ accutracked to make it sound remotely like a song about the stupid fucking club and bottles of goose and putting your hands up.

fucking DREK this current pop music is. drek and drivel.

 

[Mailman1971]

As much as many people laughed at Guitar hero games....
it opened the doors to alot of kids to great guitar based music.
I was surprised at some of the tunes on these games.
Accept balls the wall?? bark at the moon? Metallica songs....Pantera?
Glad they came out....