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PaperclipPerfector  4mo ago (text post)   3505 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for July 25, 2025

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Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance, Panic and Avril

Your daughter has fantastic taste in music, but it’s a bit interesting that kids today are still listening to the bands of the previous generation, no?

Maybe there’s something to that whole “death of culture / cultural stasis” idea.

Nah, there's plenty of more modern stuff the kids like too. Every singer at that concert I took her to was under 30. The kids at her school are into country, of all things, but she likes singers like Megan Maroney, who is also late 20's. And then there's the wierd crossover ones, like Yung Gravy, a 20-something white rapper known for sampling old songs.

And that's without even getting into all the limpid, easy listening rap they know will just make me start ranting about DMX.

In my day our rappers were all hardened criminals, I tell you what.

Country has been having a thing recently, it's really just pop music that's rebranded.

Come to the UK, our local rap scene probably samples gunshots from right outside the studio.

Guns in the UK? I thought you weren't allowed even pointy scissors and pocketknives that lock.

The lack of if being allowed only increases the street cred.

When I was a kid in that actual era, I listened to a ton of music from the 80’s and 90’s, as well as contemporary music. I think that’s extremely normal and doesn’t say much about the quality of current music.

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