Re: (TV) A newbie listens to MM

[Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>]

Well, actually, a lot of the kids I know are really into "weird".  My
daughters go to a sort of arty middle/high school full of proud nerds,
though, so that skews things.  The difference that I see has more to do
with how they absorb music and culture.  It seems more fragmented.  I don't
mean that their attention spans are shorter; that's sort of the cliche
answer and I don't see it as really accurate.  They just seem to put the
tapestry of the art and entertainment that they absorb together in a
different way, and the way music fits into it is something other than
sitting down and listen to a 45-minute singular work, like we all grew up
doing.

With the younger kids, their concept of what "rock music" even means is
really perplexing.  Some of them grow up a bit and work it out, but for the
ones that just continue taking received wisdom at face value, well...
they're going to nurse some really odd perceptions into adulthood and be
really difficult to talk to about this stuff.  I could go on and on about
it, but I won't

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Glenn Cooper <glennwaynecooper@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I come across this all the time, too, with teenagers -- this fear of
> "weirdness". It's as if they are afraid to step out of bounds even an inch
> for fear of god knows what; maybe being ostracised or something? Depressing.
>
> Glenn
>
>
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> On 22/12/2015 5:54 AM, Scott Simpson wrote:
>
>> There will always be some kids who are into it.  Our current SPL in the
>> scout troop (highschooler) is discovering all the stuff I listened to in
>> the '80's.  Joy Division, Smiths, Clash, et al.  and into '70's stuff as
>> well.  I gave him my copy of the Jim Morrison bio.
>>
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>> Wow, this girl did a lot of research for a band she didn't end up liking.
>> I have to say, I found her conclusions to be depressingly predictable.
>> Don't know if any of you have kids or teens, but IME, rock to them is like
>> ragtime was to us. They just don't listen to it. My oldest son's friend
>> casually mentioned he was into Dire Straits, and I was so overjoyed that a
>> young 'un liked a band with guitars that I overwhelmed him with
>> suggestions...but no, he just likes a few Dire Straits songs. The stuff I
>> suggested was "a little weird," he said.
>>
>> Not sure whether there's a way to "fix" this situation or just ride it
>> out. A couple of my kids like rock (the other hates it with a passion), but
>> even they have fallen sway to the pop and hip hop that dominates the
>> airwaves.
>> K
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