What are your kids listening to in 2021?

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The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift

mk1 (24) : giant swan.
mk2 (17) : chase & status

16 year old mostly listens to grime and 90s rap. has recently discovered drum n bass. just walked past his room though and he was listening to miles davis and clicking his fingers (aww)

don't really hear my 14 year old listening to much but he did ask me the other day who the smiths were (think one of his friends likes them?). and he did have a school music assigment last month where he had to write a few paragraphs on either coldplay, oasis or blur (ikr! fucking teacher), so we had a frank chat about them (he chose blur btw, he quite likes that woohoo song)

Oldest: Taylor Swift
Middle: « ambient » as given by youtube recs
Youngest: no idea, seems knowledgeable about current pop

We don’t talk much about music as I feel it’s something you should find without parental interference

i have no kids that i know of but maybe 50 but they probably listen to the same as me electro punk rock rap!

9 year old is into mostly Kiss and “The Chicken Wing Beat” right now.

The 19 year old listens to various metal sub genres I’m too old to understand. And mixes it with 70s jazz fusion and prog.

earlier today on the Aya Nakamura, Naza and the new french urban scene thread:

my kids already regard [Aya Nakamura & Stormzy's] “plus jamais” as old news

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), zaterdag 2 januari 2021 15:55

what are their current faves?

― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), zaterdag 2 januari 2021 16:34

whatever’s in “france top 50” in spotify lol

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), zaterdag 2 januari 2021 16:46

#onethread

Boys aged 9 and 6, exclusively listen to Minecraft and Among Us parody songs.

The 19 year old listens to various metal sub genres I’m too old to understand. And mixes it with 70s jazz fusion and prog.

― that's not my post, Saturday, January 2, 2021 11:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

That is my worst nightmare.

Boys aged 9 and 6, exclusively listen to Minecraft and Among Us parody songs.

― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, January 2, 2021 11:57 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

And this is more my reality except my kids are 14.

xpost That is my worst nightmare. Hard agree. Gotta find something to annoy the 'rents though.

Weird Al, songs from the easiest level of Rock Band, "Everything is Awesome." (ages 7 & 8)

My 8 and 5 yo were intensely into Dua Lipa over the summer. I didn't really mind it, she's pretty good.

5 yo reciting "Mwah Mwah Mwah Mwah" was good for a lot of laughs

from that "your spotify profile sucks" bot thingy, 13 yo really likes: joji, billie eilish, bts, mac demarco and moow

fave songs:
C418 - wet hands (minecraft music i think?)
Tame Impala - Yes I'm Changing (ugh)
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel (my influence)
beabadoobee - The Moon Song (not my influence but I approve)
Wednesday Campanella - The Bamboo Princess (my influence)

C418 is the Minecraft soundtrack, yes

my oldest (12) has gotten pretty heavily into pop rap of all kinds. he makes his own “trap beats” on garageband. it’s all i can do not to walk into his room in my underwear, push my glasses up the bridge of my nose and tell him actually, trap refers to drug dealing, and i would prefer he uses other words, please

:D

Tracer's kid sound way cool.

My daughter (12 going on 19) is into Harry Styles in a 'should I report her to the police?' kind of way (she's signed up for most of Louis' Instagram show, too). The boy (14 going on, christ, 48?) is into Sabbath and Metallica. One of the joys of lockdown has been late Friday nights, sitting up with one or both of them, listening to lots of different music and discussing, following rabbit holes etc.

That sounds nice, Chinaski. We've had a few chats recents about country music from the 60s to 80s, and it's been nice too.

I don't think my kids are particularly invested in music fandom, and that may be in part because they've never put any resources into it: neither money, nor much effort really. My oldest is 20: she's only been to two concerts, both with me, and I did the hustle to get the tickets. Whereas when I was 14 I was getting up at 5am to queue for concert tickets, and had seen probably 100 shows by the time I turned 20.

"Bamboleo"

The 19 year old listens to various metal sub genres I’m too old to understand. And mixes it with 70s jazz fusion and prog.

― that's not my post, Saturday, 2 January 2021 23:47 (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

the kids are alright

Mine is 3 months old so she’s stuck with whatever I play for her. Last week it was latin big band and mambo when she was awake. This week it’s been soft balearic like Dominique Dumont and K-lone, she seems to find their music relaxing, play it for her in between naptime. Made this playlist called “watering a flower” which she seems to like when feeding:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7KwlC2e6gjmlZeGRGYsCci

best baby! :D

the 10-year-old mostly listens to video game music (minecraft/stardew valley/splatoon/etc) but is finally starting to explore other music. they like the local band beach bunny and my wife took them to see that band at an all-ages show last year. other bands they've expressed an interest in: gorillaz, my chemical romance, and canadian rock group mother mother, which is the first actual band they've told me about that i hadn't heard of before.

The 13 yr old is currently having a guitar lesson and is learning to play Dust in the Wind - she prefers mopey acoustic indie stuff though. The 10 yr old also plays and is into the Strokes, Arctic Monkeys and surf rock.

from fall 19 into early '20, my then 3 year old DEMANDED to hear the Rutles. This was cuz she liked the Beatles and I got fuckin' tired of the canon, which circulates on the Sirius Beatles channel…I know that sounds insufferable, like that's something the dick music person dad does, forcing kids to listen to Remain in Light. But this is possibly mitigated by the fact that I never thought I would get tired of the Rutles album. But I did.

She, a 4 year old now, now likes Scorpions, Def leppard, and even some other metal acts they play on Ozzy's boneyard that aren't named for animals. She really likes Priests' 'Electric Eye." Have you ever tried to explain surveillance to a four year old? Or to say, "don't you wanna listen to hip-hop? Or Dua Lipa? Howzabout Haim?" No. Only metal now.

I have been thinking about starting a rolling Sirius XM thread…I have come to think that its a just a way to have a deeper experience of commercial/conventional radio…would anyone be interested in contributing to that?

i don't have sirius but i'd like to understand more about how it works and how ppl listen to it

Have to be very careful about expressing negative music opinions around your kids, they'll take it as a challenge to drive you batshit listening to whatever you criticized ad nauseum.

Now that they're older I do sometimes say "that's not for me" but never outright say "that sucks".

My 16-year-old is a serious music dude, his 12-year-old brother much less. The older one in the past year (all without my prompting) has discovered and/or explored Swans (his current favorite), the entirety of the Phil Elverum catalog (Microphones/Mt. Eerie/related acts), Arca, Talking Heads (particularly Remain in Light), Car Seat Headrest, Xiu Xiu, Slint, Death Grips, Merzbow, Lightning Bolt and others. I like riding in the car with him these days just to see what he puts on.

The 12-year-old pretty much only listens to songs from anime soundtracks, along with a small eccentric list of artists he's decided he likes: Kero Kero Bonito (which is a lot like anime music), Ray Charles and Queen.

Oh, and both kids like Gorillaz.

mk1 (24) : giant swan.
mk2 (17) : chase & status

― mark e, Saturday, January 2, 2021 3:08 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf that Giant Swan record from 2019 was quite good.