What are your kids listening to in 2021?

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.