dd and grime - grrr

[oliviaskies]

16 year old DD. All she bloody listens to is grime. It's awful. Always going on about 'Aitch' and Stormzy. I know she's free to have her own taste in music, but please tell me they grow out of this!!

I think they're mostly genetically programmed at that age to like whatever music their parents are going to hate.

I know I was.
Have you tried being enthusiastic about it in case that puts her right off, or is it too late for that?

gettinglikemymother I'm scared that would just completely backfire, and then she'd be playing it out loud around the house! She's having a party Saturday night, dreading to think about the racket 'tunes' she's going to be playing.

I thought this was going to be a post about a none showering teen.

LordNibbler Not with mine! I struggle to get her out of the shower or bath!

@LordNibbler me too!

I have no idea what grime is (other than the dirt sort) but have a dd who is constantly waffling away about Billie Eilish or Taylor Swift 🙈

My 14 year old DS is the same. It’s like listening to someone shout to the tune of a washing machine 😂 I don’t know how he can tell the difference between different songs (and I’m only 32 myself, I sound like my mother😂)

Her tastes will broaden and change as she hears more music and meets new people, just like it's probably developed from teeny bopper pop shite when she was five.

I heartily recommend Alpine professional ear filters - twenty quid from Amazon - as they cut out the most trying frequencies and reduce it all to a slightly less than agonising ooooffff, rather than DOOF DOOF SHOUT SHOUT + shitty generic beats track.

Think of your fortune - you only get one child like it. I've marked an entire class worth of 14 year old Drill fans' compositions in one go. And, despite my natural distaste and horror, there are still musical elements to the tracks. I still get them composing other stuff by the age of 16, though - we've had some great classical pieces, some musical theatre, some EDM and an absolutely cracking Disco track from kids who initially thought music was all about shouting in a high pitched voice about stabbing enemies, at top volume, over somebody else's beats and a few shitty D minor chords. Our 'I'm a Hardman Roadman Gangsta Fam' from 2015 has inexplicably found he loves Jazz and another now makes girls swoon over his delicate renditions of Debussy. And despite the punk rock appearance, I'm a classical singer on the side with a particular love of Renaissance Polyphony - which I found out I share with a Stoner Psychedelic Rocker mate of mine.

But the intervening period before tastes develop is bloody hard work at times. Hence the blessed filters.

Buy them. You won't be disappointed.

I am sure my parents hated my music - I would imagine that music we liked, our parents hated. I am sure some grandparents as well got grief from their parents about what they listened to.

Grime isn't particularly my thing or rap come to that but as I listen to punk and Metal I cannot really comment can I???? Not a parent but my idea of hell would be a Country and Western or boy band loving offspring!!!

Ok, so my 20 year led son is into heavy American rap / grime, he won’t listen to any British rap / grime artists, says they are crap (it all sounds crap to me) but my 16 year old daughter listens to a very eclectic mix, every genre going (apart from grime) from the 70s until present day.

Rock or indie for me preferably, which my daughter loves too, although her latest thing is Elton John due to the film being released!

deathray Definitely got through the boyband phase (May have enjoyed the multiple One Direction concerts a tiny bit too much - oops!). At least I understood what they were saying!

I personally play Within Temptation on loud whenever my neighbours start their drill up. Works a treat for me