Why are the all kids wearing Nirvana t shirts?

[TheWelshposter]

I'm seeing them everywhere, usually in bright pink and purple and acid colours. Are the kids listening to Nirvana now or do they think it's the name of a fashion brand?

My kids think I'm extremely cook for having tickets to see nirvana (the gig that didn't happen but I kept the ticket!)

At least I finally an dressing up to date!

It's probably the 90s parents who buy them for their pre-teens feeling nostalgic, rather than the kids themselves being fans. My brother was a massive Nirvana fan, I would imagine he'd buy his girls the T-shirts if he saw them out and about.

The 90s were the dogs bollocks! 😎

Oh and when I went to the foo fighters last what was really cool was 3 generations of some families!

They will after listening to the new killers track

Why are music snobs the worst?
I used to have a "Taxi Driver" hoodie and no film snob ever freaked out at me, asking how could I have possibly heard of let alone seen a film that came out 20 years before I was born?

"Opportunities" by the Pet Shop Boys was No 1 in America last year after it was used in a commercial. A lot of the YouTube comments saying they love the song are from teenagers.

(To be clear, I'm not calling op a music snob.)

The 90’s really was brilliant, great music, even gigs weren’t expensive, cheap attainable housing, careers without degrees, opportunity everywhere, if you fucked up there was another opportunity coming, real optimism and hope. It was a great time to be a teenager.

mine are into green day, good riddance was the anthem of my teens, it makes me well up whenever I hear it now with them and what I hope for them.

Spotify makes all genre's of music available to all, my DS12 loves Queen, The Beatles, AC/DC, David Bowie and Nirvana amongst lots of others. And wears his Queen T-Shirt constantly.
I think it's fabulous and much better than some of the drivel in the charts today

Because Dave Grhol and the Foo Fighters are popular. Kids google DG see he was in Nirvana, check out the songs Nirvana played and there you go....whole new fanbase.

Dave Grohl..sorry for the typo

My young adult stepdaughter was wearing a Nirvana t shirt at the weekend. I said I was surprised she liked their music and she said oh I just liked the colours - had no idea the word had any reference to a band. It was their album cover.

I have kept and worn almost all of my band shirts daily since the mid 80's. It's taken a while but finally I'm cool again!

As for babies in band shirts, why not? I recall DD being utterly transfixed with the Smashing Pumpkins when she was about 18 months old. She loved the Adore album and would bring the tape and point at the player for me to put on Ava Adore. She'd then bop around the living room to the beat. I could imagine she would have been thrilled to have had a shirt because she certainly knew the logo's.

Both of mine grew up on 70/80's and 90's rock. We still go to gigs together. In turn they introduced me to newer bands as well.

I don't think 'gatekeeping' is productive really. If selling shirts gets a few of the new generation listening then why not.

I would have thought kids would think of FF as a bit of a ‘Dad band’ at least as they are now.

FB keeps trying to sell me a Nirvana tee shirt (I'm 52 and a half). I'm VERY tempted as the picture, beneath the band name is nit Cobain but Owen Wilson. That's some proper Gen X trolling right there 🤣

Can you imagine walking past a die hard Nirvana fan in that? 😂

That one always amuses me.

LOL! That's good.

I like this one too:

Mine have been brought up on the same music as you mention. Typically though my eldest doesn't like it and much prefers dance music. But my youngest is a mini me when it comes to music.

Got his first band t-shirt when he was 5/6 (guns n roses) and it was his prized possession as he loved listening to them. Still does at almost 13. Queen is also a favourite.

I took him to his first gig this year which he just loved. He also then really got into the support acts music too.

I can see him getting me into bands as time goes on as our taste is so similar.

Shows like stranger things etc have introduced them to 80's music too.

Music really invokes memories for me. A song I've not heard for years can take me back. Even songs/artists I don't like.

Snort

Because Zara, H&M, Boohoo and PrettyLittleThing are all stocking pink and purple Nirvana T-shirts right now

I am one and marrying one. Would quite like to go to a gig wearing it though. Just for badness.

Want that one @Taketheweather too!

I’ve just lost the afternoon to the lullabyes on YouTube getting the kids to guess the song.
brilliant

My children are being raised on an eclectic selection of music as DH and I have very different tastes in music.

From my end it's rock such as Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Aerosmith and Meatloaf mixed in with Queen, Elton John and a whole hodgepodge of 90s including specific songs by certain artists (Stay by Shakespeares Sister is a case in point).

DH is all about dance so the Prodigy, Pendulum and the like. DH regularly plays them Friday Night Kiss with Majestic.

Though I will concede that Sandstorm by Darude is an absolute belter and brings back many fond memories of excellent nights out.

They were once rockers, but sadly the little traitors are shifting toward dance. Though DS2 studied the Beatles in music at school just before the summer. He loved the songs. Doesn't get it from me, I was never a big Beatles fan. Nor, and this will get me kicked off the thread no doubt, did I particularly like Nirvana. Feel like if I started now, I'd be a just like all the teens just getting into them.

@RhubarbFairy , I'm with you. Only nirvana song I liked was heart shape box.
I'm a big Alice in chains fan. No body seems to of heard of them and don't know why.
Loved the Seattle grunge scene

Now is where I actually admit to going to see ugly kid Joe at Manchester poly