Are my kids unusual in listening to this music?

[AInightingale]

Just wondering last night whether teenagers nowadays have their own pop music culture anymore. I was upstairs and my 12 year old was listening to Kate Bush - streaming the Red Shoes album which I remember having as a CD when I was about 22, he got into Kate via the re-release of Running Up That Hill last year - my 14 year old was downstairs listening to the Pogues and had been playing Eurhythmics songs earlier in the day. In a way it's great, and I remember being really into the Beatles and older David Bowie at their age, which predated me, but I'm just puzzled as to why they don't listen to contemporary stuff. Is it really so crap, or are they just slightly unusual?

It's Bowie, Fleetwood mac, oasis, Kings of Leon, madness etc etc in our house. I personally don't listen to chart music as it's all a load of crap. So the kids have a varied CD collection of ours to listen to and they much prefer it. My 6yo favourite album is the Beverley Hills soundtrack!
Old music is so much better than anything released today.

I think it's much more splintered these days, with different charts for different genres. I assume there must be one for the overall most downloaded song, but it doesn't seem to have the prominence it did in my youth - my mum, for instance, would have been able to tell you what was number one that week in the 80s - the last time I'd have had a clue what number one was, would have been in the mid-90s.

anightingale Wham are number one again. Nothings changed in 40 years 😁.

Yes, back in the 80's everyone knew who was number one, to not know was a marker of being an out of touch old fuddy duddy, something politicians and high court judges were laughed at for but now even teens don't seen to know/care.

Not really, actually the other way round, more concerned that they're missing out on brilliant contemporary stuff. Obviously not, nothing seems to be setting the world on fire right now!

Oh, blimey! 😂

I have a colleague who only listens to jazz music and he’s very damning of pop music in particular, I call him Howard Moon. I like jazz music but alongside lots of other genres including pop. Some people think it’s really cool to not like pop music, as if it’s beneath them. Pretentious bastards. Lots of decent pop music, I like 80s and 90s pop in particular.

Your DC aren’t wildly unusual. As a teen I listened to all sorts of music from Ella Fitzgerald through to Bullet for my Valentine. Still do now tbh. My teenage DS likes pop punk as I did at his age so we hear a lot of 00s bands from him like Blink 182 and Bowling for Soup.

Mine listens to The Velvet Underground and The Smiths. She has good taste.

Surly it's because that music is everywhere at the moment!?
Kate Bush = stranger things
The pogues have been all over the news and it's Christmas!?
The Beatles had a number one single ant The stones had a number one album.
These oldies actually couldn't be more current!

You know you're old when Running Up That Hill is still the theme song from 'Running Scared'!

Completely normal.

Just as a teen in the 90s I listened to loads of stuff from the 60s alongside contemporary stuff.

My son(14) isn’t into modern music at all. He loves The Beach Boys, The Beatles, and Elvis.

Completely normal.

If you think about quite a lot of classical music was once modern and popular, but people still play and listen to it today.

I use to sing along as a small child to songs from the 50s and 60s. My DD does the same even though she is only 5.

Dd is 7 and so heavily influenced by my music tastes, but currently her favourites are Louis Tomlinson, Fleetwood and Nirvana (I gave her my old Nirvana shirt from the 90s and now she’s in her ‘grunge-era’ or so she says 😂)

I's be bloody ecstatic if mine listened to the Smiths. There was a cover of 'Stop Me' playing in the shop and they were singing along, so there is hope yet.

Not strange at all modern musics mostly crap and I'm 31. I adore fleetwood mac , Elton , Beatles , Dixie chicks

DD doesn't listen to any new stuff, she thinks it's crap. It's all Nirvana, Bowie, RHCP and Green Day and has been for years (17 now).

Another one whose teens have very very eclectic tastes. We had a 1.5h drive yesterday and our 16yo supplied the playlist (both ways). From memory we had Green Day, A-ha, Nena, Queen, The Smiths, The Cure, Bon Jovi, Madness, Abba, REM, The Killers, Alice Cooper, Avicii, and several current German bands.

Very common. DS 18 is very into 90s stuff, went to see Arctic Monkeys last summer, likes Oasis, etc. Also very into a lot of 70s stuff like Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Bowie.

I think kids listen to a much wider range of music now than we did. Mine certainly do.

Dolly Parton played Glastonbury in the last few years and I was surprised the audience all knew her songs.

I think that teens, or anyone, who live music will find the good stuff from any era. I was a teen in the late 70s and early 80s and we played music from the decade before mainly as a lot of the chart music was disco rubbish.

My 17 year old granddaughter loves The Beatles and Depeche Mode.

Interesting fact for Fleetwood Mac fans - the sexy gasps on 'Big Love' that we used to snigger over in the 80s are both done by the same person (male) but digitally adjusted to sound like a man and woman.

@ALongHardWinter your granddaughter has excellent taste!