Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To be this out of touch

78 replies

ValentinCrimble · 08/10/2010 16:59

I keep wondering what the kids are into today...each generation has it's "thing" right? The 70s had disco and punk..the 80s had Goths and New Wave and towards the end they had rave...which went on well into the 90s.

What do they do these days? Confused

I know they have Emo's but does that even have a "scene"? What else is there? What about the whole desperation to be famous thing...which seems to have infected a whole generation...is that now a "Scene" in itself?

Just wondering....some of you must have teens....I don't, mine are little and I am as old as the sea....[ancient face]

OP posts:
pressyourthumbs · 09/10/2010 10:58

What about grime? Or is that, like, so over already?

Original poster
ValentinCrimble · 09/10/2010 11:24

Grime? What on earth is that? People mention chavs and stuff...but that's not something kids are proud to be called is it?

OP posts:
upahill · 09/10/2010 12:13

What? does no one listen to Black Sabbath any more? crikey I can't keep up!

mountainmonkey · 09/10/2010 13:11

Actually yes they do still listen to Black Sabbath...and AC/DC!

usualsuspect · 09/10/2010 13:28

Dubstep and ska/reggae definitely the big music movement at the moment, and scene kids and hipsters

clarabella23 · 09/10/2010 13:30

I've heard a few friends talk about dubstep music...they seem to be the fashionable people, metro men in their blazers and scarves. Can't say I've noticed a club scene for it, tend to be small places, where they have a dedicated night going on.
R N B is still massive, think it will be for a while yet. It is more mainstream RnB now though- pop tunes that can be sung along too.

usualsuspect · 09/10/2010 13:34

'metro men in their blazers and scarves'

known as hipsters by my ds and his mates Grin

Original poster
ValentinCrimble · 09/10/2010 13:38

Metro men and hipsters....do the have some sort of music style though?

OP posts:
usualsuspect · 09/10/2010 13:45

Ds says hipsters listen mainly to indie music anything non mainstream

clarabella23 · 09/10/2010 13:46

Hipsters is a new one to me! As I say, a couple of fellas im friendly with are "hipster" type of people to look at, and they like dubstep, and download quite a bit of music from the internet. It seems to be anything that the mainstream crowd doesn't follow.

Original poster
ValentinCrimble · 09/10/2010 15:27

Gah....they're hardly going to set the world on fire are they?

OP posts:
usualsuspect · 09/10/2010 15:46

no lol

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 09/10/2010 15:52

Emo is goth.

Dubstep is more stripped down garage than speeded up drum and bass (it's generally slower than drum and bass)

But it's a bit of an anything goes producer driven scene now.

Original poster
ValentinCrimble · 09/10/2010 16:48

Downloading music and wearing funny hats and scarves....how rock n roll. Not!

Where are all the rebels? Time for a new and shocking scene....one which will get the BBC out, interviewing the scary, innovative kids...marvelling at their music which should be like nothing we've ever heard before.

OP posts:
sharbie · 09/10/2010 20:17

go on then val if you start it i'll join in Grin

Heracles · 10/10/2010 09:07

It's all rather splintered currently, a direct result of people no longer having only a limited amount of outlets "feeding" them their musical choices.

If you want to dance there's dubstep, bloghouse, d'n's is still bubbling along and techno has slowed down and remains massive on the continent. Then there's that whole nu-disco scene and, led bafflingly by the Americans, about a million electro-indie bands.

If guitars are your bag there's a slew of "cores" (mathcore, tech metal, hardcore, sledgecore etc etc), your basic foursquare band affair and then there's the rise and rise of dance/rock hybrids (!!! and so on).

Electric music has its usual heroes: four tet, squarepusher, aphex twin and so on; metal's as gloriously out of time as ever, hip hop continues to be declared dead without seeming to realise it, reggae's recovering from that brief affair with digital unpleasantness and is having fun with reggaeton.

Basically, it's all out there waiting to be discovered; the only genre that's suffering is pop with the usual suspects making a tiny, narrow stable of artists making their rubbish the only game in town. Shame really.

Original poster
ValentinCrimble · 10/10/2010 10:09

I swym Heracles....it all seems very safe and mixed up....when punk or rave appeared they were so shocking...the scenes were new and well formed at the same time....I sense...or hope that something big is coming along soon.

OP posts:
usualsuspect · 10/10/2010 10:38

People seem so scared to let their teenagers be ,well, teenagers these days though,you only have to read the teenage boards on here to know that ..although not sure MN represents the real world Grin

Original poster
ValentinCrimble · 10/10/2010 10:58

Ususalsuspect....My niece is 19....she and her friends are "normal" teens in that they love clothes and music and socialising but they are sooo much more protected and naieve than my friends and I were at that age. They get picked up by their Dad's all the time and seem scared to catch the tube when they go into London for the day...I remember spending whole weekends out clubbing at the same age and not appearing home till Monday....nobody was worried about me even though my parents were very loving.
The world today isn't THAT much different safety-wise than it was 15 years ago when I was young.

I wonder if the net generation...as in my DC's one...will be very conservative...maybe like another Victorian age...after all pre-Victorians people were quite debauched weren't they?

OP posts:
CheerfulYank · 10/10/2010 11:13

I listen to country... I am "like so totally out of it." :o

usualsuspect · 10/10/2010 11:29

My ds loves Japanese visual kei music ..that seems pretty out there to me [old]

Valentine We were the same ,out on Friday nights,back home on Sunday Nights .Any music festival going we were there,no lifts, we caught trains and buses in my day Grin

Original poster
ValentinCrimble · 10/10/2010 11:59

Yes Ususal...never knew how we would be getting back from some club or festival...as long as we could get THERE....well that was fine! They seem very tame today...without going into too much detail Blush we were bloody dangerous!

OP posts:
usualsuspect · 10/10/2010 12:22

If my ds feels strongly about something he just joins a FB group to protest [keyboard warrior] abit like his armchair activist mum really Grin

Original poster
ValentinCrimble · 10/10/2010 14:48

Yes...I suppose the internet does have a lot of power though...so if the kids have enough passsion they can create waves....

OP posts:
musicmadness · 10/10/2010 16:11

Dubstep and R&B are quite big. Emo is similar to goth in a way but there are differences. I don't know - I'm young enough to have a decent idea of what is big but I'm more of an Iron Maiden girl myself Wink