To not listen to modern music?

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DH and I love 70s, 80s, 90s and rock music. We rarely listen to anything else. Our DC consequently enjoy listening and dancing to our taste of music but also do get exposed to more modern stuff through TV etc. We do listen to music sound tracks of their favourite films (think Madagascar, Sing, Trolls etc) and they have their own spotify playlists.

We went to a birthday party today and I'm ashamed to admit I barely recognised anything (apparently Taylor swift, George ezra and others I don't recall). The DC (6 and 3) loved it regardless of the music but their friends seemed to know the songs better.

AIBU to continue to keep my radio tuned to Magic and Smooth only?? Or will I risk turning them into pop culture pariahs at school?

I.think.you eill.find as they get older they will.develop their own taste in music, i.have always liked rock music , as does eh ,d's nearly 13 doesn't really ,and does like George Ezra etc .

Listen to whatever you like. I was brought up on old fashioned music, my parents hated anything modern. I've grown up with a really varied taste in music and like a bit of everything from all era's, so it never did me any harm.

I have no idea who Katy Perry is. Or little mix. The other parents think we live in time warp. With Jon Bon Jovi.

I dont want the DC to blame us at any point for not introducing them to modern music so they have one less thing to talk about with their friends

Dh and I listen to heavy metal/grunge/punk music.
None of our dc like our music, they all like pop music.

I have to admit, my parents didn't listen to music at all really, apart from the odd classical piece, and it did make me feel left out amongst friends. By the time I was at secondary school it didn't really matter because I had the radio etc and could listen to the top 40 myself but I definitely remember feeling left out that I didn't know anything modern before that.

That's all I listen to aswell OP especially in the car. My kids love it lol.

Why would they blame ,you I don't recall my parents introducing me to rock music ,They will like what they like

I’m lolling at the idea that nineties music isn’t modern music 😂💛

Listen to what you like. Kids will like what they like. It’s usually not until early teen years most kids take a keen independent interest in what sort of music they’re into anyway.

I don't think people are exposed to the range of music that people of my generation heard when we were growing up, when our main source of music was the'wireless'. The BBC request programmes catered for all tastes and the only dedicated music programme was the Third Programme which played classical music.

I don't think parents are meant to introduce DC to chart music! Your DC are very young! They will find their own style when they start listening to the radio themselves.
I grew up on '70s folk, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, Simon & Garfunkel etc... I listened to other stuff - up to date chart music (1980s 🤩) with my friends when I was older than yours are now.

My parents only ever listened to Radios 3 and 4 and I did feel left out by not being able to sing along to the chart hits at school. I probably couldn't name a UK number 1 from the last decade now, but we do listen to pop radio when in the car (short-ish journeys only) so that they have an idea of what current music sounds like as I am aware that they can only develop their own tastes if they are exposed to a variety of styles.

You listen to who you like. I don't even know why you put a post . Some people don't know Mozart, some don't know Korn there is no right or wrong.

Oh listens to nothing but black metal. I like 80s and 90s and a bit of grunge. All my kids have completely different music taste. Eldest into K-Pop, son into modern (21 pilots) daughter loves pop, they all came to their choices in their own way. If your kids see you dance and sing to ANY music I think it’s lovely and sparks a relationship with music anyway which they can explore on their own as they get older. Also, I wish I had never heard of Katy Perry

I only ever listen to music from the 70s,80s and 90s! Thankfully,it rubbed off on my DD,who's now 37 and likes a lot of the same stuff as me. My DGD however,is a different story. She's nearly 14 and is in love with the Korean pop music scene,especially BTS!

I wouldn’t worry. They’ll develop their own tastes as they get older. They have their own Spotify accounts so they can choose what they like.

It won’t do them any harm to listen to older music.

No children myself, but I have 2 late teen+ nephews who don't seem to be "into music". It was such a massive part of "who you were", so to speak, in my world growing up circa 70's/80's. Has that changed now?

A lot of modern successful music is bland AF and only salvaged by very expensive and extensive production or exists as a result of deals across different management's - just see how many singles in the top 50 are somebody featuring somebody else. There are amazing bands and artists who slip under the radar across all genres - check out BBC 6 music, Spotify playlist and festival playlists

My DS(9) likes BBC 6 best on the radio which suits me fine. He’s just got into a bit of EDM through DJ Marshmello (via Fortnite) which I quite like. But I keep boring him about Daft Punk and old bands like that. I found myself playing No Limits by 2Unlimited at him today as a new song he was listening to reminded me of it. I think I’m probably coming across as pretty tragic

When your dc are teens, they won't listen to what you introduce them to anyway, however "down with the youth" you try to be. Listen to what you want.

However YABU to presume that because anything was written this Century it is rubbish. Like every single decade in the last 70 years at least, there have been hundreds of brilliant songs and thousands of crap ones. I happen to be watching one of those BBC4 'archives' programmes as I type, about British Rock from the 1970s, and am fast forwarding over a lot of it to find the good tracks.
I've got a few CDs in my car of 'Classic hits from the 80s' type genre, and, again, there are some great tracks, but also some pretty dire stuff. The same applies to music written this year, last year, 5 years ago, 10 years ago.

50s/60s/70s and some 80s. My children all have Beatles names and they don't listen to anything modern either. My dd9 is massive into Dolly Parton and my ds15 loves Eagles, Morrisey, stones, madness, guns n roses, green day, Beatles. He's at a gig twice a month easily.

I thought that was how it was meant to work! How many people find new music - especially new music STYLES - to listen to after say, their 20s? Your parents listen to the old fogey music from their youth that is 20+ years old, and then you find your stuff, that is totally different. And then you stick to it for decades. Just like people's fashion sense.

I grew up in the late 70s/early 80s with my parents listening to Simon & Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Elvis etc. I developed my own tastes (with parents moaning about 'what's this nonsense? Where's the tune? Don't they play instruments?' at whatever was on Top of the Pops then) and it was different to my parents.

To add - I didn't appreciate my parents' taste in music until much later. But my music is now mostly 'old' stuff - I hear very little current music and don't like a lot of what I do hear. I hear myself saying the same things my parents said - 'but where's the tune? How can they be a band if they don't have instruments?' and all that.

There has been no decent music this decade.

No one will be playing ‘back to the 10s’ music in 50 years!

Your taste is much better.

I dont listen to any "pop" music at all, yet my dc knows all about it. I listen to what I like, if she doesn't, she can find her own stuff. At the moment, she expresses interest in what I'm into, but it certainly doesn't stop her listening to Nas or the jonas brothers...