Why don't teens that listen to bands of today like FOB or MCR or Paramore etc. credit the classic bands?

Question

I love The Beatles. Some kids tell me,
"Why do you like them? They're all old and dead."

Answer 1

Trust me, kid..you are LIGHT years ahead of your peers.


Anyway, take comfort knowing you are DEF' not The Only teen who likes the classics. I've met many & plenty right here on Y!A do too.

Ask your peers who do THEY think'll be remembered by most of the human population in another 30 years: FOB or the Beatles?

That'll learn em!

Answer 2

I could care less about the 10 points I'm going to answer this.

Speaking from a teen that likes underground metal and stays away from mainstream music/bands, typical teens nowadays that listen to FOB,MCR,Paramore etc. do not credit the classical bands because what I've seen from experience is that the bands they listen to is clingy and since the majority of teens that listen to these types of bands they are too afraid to be different than the majority. Another reason why they don't credit the bands is that well...teens nowadays see "old people" listening to "old music" and most teens do not want to end up like the "old people" especially in music taste as their past generations. Most teens now listen to MTV and never go past beyond that. Last but not least, most teens just look at the looks in a band now instead of the quality of the music their definition of a good band is "if a band has one hot or cute looking member than the band is good" its sad yes it is. I look for the quality of the music, not the looks, even if all the band members are ugly, but produce good music, it wouldn't matter they're all truly talented in my eyes. Unfortunately, nowadays music has become a fashion show,and most bands work on their image in the mainstream media,rather than the quality of the musicianship.

Answer 3

do no longer subject, you're actually not strange! i think of that's particularly due record agencies leaping on despite trend is going on the 2nd, packaging it in a pretty "mainstream" way it relatively is easy for the senseless hundreds to blindly stick to and then make a great earnings out of all of it! If rock and metallic have been left to stick to that's own course rather of getting used to make earnings, i think of we'd all be listening to lots greater efficient stuff! regrettably, rock and metallic has grow to be the in element because Nirvana killed off each and every of the previous college metallic, and then Nu metallic took over. because then it form of feels to be no longer something yet Emo, Screamo, completely moist rock (or might desire to that be pop bands?) crappy punk bands and bands that look greater interested in their image than their music!! i'm specific the folk you ask who their popular bands are, will in some years time, permit you already know a thoroughly diverse record of bands, simply by fact their musical style might have shifted to despite is widespread at that evaluate time! If it weren't for bands such as Lamb of God, Trivium etc, the entire metallic scene could be f*cked!! yet it relatively is purely my opinion!!

Answer 4

This has bugged me, as well. I agree that some of the newer bands out there are quite good, but if someone told me that FOB (who is one of the better new bands out there, in my opinion) was better than the Beatles, I'd either die of laughter or be in jail for murder. (Of course, the judge & jury would let me go once they heard what the person said...it would be justifiable homicide). :)

I think that anyone who really starts getting into music sees that this happens at every level. For any band out there, there were bands that they listened to growing up that they tried to emulate as they got older. Some bands even get their start as being cover bands for other groups (Live started out as a U2 cover band; Hootie & the Blowfish started out as an R.E.M. cover band).

Hopefully, as some of the younger generation grows up, they'll realize that MCR & FOB didn't invent all music. These bands aren't bad, but their just the tip of the iceberg.

Answer 5

I LOVE MCR, but also- I listen to more "classic" bands. Out of the bands you listed i only like MCR, and Paramore. I respect the Beatles, and I LOVE KISS. Not all teens gone off the edge.

Answer 6

well for one thing i am certainly not liek that! sureim totaly IN LOVE with FOB but i definitally love the beatles too! and my dad grew up with that type of music and so did i so i can basically tell u every classic rock band out there...im deffinitally a classic rock fan too...but my heart still belongs to FOB!

Answer 7

i love classic rock! i think the 70's was the best age of music ever, and rock then was so much better then today, but i still like mcr and fob and some other modern rock bands, but i dont think they compare to there musical forefathers.

Answer 8

Every Generation THINKS that their musical idols are "new and fresh"
(I remember in the 80's every teen thought that the "boy" bands were a new thing,
when in fact they had "boy" (and girl) bands in the 50's

Answer 9

Anyone who says that about the Beatles should be executed. They don't know about the real bands. Listen to Led Zeppelin. They are widely known as one of the best, and also Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix could levitate, you know.

Answer 10

trust me im with you, imyoung an i listen to pink floyd rolling stones the beatles, queen etc. buy mi fav band is mcr so kids just need to stop being carbon copies of the person next to them i mean what happened to individuality.?