A middle school student just tried to tell me “guns and roses” was “country music”
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@mfennvt No just complaining about how their dad “listens to country music”
@futurebird @mfennvt so basically code for "oldies", but I think that's an established genre so they have to keep coming up for new names for "music from 20+ years ago" and maybe they aren't sticking, so the youth is coming up with their own names.
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A middle school student just tried to tell me “guns and roses” was “country music”
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@futurebird it kinda makes sense that kids would think that, as the current musical landscape doesn't really have traditional blue collar guitar-driven rock-- that space has been increasingly occupied by country. They might see all of rock as country sub-genres
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@timjan I have to know please… I need to understand this kid and this could help.
@futurebird
As a middle aged European-turned-Californian, whose only connection to NYC so far has been a 3 day visit in ... 2012? ... I'm not sure I'm in any way representative...But for some reason, and I had never had any reason to bother to look it up, I always assumed that they were Australian.
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@futurebird @mfennvt so basically code for "oldies", but I think that's an established genre so they have to keep coming up for new names for "music from 20+ years ago" and maybe they aren't sticking, so the youth is coming up with their own names.
Not exactly. They know Michael Jackson isn’t “country” or “Led Zeppelin” for that matter and those are “oldies” This is something more convoluted— I think it’s the bandanna.
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@futurebird
As a middle aged European-turned-Californian, whose only connection to NYC so far has been a 3 day visit in ... 2012? ... I'm not sure I'm in any way representative...But for some reason, and I had never had any reason to bother to look it up, I always assumed that they were Australian.
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@futurebird it kinda makes sense that kids would think that, as the current musical landscape doesn't really have traditional blue collar guitar-driven rock-- that space has been increasingly occupied by country. They might see all of rock as country sub-genres
Ah yes. My favorite honky tonk county band …. Rush.
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A middle school student just tried to tell me “guns and roses” was “country music”
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@futurebird my adult child once heard REM and said “what in the yeehaw is this hillbilly music?” And I was like how dare you
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Ah yes. My favorite honky tonk county band …. Rush.
Honestly I could go for a revival of Hair Bands and Prog Rock — where are the guitar solos???
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Ah yes. My favorite honky tonk county band …. Rush.
@futurebird @aethernaut I’ll be honest, I kinda lump Rush, Lynyrd Skinnard, and Guns and Roses in a mental bucket that is certainly adjacent to country.
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@futurebird @aethernaut I’ll be honest, I kinda lump Rush, Lynyrd Skinnard, and Guns and Roses in a mental bucket that is certainly adjacent to country.
But Rush are innocent Canadians!!
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they are from LA!
but the kid was like “yeah out west”
The theory is if there is a guitar and it’s “from out west” then it’s “country”
NYC children concern me sometimes.
@futurebird Rage Against the Machine comes to mind
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@futurebird Rage Against the Machine comes to mind
@BLTpizza Oh Rage is hip hop everyone knows that.
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they are from LA!
but the kid was like “yeah out west”
The theory is if there is a guitar and it’s “from out west” then it’s “country”
NYC children concern me sometimes.
@futurebird But… Look—I'm from Texas and love to use that as a basis to joke about the rest of the country being less important—but… like 90% of the US is west of NYC? Is midwest Emo also country?? Is a punk band from Jersey also country???
Wild.
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@futurebird But… Look—I'm from Texas and love to use that as a basis to joke about the rest of the country being less important—but… like 90% of the US is west of NYC? Is midwest Emo also country?? Is a punk band from Jersey also country???
Wild.
Country music artist Bruce Springsteen.
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@futurebird my adult child once heard REM and said “what in the yeehaw is this hillbilly music?” And I was like how dare you
I mean... I'm from then so I get it but it is kinda yee haw isn't it?
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they are from LA!
but the kid was like “yeah out west”
The theory is if there is a guitar and it’s “from out west” then it’s “country”
NYC children concern me sometimes.
@futurebird
I’m actually curious: did they just mean “white people music”? or maybe more specifically what they think of as “poor white people music”?Is Insane Clown Posse “country”?
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@futurebird
I’m actually curious: did they just mean “white people music”? or maybe more specifically what they think of as “poor white people music”?Is Insane Clown Posse “country”?
But Black folks love GNR. Always.
But also I don't think it's that simple? Or rather I think it's more simple, they saw bandanas and heard a ballad and thought "this is country"
