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Originally Posted by viewtiful_alan
Soulja boy doesn't piss off parents as much as it just annoys them because it is genuinley awful shit, its not making parents angry because they don't understand it, its making them mad because its repetitive and fucking annoying.
Bad music is bad music, what age you are doesn't make it good...
Why should I listen to regrettable music?
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The thing is, parents since the invention of the teenager (which is a 20th-Century phenomenon, to a degree) have always dismissed what the kids like as 'repetitive' and 'annoying'. It's really splitting hairs to suggest that there's some sort of 'quality' to youth music. I'm not saying there inherently is or isn't any sense of quality, but kids will enjoy what kids want to enjoy.
When Cliff Richard first came on the pop scene, he was considered rebellious. Early Jazz wasn't understood by a great many of the older generation. 80s rave culture was often dismissed as 'repetitive nonsense' by parents. My parents still think hip-hop is a load of shouting. Elvis wasn't approved of for his hip-shaking. It doesn't really matter about the music itself, what's important to young people's music is that it seperates this generation from that.
This isn't an absolute separation, obviously - the idea of a (particular) individual teenager or parent who fulfills the stereotype entirely is a phantom.
Actually, maybe I should address the parents of this board. Would they agree with me that their kids listen to music that leaves them cold/ aggravates them?
Oh, and to the above - without having paid any attention to your tastes, I'm entirely certain that you listen to music, probably a majority of it, that I (and doubtless a few others on this board) think is 'genuinely shit'.