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Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

benpaco — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 19:26:45 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 04/01/2014 23:26

lethalnezzle wrote:

the world hasn't gone to shit. Teenagers have always been obnoxious fuckers who think they know everything, and have always loved to pigeonhole those peers of theirs who don't dress like them and listen to exactly what they listen to. So they have iPhones and now this generation's teenagers are more obnoxious than the last? Fuck that shit. Being obnoxious and judging everybody else is part of being a teenager.

I agree with this from what little I've seen, but you know, I think the problem is we're passively obnoxious. We don't even leave our houses to whine.

Also if you think your statement was hypocritical, just think about the above for a second.

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 19:10:31 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/01/2014 23:10

Glad lethal did the substantive pouncing so that I can just follow up and say that that is surely not EDM in its purest form and that the weird equivalence old (minded?) people make between "these yungins" and "the bleepity bloops" betrays a pretty substantive history based in resistance to the hateful pitfalls of capitalist society. Electronic dance music, to take the term literally (and to make about as much differentiation between it and electronic as a whole as its detractors choose to, which is to say, none), has serviced queer liberation, black power, and lower-class access to music production in ways capitalism can't help but eventually recuperate for its own insidious ends; ergo Deadmau5. And even if its current PLUR incarnation is a little bit pedestrian musically and a lotta bit commercialized, it's no more off-the-mark than Woodstock-era hippies were and there are surely still incredibly aesthetically important artists working within EDM and more rooted electronic subgenres.

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

rayword45 — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 18:39:07 GMT

Author: rayword45

Posted: 04/01/2014 22:39

Actually, if you do your project with nothing but Lil B songs, I think that would be very representative of our generation.

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 16:14:19 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/01/2014 20:14

meruizh wrote:

It's now that hipsters, emo and all kinds of labels are part of our popular culture.

Yeah, it's not as though every generation has had its own scenes defined by constricting labels (teddy boys, rockers, mods, hippies, teeny-boppers, punks, goths, new romantics, baggy, I could go on all fucking night). Let's just have some perspective here, the world hasn't gone to shit. Teenagers have always been obnoxious fuckers who think they know everything, and have always loved to pigeonhole those peers of theirs who don't dress like them and listen to exactly what they listen to. So they have iPhones and now this generation's teenagers are more obnoxious than the last? Fuck that shit. Being obnoxious and judging everybody else is part of being a teenager. Embrace it, preferably sans cynicism.

EDIT: Alas, that final sentence was hella hypocritical. But I vouch for the rest of it.

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

meruizh — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 16:08:21 GMT

Author: meruizh

Posted: 04/01/2014 20:08

I agree completely with Benpaco, if there's one song that defines today's teens is this one

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And for many reasons. The lack of depth in today's people interest is represented by a superficial society that has been for many decades a battle for looks and impressions. It's now that hipsters, emo and all kinds of labels are part of our popular culture. And as far as the music, EDM has become the new sensation, the new popular music every kid wants. It's cool to like EDM and well this song is ... EDM in it's purest form.

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 14:43:29 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/01/2014 18:43

I have no idea what "today's teen culture" entails, but these three songs pretty much sum up my teen years:

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Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

camsh — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 14:34:58 GMT

Author: camsh

Posted: 04/01/2014 18:34

Precedent wrote:

Hipsters:

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Over in dear old Blighty, Bastille are quite the popular band, so I can imagine American hipsters perhaps liking them...

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

WindowAbove — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:45:00 GMT

Author: WindowAbove

Posted: 04/01/2014 15:45

At least where i go to school:

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is a song that kids seem to consider their anthem[/youtube]

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:40:40 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/01/2014 15:40

Boogn1sh wrote:

Agree 100%, I'm a big Lil B supporter, and I don't think our comments are mutually exclusive

😄 glad we're on the same page!

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

Boogn1sh — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:34:21 GMT

Author: Boogn1sh

Posted: 04/01/2014 15:34

satiemaniac wrote:

endlessly self-reflexive; evolving; contemplative in the most idiosyncratic ways; incredibly self-critical and willing to engage with discourses like feminism, even if they are in formally imperfect ways; willing to have fucking fun... yeah, i hope that this generation can live up to half of Lil B's ethos

Agree 100%, I'm a big Lil B supporter, and I don't think our comments are mutually exclusive

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:42:02 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/01/2014 14:42

Boogn1sh wrote:

Hah not being sarcastic either, I think Lil B is a pretty representative of the ethos of the modern teenager. Quantity over quality, repetitious, exaggerated egos, stream of conscious > thought-out arguments...basically the internet

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:34:28 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/01/2014 14:34

I'm listening to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah right now so let me contribute with this.

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Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

Hayden — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:25:21 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 04/01/2014 14:25

Speaking as a teenager, probably something by Sigur Ros or Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Actually, anything post rock really.

Or.. that Japandroids song is pretty good too. 😁

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

Boogn1sh — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:07:38 GMT

Author: Boogn1sh

Posted: 04/01/2014 14:07

Any song off this mixtape

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http://www.datpiff.com/Lil-B-The-BasedGod-05-Fuck-Em-mixtape.563777.html
Hah not being sarcastic either, I think Lil B is a pretty representative of the ethos of the modern teenager. Quantity over quality, repetitious, exaggerated egos, stream of conscious > thought-out arguments...basically the internet

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:27:15 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/01/2014 13:27

Dang nabbit, kids today. If there was a song called Wasting My Life on that PictureFace internets site and Waking Up Us Good, Proud, God-Fearing Americans with Loud Hippity-Hop, that would sum up the youth today. Growl, growl, growl

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:19:25 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/01/2014 13:19

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How did this slip my mind?

Arguably the anthem for the <25

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

lolyoulikeoasis7 — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 04:54:58 GMT

Author: lolyoulikeoasis7

Posted: 04/01/2014 08:54

rayword swooping in to provide some balence to counter all of the pillowbiting posts on the first page, everyone in a 30 mile radius should thank him

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

benpaco — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 02:59:44 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 04/01/2014 06:59

rayword45 wrote:

If your town is overly affluent and predominantly white, I can't help you much.

Here's from a more mixed culture perspective.

Nah, that's helpful nonetheless.I don't think I can use that stuff, unfortunately - gotta get 5 other kids to agree it's representative of us, and they didn't even get why anything by Kanye or Gambino could represent our generation (I hate this town so much you have no idea). For me, personally, though, it's interesting to see, as I've only heard the last two of those.

Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

rayword45 — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 02:29:11 GMT

Author: rayword45

Posted: 04/01/2014 06:29

If your town is overly affluent and predominantly white, I can't help you much.

Here's from a more mixed culture perspective.

This is what everyone looks like attempting to impress others (horrible freestyles, horrible dances, and... well listen)

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This video shows what parties are like, if this video had more people and casual sex. Frankly, this could be just about any A Zae music video but this one is the funniest.

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This song could describe a lot of arguments in school. The majority I'd say. The rest are dumbass arguments about douchebag guys or basket case girls starting shit on Twitter over relationships.

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If you replace acid with weed the Kawasaki with "more drugs and pussy" then this has happened more than once.

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And of course, all teenagers are stressed. I only chose this song cause of the title. This one is highly changeable, I would put some Jesus Lizard here myself.

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Re: Songs That Best Sum Up Today's Teen Culture

benpaco — Tue, 1 Apr 2014 00:56:19 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 04/01/2014 04:56

Jjjoniee wrote:

Glad to help. By the way, that's a really cool assignment. If I may ask, what class is it for? Never really gotten an assignment like that before.

Oh alright, that's where my dad went to hs. And it's for history, he's a pretty chill teacher, instead of a 50s unit we did an overlying cold war unit and are now doing a James Dean and Elvis unit.