Do today's high school students like Nirvana?

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

Like everyone in my high school loved Nirvana just like basically every graduating class from circa ~1992 onward. But it seems teenagers today don't like rock music at all...so is Nirvana popular with kids in high school today or do they consider them "old people music" or whatever? I don't have enough interaction with contemporary high schoolers to know.

[Consuming is good, it's what we're made for]

Definitely popular with the edgy kids who think "sucking the warts off her anus" is poetic genius, actually

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

Definitely popular with the edgy kids who think "sucking the warts off her anus" is poetic genius, actually

A lot of their teachers and parents are Nirvana fans. Anything that teachers and parents like can not be seen as edgy to a teenager.

[Consuming is good, it's what we're made for]

Definitely popular with the edgy kids who think "sucking the warts off her anus" is poetic genius, actually

A lot of their teachers and parents are Nirvana fans. Anything that teachers and parents like can not be seen as edgy to a teenager.

Oh, honey...

[DINGO Joe]

I hear today that the kids are into Neil Sedaka.

[Mr. Smith]

They don't.

[|˶˙ᵕ˙ )ﾉﾞ]

With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino, a BRTD, my libido
Yeah, hey

[darklordoftech]

Some do, some don’t, just like some like rap and some don’t, some like country and some don’t.

[Progressive Pessimist]

My sister considers Kurt Cobain one of her idols, and that started when she was in high school. So, I guess they still have their appeal to today's youth.

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

My sister considers Kurt Cobain one of her idols, and that started when she was in high school. So, I guess they still have their appeal to today's youth.

Idolizing Kurt Cobain is weird. Yes he was an incredibly talented musician and songwriter but as a person he was very messed up and that's exactly why he's no longer alive. It's a mystery why anyone would want to be like him.

[Tokugawa Sexgod Ieyasu]

More do than one might expect.

[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

I was surprised when these girls opened for New Found Glory, i thought basically NO teenage girls today liked this type of music.

[Consuming is good, it's what we're made for]

I was surprised when these girls opened for New Found Glory, i thought basically NO teenage girls today liked this type of music.

Shows how little you know about teenage girls. Which is...good, I guess?

[Wiggle Your Yummy Moist Preggers Cake Ben Shapiro]

There probably are a few. If they listen to the rock stations, then certainly.

I don't know if there is a backlash against popular music today like there was in the 2000's, though. That was part of the reason why younger people liked them (along with various other older bands that made music when they either were very young or not alive yet)

[Progressive Pessimist]

My sister considers Kurt Cobain one of her idols, and that started when she was in high school. So, I guess they still have their appeal to today's youth.

Idolizing Kurt Cobain is weird. Yes he was an incredibly talented musician and songwriter but as a person he was very messed up and that's exactly why he's no longer alive. It's a mystery why anyone would want to be like him.

I think the attraction is more about the idea of him-someone who was rebellious and anti-establishment. That was his appeal in the 1990's and I suppose that it remains his legacy, even to newer generations.

[Wazza]

I did when I was in HS and that was 2 years ago.

[We Live in Black and White]

My answer: I am not nearly old enough to comment upon the tastes of them darn kids.

[dead0man]

yes, some.  The state of currently produced music is garbage and only intended for teenage girls (who've always had sh**t taste in music*) and morons trying to impress teenage girls by liking the stupid things they like so as to get in their pants.  So of course young people with taste are going to dig into their father's CD collection and find some gems.  All my kids (age range of 17-25) listen to good music, oddly better than the wife.  She used to listen to good music, but now much of it sounds like a "sexy baby" singing.  My kids are listening to Aerosmith, David Bowie and Nirvana, my wife is listening to Rihana (I don't care how to spell it, you know who I'm talking about).



*not ALL of them, some girls have taste in music.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I imagine more of them are Buddhist today than in earlier times.

[AN63093]

I doubt most high schoolers even know who they are.  I remember the first time I heard Nirvana on a "classic rock" radio station, and even that was years ago now.  Maybe there are some teens that are trying to be contrarian by listening to things their parents did, so they can appear to be different or "ironic" or whatever.  When I was in high school, I knew some kids that did the same thing with music released back in the 60s and so on.

The truth is that rock as musical form (and in particular, rock bands of actual musicians that release music centered around an album-based model) is dead and has been for quite some time.  Popular and mainstream music has reverted back to a pre Beatles model, i.e., individual artists (who are not actual musicians that play instruments) releasing music on a single-based model, those singles professionally produced by other people, etc.  To be fair, that model existed after the 60s too, but now it is probably close to 100% of all new music.  The last band (not a solo artist) to have an album exceed 10 million in sales in the US was Linkin Park in 2000 (Hybrid Theory).  No one has exceeded that since, although if we include worldwide sales, I believe Coldplay was the last to hit 10 million with Viva la Vida (2008).  That was the last time, over 10 years ago.. I don't know if anyone is coming close since, but I sorta doubt it, since music isn't produced or released that way anymore.

[Skunk]

Nirvana T-shirts, yeah.

[Wiggle Your Yummy Moist Preggers Cake Ben Shapiro]

Of course, I don't think anyone listens to the other Nirvana. (The 60's British band and Kurt and co. didn't know about.)

[Morgan Kingsley]

People I went to high school with 3 years ago only really cared for the popular hits

[Kleine Scheiße]

Plenty of people are into the main hits, just like most people are with music generally. Most people at that age use music as a sociocultural bonding tool rather than something to enjoy independently.

I got constant s**t in school (graduated high school in 2015) for listening to "old people music," which seemed to mean just about anything from beyond the past three years. I'm generally focused on the 70s but there's a lot I like from the medieval period to today.

I actually knew someone who flat-out stopped listening to Lorde because he found out "Swingin' Party" was a cover of a Replacements song, which made her "old." There seemed to be a persistent, all-encompassing resistance for its own sake to anything adults were into or involved with (politics, music older than a few years, etc.) which everyone I went to K12 with, now that I've graduated college, seem to be finally discovering was totally stupid.

Of course, I don't think anyone listens to the other Nirvana. (The 60's British band and Kurt and co. didn't know about.)

Nonsense, Simon Simopath is gorgeous.

The truth is that rock as musical form (and in particular, rock bands of actual musicians that release music centered around an album-based model) is dead and has been for quite some time.  Popular and mainstream music has reverted back to a pre Beatles model, i.e., individual artists (who are not actual musicians that play instruments) releasing music on a single-based model, those singles professionally produced by other people, etc.  To be fair, that model existed after the 60s too, but now it is probably close to 100% of all new music.  The last band (not a solo artist) to have an album exceed 10 million in sales in the US was Linkin Park in 2000 (Hybrid Theory).  No one has exceeded that since, although if we include worldwide sales, I believe Coldplay was the last to hit 10 million with Viva la Vida (2008).  That was the last time, over 10 years ago.. I don't know if anyone is coming close since, but I sorta doubt it, since music isn't produced or released that way anymore.

To be honest, I would argue this started happening the second Reagan was elected. A lot of good music came out of the 1980s but comparatively little survived it.

[Meclazine for Israel]

High school aged members of our society have a huge catalogue of popular music to choose from.

The genius of Kurt Cobain is not going anywhere in a hurry.

His songwriting talents were extraordinary.