From KaisrSolze Sent Sat, Jun 20th 1998, 15:45
From KaisrSolze Sent Sat, Jun 20th 1998, 15:45
>watch a 'backstreet boys' video and consider the audience for >that band They're not stupid, just young... *Condescension will surely make things better*;-)... I go to a school for "smart" folks, and the breakdown of musical tastes almost completely mirrors the general population... In a grade of almost 200, I'm the only one who listens to IDM, we have a jungle obsessive, maybe 7 kids who are deep into "underground hiphop" (this is in NY, so it makes sense), a goth type, there are some others who listen to "underground/intellectual" stuff.... And then plenty who listen to Puffy, Spice Girls, "modern rock", Starship (strange but true). Maybe we have a slightly higher proportion of kids who listen to classical, and fewer ska punks (thank god), but no, smart has very little to do with musical tastes, except to the extent that you take the effort to turn off the radio and look for something else (which most people are smart enough to do, and few people do anyway). Stupid Sam