And he's mumblin'
And he's screamin'
Cause he can't name
What they're singing!
Let him wear shirts,
They don't wanna.
Even cool bands
Like Nirvana!
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This. Fuck those gatekeepers.
My daughter wore a Motörhead body when she was 6 months old, and couldn't name a single song of theirs. What a fucking poser
You: “Say mama, say dada.”
Her: “Overkill.”
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Then people'll be : no one listens to the good old music any more (after shaming every newcomer away).
I can't even name the bands or titles of songs I regularly listen to. Some of us just listen to music to enjoy it, not to score fact points with music nerds.
I would accidently pack a slipknot shirt of my (rather big-boned) classmate after sport. My mother washed the clothes and would wear it in the garden as it would fit nobody else. I had no idea and never told her but seing her gardening even years after my graduation in a slipknot shirt was hilarious.
Teenage wasteland.mp3 Sun screen song.mp3 Wahoo.mp3
Nirvana-full-discography.mp3.exe
Easy. Ghosts 1, 2, 3 and 4
Fuck off with this gatekeeping bullshit.
yet, wearing a band shirt implicates interest. imagine talking to sb using that as a lead and them being clueless. At least have a story why you'd wear a bands shirt you dont know (its my brothers etc.)
Exactly. Gatekeeping exists for the purpose of bouncing predators and Nazis who front the idea of belonging and allyship from gaining access to the scene under false pretenses. I’d wager everyone of us has at some point worn a shirt, patch, or pin of some band we liked because of the design or the vibe but weren’t able to recite their entire catalog from memory. Hell, some of the bands fuck up trying to play their own deep cuts and B-sides years later.
Wearing a sports jersey implicates interest as well but I won't expect someone wearing a Buffalo Bills jersey to name our third string depth corner.
I'd rather be excited someone actually has interest in something I do rather than gatekeep that interest. I'd love to talk about the player depth of the Buffalo Bills with someone who only knows who Josh Allen is. It makes me happy sharing something I love and it will make them a bigger fan than they were yesterday.
If your entire fandom is based on knowing everything about it, you're the piece of shit.
You started your fandom on something from nothing. There was a time you didn't know a single song of the band you love, or a player on the team you watch. You didn't know shit about it and now you do. Do the same for others and help them learn more, not be the school test on their knowledge.
Nah, fuck off. No one needs to pass your dumbass purity test to wear a certain shirt.
This type of nonsense actually kills the thing you're trying to protect. What are you trying to prove? That some kid doesn't know the songs? Sure, you know you're right... but why milk it? Just say "come as you are" and share your passions with others.
I wouldn't have been able to name the songs as a kid, even if I knew them. For example, growing up listening to my parents' radio, I already loved the Beatles, Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, etc. - I could sing a lot of their songs, but didn't have the connection to the artists in my brain yet. I just knew, "Oh hey, it's that song I like." Only when I got older and started building my own music collection did I start to connect the musician names and song names to the songs.
I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case for kids in band T-shirts. Their parents bought them the shirt. Their parents probably play that musician's music around their kid. The kid can like the music, wear the shirt, but still be unable to "name three songs" by the artist just because that information hasn't come together for them yet.
Yeah, this is such a dumb territorial pissings. Just dive into good music before you get an aneurism. Moist vagina!
Surprisingly, I get poser-checked much more often for my Caduceus necklace than my Rolling Stones bag
As someone who grew up on Nirvana I'm in no place to gatekeep fashion. My clothes back then were so fucking big that gusts of wind picked me up like a kite. I had an empty wallet CHAINED to my belt for fucks sake.
Okay but the wallet chains (thicker the better, sagging little over knee) were cool
empty wallet CHAINED to my belt for fucks sake.
That's functional. The chain weighed you down so you didn't drift away.
You throw the wallet out like an anchor.
Oh, you're a Nirvana fan? Name every person Courtney Love has killed with a Shotgun to the face.
Should I just not save him when he ODs next, like the multiple other times I saved him previously?
Nah better shoot him in the face with a shotgun that he procured from a friend, after he suddenly absconds from rehab. A gun he got after all his other guns were seized by the police when I called them the last time he locked himself in a room with guns.
Genius play by Courtney. Kill the suicidal drug addict before they kill themselves.
One other problem with naming Nirvana songs is that their titles are often not words from the chorus like most mainstream songs.
I think most people who know Nirvana could name Smells like teen spirit even though it's not in the lyrics. I suspect people could name Come as you are, since it's the first lyric of the song.
But after that, I guess it might be Heart shaped box?
With Nirvana, when you really want to hear that one song and you go look it up, you always think, okay, what's the song name? "Yeah!"? That can't be right. And then you have to go through some process to pry it out of your memory until you remember it's Lithium.
That was my thought too. Nirvana pops up on my playlists fairly regularly, but I doubt I could have listed 3 of their songs and I grew up with that shit. Reading your post was a few iterations of "Oh yeah, that's what that song is called!"
Gimme the hum test any day though!
Yup. I could probably sing along to about 10 Nirvana songs, and even knowing the words to them I might know the names of two of them.
My favorite song of theirs is actually a cover: “Lake of Fire” by the Meat Puppets
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So uh, is it just me who saw their logo as a butt plug at first glance?
No, but I did get a sudden urge to play Knights of the Old Republic.
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My favorite band is Old Navy.
I liked them back when they were New Navy
Name three sea shanties!
I could only get Drunken Sailor and Blow the Man Down, off the top of my head.
Completely unrelated and just because sea shanties is a theme that seldom comes up anywhere, I will post htis video of a performance of Roll the Old Chariot which I have always been very preferential to:
To the brig with you!
Well...alright then. I won't pretend like last time wasn't entirely unenjoyable. The blowing down is fine. I could do without the rusty razor. We don't need another nipple incident.
Remember Maxell? They were like 98% of my collection.
I'm not going to gatekeep this but I will be sad when the conversation goes "cool {band} shirt! You ever listen to their live stuff?" and they go "what? It's a band?"
Why is it always band shirts tho?
Surely there is at least one person out there wearing a Pikachu shirt that doesn't know what Pokemon is.
I grew up wearing T-shirts covered in stuff I had no idea about because we would regularly shop at Frenchie's which is a chain that sells used and B-stock clothing.
Concert print too much t shirt and can't sell it, thriff shop bought a lot of them for cheap and sell for cheap, thrifter saw nice print and bought it without knowing who the band is.
Name 5 of those girls on your ahegao hoodie
Fuckin fake fans everywhere
Name 5 of those girls on your ahegao hoodie
*boys
Fake Asanagi fan smh
Nah, everyone autistic enough to wear a Pokémon shirt in public knows who Pikachu is.
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