Been on duolingo banging out yapanese sessions just to entertain your fine ass

apparently considered metal these days. It’s interesting to see the change, but also the younger generation didn’t grow up with these specific genres as the height of middle school edgy coolness, and probably have no problem conflating them. I wonder if I’m right in that assumption. Have a good day.

fandoms? There’s no real point to this post or any message I’m trying to get across and I’m sorry for wasting your time if you thought there was. I just wanted to talk about certain behaviors I noticed in my youth. It doesn’t seem to be this way any more. A lot of “core” bands are unanimously (11/?)

So what made it this way? Was it ignorance on the part of the “core” fans? Were they just so obsessed with the metal aesthetic that they never cared to research their own music with a fine toothed comb? It was it metal fans? Their arrogance and traditionalism keeping a wall between the two (10/?)

on the bands they enjoyed. Whereas metal fans did not see “core” fans as their peers. They were a completely different clique enjoying a completely different type of music. Music they were annoyed was often lumped together with theirs when it was obviously so different! (9/?)

face and everyone has crazy hair and tight clothes. Different clothes, but tight clothes. What is so interesting to me now though isn’t what was interesting then, but rather the opposite. “Core” fans often completely saw eachother as fellow metal fans, only separated into separate cliques (8/?)

And frankly? As an adult who now knows not every music fan is hyper obsessed with the minutiae of what separates each sub genre from eachother and the walls that define them, yeah I get it. As much as metal sounds like what “metal” should sound like, so does this. It’s loud, emotional, in your (7/?)

in a boyband banger. This was not their scene. But when you would tell these “core” kids that their music isn’t technically metal, they’d get annoyed because to them, of course this is metal. The guitars are crazy and down tuned and the vocals are often shouted and screamed. How could this not (6/?)

The metal kids often looked down on the “core” kids. Their music was trendy and hip (at the time), yet the metal kids have been listening to music in the same rigid genre classifications. Not only that, a lot of these bands the “core” kids listened to had choruses that wouldn’t be out of place (5/?)

I mean, the obvious one is sure yeah the fashion and hair choices. Whatever. That’s not really what I’m talking about. You’ll notice often in bigger towns these types of music fans are far more separated into different cliques than people who don’t listen to heavy music might realize. (4/?)

Now im an old man (by popular music standards) and have had a lot of time to think about the music I was surrounded by in my youth. I remember noticing very stark and obvious differences in people who preferred “core” genres to traditional metal genres (3/?)

And sure as day, eventually, I became ashamed that I’d even bring it up to people and just kept my mouth shut. I loved music. I loved sharing knowledge. Instances like this made me less interested in discussing it. But lately it’s hit me why I had to bring it up so much back then. (2/?)