Do teens today know 90's music?

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I thought this was cool. A bunch of teens are played some songs from the 90s and they try to identify the name of the song as well as the artist.

I identified almost every single song in both videos.



 
i think this thread has occurred? or maybe it was just nirvana

ive taught at high schools and kids pretend to know and be a fan of 90s music but once u start talking about a bands catalog it is revealed they know nothing and they ironically bought their soundgarden/nirvana/whatever shirt at urban outfitters
 
Didn't know the name of the Tool song, and didn't know if it was N Sync or the Backdoor Boys. Everything else was easy. Now I have to go look for other decades.
 
For the Whitney song someone immediately said Celine, so I just assumed it was the Titanic song. I was wrong.

And to be fair to these kids if anyone played me any song from the last 10 years, I wouldn't know the song or artist. I'd just guess Bieber or Swift.
 
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Didn't know the name of the Mariah Carey song and didn't know Good Vibrations was by Marky Mark. The rest were pretty easy.
 
I knew every artist and almost every song

Also shame to the teens who said Chris Cornell sounds like Kurt Cobain. Cornell has one of the best vocals in grunge history, way better than Kurt ever did and could hit the high notes like no other. Just listen to Say Hello 2 Heaven by Temple Of The Dog, the notes he hits there are otherworldly
 
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I hope they dont because most of it sucked BBC, but todays and 2000s music is more worse.
 
Since the start of 2016, I have been helping out at a secondary school, high school for you guys, kids aged 13 ~ 16.

As of now, none of them I asked know what Y2K is. So 90s songs/movies would be even more difficult.
 
I had heard a few of them but the only one I really knew was I Will Always Love You because it was a 70s song written by Dolly Parton that Linda Ronstadt sang on her Prisoner in Disguise album in 1975. Linda could sing the high notes instead of screaming them like Whitney.

I didn't listen to much 90s music. Many of the radio stations switched to oldies because nobody listened to the current music. The 80s started a downturn in music . Things started looking up at the end of the 80s only to plunge into the abyss of the 90s.
 
odog said:
For the Whitney song someone immediately said Celine, so I just assumed it was the Titanic song. I was wrong.

And to be fair to these kids if anyone played me any song from the last 10 years, I wouldn't know the song or artist. I'd just guess Bieber or Swift.
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I had never heard Rap God by Eminem until a couple of days ago. It was in one of those reaction videos. From what I remember of him back when he first came out I didn't like him, but I like this song. The last song I heard by him was probably Stan.
 
I was a big fan of alternative and post grunge in the mid to late 90s so I knew most of these. Never cared much for hip hop or r & b so I didn't know the Marky mark or the Mariah Carey one. Also I couldn't tell any of the boy bands apart because they all sucked.

I want to see some for the 80s.
 
I know a lot of music made before my birth.

The real divide is tv shows. If reruns aren't in rotation, there's not much reason to go watch/download episodes of Hang Time or The Single Guy
 
Teens know nothing.

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Satanical Eve said:
I knew every artist and almost every song

Also shame to the teens who said Chris Cornell sounds like Kurt Cobain. Cornell has one of the best vocals in grunge history, way better than Kurt ever did and could hit the high notes like no other. Just listen to Say Hello 2 Heaven by Temple Of The Dog, the notes he hits there are otherworldly
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Have you listened to Cornell's solo album recently? His voice is like fucking chantilly cream. He's beautiful.
 
ralphc1 said:
I had heard a few of them but the only one I really knew was I Will Always Love You because it was a 70s song written by Dolly Parton that Linda Ronstadt sang on her Prisoner in Disguise album in 1975. Linda could sing the high notes instead of screaming them like Whitney.

I didn't listen to much 90s music. Many of the radio stations switched to oldies because nobody listened to the current music. The 80s started a downturn in music . Things started looking up at the end of the 80s only to plunge into the abyss of the 90s.
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Oh come on. What about The Wonderstuff?!?!?!?!
 
Satanical Eve said:
I knew every artist and almost every song

Also shame to the teens who said Chris Cornell sounds like Kurt Cobain. Cornell has one of the best vocals in grunge history, way better than Kurt ever did and could hit the high notes like no other. Just listen to Say Hello 2 Heaven by Temple Of The Dog, the notes he hits there are otherworldly
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I think him and Mike Patton (Faith no more) Were the best singers in rock n' roll in the 90's.
 
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