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Honestly, this is a tale as old as time.

Back in the 90s, I remember the one and only time a teacher ever "embarrassed" the son of the richest family in town. He was one of those kids that thought he was God's gift to the Earth, and pretty much every adult in the school system treated him as such.

Then one day he was loudly raving about "this new band called AC/DC" and the 6th grade teacher had an absolute blast telling everybody how hilarious that statement was.

For those not in the know, AC/DC was incredibly famous, basically a household name, and had been so for literally decades at that point. And this kid acted like they were brand new up and coming band that nobody had ever heard of before.

Anyway, I had no empathy. He was a shithead bully of the worst kind, so I'm sure that one time he got made fun of really stung and he fucking deserved it.

As much as this is a trend that has always happened I think it’s much more common now with the prevalence of music streaming and the internet. Anyone can look up any music anytime and listen. This exposes people to way more music than just new stuff or stuff they know from their parents

I swear that, on top of dressing exactly like we did in the 90s, most of my college students are into the exact same music we were: Metallica, Nirvana, RHCP, Smashing Pumpkins, Gorillaz, are all bands they actively listen too, amongst others. I even had a punch of Primus obssesed dudes once.

Had this happen with my teenage nephew. He was talking about how's really getting into this band that I've probably never heard of called Deftones. He seemed really disappointed when I showed him a high school picture of myself circa 1999 wearing a Deftones t shirt.

I actually had that experience with my dad once. Back in high school I was blasting Pornography and he told me that he likes Siouxsie and The Banshees better and by the way Robert Smith played on Hyena. Mind blown.

At least the kid was listening to the music. I’ve lost count of the number of kids walking around in “Cure,” “Def Leppard,” “Poison,” etc. shirts who have NFC about the band. They just think the shirt looks cool. Which… of course it is, but look it up on YouTube or something, FFS!

I’m excited for when this happens to my. My wife is super close minded about music and won’t listen to anything not on the radio and I’m the opposite. My hope is at least one of my kids will be into weird stuff. If I’m lucky it’ll be both.

I thought ahead, and started making my daughter listen to Bauhaus at six months.

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

I found The Smiths insufferable when I was young and I still find them insufferable.

Still like a few of their songs, but fucking GROW UP, JESUS CHRIST.

As a kid I thought AC/DC was a relatively unknown band based on the fact that only one or two of my classmates had heard of them.

"Go back to listening to your old man bands like The Normal and Alien Sex Fiend or whatever."

Billy Bragg told a story last year about being in a clothing shop somewhere in the southern USA, and when the salesperson discovered his name and that he was a singer/songwriter, she told him there used to be a Billy Bragg back in the '80s who was 'pretty good.'

The Cure has been around for several decades. Only way not to hear of them is to be neck deep in country or bluegrass

If this ever happens to you, it's important that you act clueless and wary.