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Tartar Martyr:
I want to introduce my cousins to good music.  One is 10 and has a very short attention span, I think he is too young.  But the other is 12, and I have been able to have conversations about real things with her (she reads a lot of books, so do I, we talk about them).  She listens to Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Greenday etc. and it hurts me when I have to refrain from giving her a verbal bitch slap for her offenses (offenses like having different tastes than her 20 year old cousin!).

Anyway, should age and maturity even come into question when trying to determine if someone should be introduced to real music?  I'm not thinking about giving her something crazy and inaccessable, just something like the Shins amd some old Beatles stuff, eventually moving along to Pavement, Pixies, Slint, Sebadoh, The Breeders etc.

Does anyone here have experience deliberately influencing the tastes of friends and family?

Mnementh:
I think you can start slipping some more pop like indie stuff in there.  Just bear in mind she will have her own tastes, so don't expect her to like everything.

Is she hot?

ForteBass:
Down boy. Down!
*gets the hose*

Mnementh:
That was crude, but when I saw this thread title my first thought was "Alright, who's posting about jailbait in the music forum"

deborah:
it's doable at 12.  i'd hold off on the slint unless she asks for it.

i'd be really careful about attempting the machiavellian music maneuver on adolescents; it backfired on me back in the mid 90s - i turned this girl onto punk music and then i moved to phoenix for a year, leaving her unsupervised.  when i came back, she was a raging political vegan, spewing propagandhi's propaganda at me and very pissed that i wasn't also a vegan like her.

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