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Counterculture Is The New Black

It goes with everything. It never goes out of style, it’s widely accepted, and it’s widely practiced. Counterculture is now the mainstream. Counterculture is a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm.

However, there are still plenty of teenagers that think they’re the “1%” of kids their age that aren’t completely brain-dead because they listen to Fleetwood Mac or Nirvana.

Here’s a hint for you the self-proclaimed one percent: you can’t invalidate 99% of your population because they listen to Nicki Minaj because they’re “big name” artists. Here’s another hint: Fleetwood Mac is among some of the best-selling bands of all time. They’re a pretty big name. Just because they aren’t consistently putting out music anymore doesn’t change that they were topping the charts when your parents were in high school.

We’ve all seen American Horror Story: Coven. We all remember when Misty Day twirled around bearing a fringed wrap to “Rhiannon.” I’ll admit, I bought the song after I heard it, because it’s a really good song. But I also listened to the whole album it’s off of. And I hate to pull this card, but I’d be really surprised if any of these kids could name five songs off the record that weren’t “Rhiannon”” or “Landslide.”

Here’s another hint for you: you’re still not “indie” if you listen to Nirvana.  Even the t-shirts bearing the smiling Nirvana logo have become embarrassing for the kids who wear them, because of how common they are. I can’t imagine how it feels to walk past someone wearing the same exact shirt as you.

And One last hint, before we continue on: just because Kurt Cobain committed suicide, doesn’t mean you’re allowed to romanticize mental illness because you’ve listened to his band.

Were you able to piece the clues together and figure out what I’m trying to say yet? No? I’ll tell you.

You’re not indie.

Really, the entire character of “misunderstood teen who dresses in all-black, smokes cheap cigarettes and listens to grunge music in their bedroom with dim lighting” is so old it belongs in a retirement home. The funny part about it is that these kids seem to think they’re somehow going against the mainstream when,counterculture has become the mainstream.

Get some color in your wardrobe, get rid of those cheap cigarettes (it’s bad for your lungs), and get over yourself. Go listen to “Rumors” (that’s Fleetwood Mac’s album, if you didn’t know) with your parents to invoke some nostalgia. I’m sure raising your pretentious self has been exhausting for them, and they’d love to get back to the good old days.

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