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A lot of bands have members in their 20s or even 30s, but their audience is mainly teens. Some examples are Simple Plan and Senses Fail. Why are the fans younger than the band members? I would expect more people the same age as the band to like the band.
A lot of bands have members in their 20s or even 30s, but their audience is mainly teens. Some examples are Simple Plan and Senses Fail. Why are the fans younger than the band members? I would expect more people the same age as the band to like the band.
Honestly, I don't see the reason for the buzz around fellas like linkin park, jonas brothers, senses fail, simple plan, smile empty soul, etc.,
They should be in their own category, like say, harry potter or twilight rock
A lot of bands have members in their 20s or even 30s, but their audience is mainly teens. Some examples are Simple Plan and Senses Fail. Why are the fans younger than the band members? I would expect more people the same age as the band to like the band.
city_data91, good question
It has always been and it always will be no matter whether we are talking about Beatles, Elvis Presley or Simple Plan (sorry, never heard abound this band before).
Take for example Beatles. Little girls went mad about them when they were at the height of their fame not only because they made good songs but also because these musicians were some kinda sex idols for them. You know millions of teen girls dreamed to get married with John Lennon way back. Older girls also liked Beatles for their good songs though "I love John, I go mad about him, he's sexy, I'd like to marry him" attitude was less important for a girl if she was a grown-up married one. That's why older girls are less frantic fans of their favs
There's another point. The most loyal fans are definetly teens, because when you are the teen you imbibe everything like a sponge. That's why in most cases the place in our hearts is taken for ever by our teen favs. And nobody's gonna change it. E.g. I have some favs, take for example Queen. It became my fav when I was a teen. Of course a lot of new musicians appeared since Queen became my fav and some of these musicians are pretty good but the place for fav in my heart is taken by Queen. No competitors for them among modern bands to me.
Once you're gonna be let's say 40yo and you're gonna give a damn about modern bands of future (let's say Simple Plan #3) because the only band you really like will be your teen love, it is Simple Plan of course. Nevertheless your kids probably will be into Simple Plan #3 band and they will not give a damn about good old-fashioned Simple Plan their dad like.
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There are very very few teenaged rock bands that are sucessful enough to have a following- this being mainly due to the fact that teenagers have not mastered their instumental and writing styles to the point of maturity needed to record and produce a commercially sucessful rock (or country) record (they do sing bubblegum and "boy band" music but serious rock stuff is not something teeangers can usually do). Therefore teens tend to listen to bands who are in their 20s and 30s. There are a few exceptions such as the band "Bush" that did do commercially sucessful rock as teens but they are few and far between.
A lot of bands have members in their 20s or even 30s, but their audience is mainly teens. Some examples are Simple Plan and Senses Fail. Why are the fans younger than the band members? I would expect more people the same age as the band to like the band.
Usually these type of bands start off in high school and it is automatically in relation to teen years. They become good enough and get picked up by an indie label. Producers from that label will try to keep there music geared towards the same audience or to the trend at the time. The band members eventually get older and still put out the same music cause they either want to continue being musicians or never went to college and this is the only life they know.
For the record, Simple Plan are sell outs and what they put out whatever there record label tells them to. Senses Fail at least went through there dues in the local scene
There are very very few teenaged rock bands that are sucessful enough to have a following- this being mainly due to the fact that teenagers have not mastered their instumental and writing styles to the point of maturity needed to record and produce a commercially sucessful rock (or country) record (they do sing bubblegum and "boy band" music but serious rock stuff is not something teeangers can usually do). Therefore teens tend to listen to bands who are in their 20s and 30s. There are a few exceptions such as the band "Bush" that did do commercially sucessful rock as teens but they are few and far between.
I don't know where you got the idea that producing a commercially successful record required instrumental and writing talent from.
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I don't know where you got the idea that producing a commercially successful record required instrumental and writing talent from.
It does require alot of talent to be commercially sucessful as a band. You have to have writing, instrumental and production talent to put out a good enough product to have a following.
It does require alot of talent to be commercially sucessful as a band. You have to have writing, instrumental and production talent to put out a good enough product to have a following.
Commercial success requires no musical talent. Most of the commercially successful are lacking in talent, and many of the non commercially successful have a great amount of talent.
Because the music is targeted at younger audiences because they're probably easier to influence. Plus, it takes a while to get famous and make it big for most bands.
Also, I think that a lot of bands probably DO actually have fan bases the same ages as the bands, but older generations tend to flaunt it quite a bit less. I'd be scared if I ever saw some 40-year old man squealing over Metallica. Last time I was at a concert/in a moshpit I do recall there being an awfully large amount of people there who were 30+. I think it also depends on the band/artist in question.
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