A little help--

[roxy]

My brilliant friends--what would teen Caucasian boys have been listening to in the late 90s-early 2000s? They probably weren't listening to the same stuff I was--by the way, Big Pun the greatest rapper ever was, no argument. I ask about music because I need it for my story, where I will pretend to know what teen boys back in the day were thinking about. Wish me luck! If I come up with a decent outline in the next two days I'm signing up for the SpN BB. (waits for the cheering-*cricket, cricket*)

Comments

[locknkey.livejournal.com]

I think you can set it anywhere you like. That's why you are God the author. :)

Also what genre do they listen to? I take my music seriously in fics, becasue I think for teen characters it's strong identifier and says a lot about their personality. I listened to my parents swing music and my uncles 50's collection, but wouldn't touch country with a ten foot pole and rarely missed a weekend of Casey Kasem. :) A goth kid is going to have different tastes than the kid from the farm most likely. The Christian boy likes rock, but only listens to Christian Rock. :) Or you can use the music as a way to set the person apart. The goth kid who also likes jazz or is the fic set near a college radio station which would open up a much wider listening opportunity. :)

I'll shut up now. :(

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Heee!

I listened to my parents swing music and my uncles 50's collection, but wouldn't touch country with a ten foot pole and rarely missed a weekend of Casey Kasem.

Ditto, substituting Casey with Don Cornelius. ;)

I thought that I'd use to music to give hints to each kid's personality, not that the music will be a huge presence, more of a little background flavor. It's funny, I had elaborate playlists to write to, but only really used music in a fic once--which was a lot of fun but very labor intensive, hah!

Anyhoo, I have to listen to this music Red suggested, but I know that one kid listens to pop, the other to a little rap and one to music that would have been a little adventurous, considering their ages (13-15 at the moment and subject to change depending how my slash muse moves. lately she's been kind of hands off. *g*).

No shutting up girl--it's fun to talk about writing!!