from my friend who’s a stand-up
men will criticize women for not knowing the bands on their t-shirts but will wear floral patterns without being able to identify any of the flowers
Men will wear floral patterns?
Never heard of a Hawaiian shirt?
The ones with hibiscus all over them? I don’t wear them.
But you have heard of them <Jack_sparrow.jif>
I work a lot of college events, and I see a lot of vintage band shirts, with Dark Side of the Moon the most common. I always ask if they heard the album, and they say Yes only about 20% of the time, so I tell them that their homework assignment is to go home and listen to it tonight, and that it will change their life.
One girl was wearing a Metallica shirt, and she very enthusiastically said she LOVED them, because her Dad always plays them in the car. I could tell it was a genuine loving connection she had with her Dad over Metallica. Truly beautiful.
I appreciate the anti-gatekeeping sentiment here, but I can’t reconcile that with the judgment I think we’d have for someone wearing a Che Guevara shirt without knowing who he was.
To be fair their gen x and millennial parents probably still buy most of their clothes. I buy my son band shirts and he’s college age. He’s got Dropkick Murphy’s, NOFX, RTM, Nirvana and Rancid. He’d recognize their songs but I don’t know if he knows the names of the songs
It’s also ok to like a bands visual art even if you are not a fan of their musical art. Or I suppose the other way round too
Adult man here, I’m just happy my favorite band is still in the zeitgeist whatsoever.
I love the LED Zeppelins, they’re such a nice design brand.
I thought that was a light bulb brand.
Or an illuminated aircraft brand.
I’m slightly annoyed, go on
This. Fuck those gatekeepers.
There’s some truth to the joke though - a while ago one of the fast fashion brands, I think it was H&M, created a line of fake bands just to put on t-shirts and other things. It’s pretty sad.
“Nirvana is just a state I’d like to achieve someday”
Oh I think you have some typos there.
Alternatively: I’m building my own state
My daughter wore a Motörhead body when she was 6 months old, and couldn’t name a single song of theirs. What a fucking poser
“Lemmy Rules”
You: “Say mama, say dada.”
Her: “Overkill.”
🤘
And he’s mumblin’
And he’s screamin’
Cause he can’t name
What they’re singing!
Let him wear shirts,
They don’t wanna.
Even cool bands
Like Nirvana!
Fuck off with this gatekeeping bullshit.
yeah gatekeepers are lame. however, hehe funny meme :)
yet, wearing a band shirt implicates interest. imagine talking to sb using that as a lead and them being clueless. At least have a story why you’d wear a bands shirt you dont know (its my brothers etc.)
Nah. Eat an ass. I’m wearing it because nirvana is my favorite clothing brand.
Nah, fuck off. No one needs to pass your dumbass purity test to wear a certain shirt.
Wearing a sports jersey implicates interest as well but I won’t expect someone wearing a Buffalo Bills jersey to name our third string depth corner.
I’d rather be excited someone actually has interest in something I do rather than gatekeep that interest. I’d love to talk about the player depth of the Buffalo Bills with someone who only knows who Josh Allen is. It makes me happy sharing something I love and it will make them a bigger fan than they were yesterday.
If your entire fandom is based on knowing everything about it, you’re the piece of shit.
You started your fandom on something from nothing. There was a time you didn’t know a single song of the band you love, or a player on the team you watch. You didn’t know shit about it and now you do. Do the same for others and help them learn more, not be the school test on their knowledge.
Exactly. Gatekeeping exists for the purpose of bouncing predators and Nazis who front the idea of belonging and allyship from gaining access to the scene under false pretenses. I’d wager everyone of us has at some point worn a shirt, patch, or pin of some band we liked because of the design or the vibe but weren’t able to recite their entire catalog from memory. Hell, some of the bands fuck up trying to play their own deep cuts and B-sides years later.
Don’t be mad, this joke is so old and tired that a sunagogue considered it safe to tweet in 2021
As someone who grew up on Nirvana I’m in no place to gatekeep fashion. My clothes back then were so fucking big that gusts of wind picked me up like a kite. I had an empty wallet CHAINED to my belt for fucks sake.
I just carried around the chain, waving it around for fun. In hindsight it may have been menacing neurodivergence. I got really good at chain tricks!
empty wallet CHAINED to my belt for fucks sake.
That’s functional. The chain weighed you down so you didn’t drift away.
The wallet chain prevents you from getting robbed because it signals to everyone you have no money
You throw the wallet out like an anchor.
I NEED a single panel news paper comic of this visual.
Okay but the wallet chains (thicker the better, sagging little over knee) were cool
This type of nonsense actually kills the thing you’re trying to protect. What are you trying to prove? That some kid doesn’t know the songs? Sure, you know you’re right… but why milk it? Just say “come as you are” and share your passions with others.
I wouldn’t have been able to name the songs as a kid, even if I knew them. For example, growing up listening to my parents’ radio, I already loved the Beatles, Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, etc. - I could sing a lot of their songs, but didn’t have the connection to the artists in my brain yet. I just knew, “Oh hey, it’s that song I like.” Only when I got older and started building my own music collection did I start to connect the musician names and song names to the songs.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that were the case for kids in band T-shirts. Their parents bought them the shirt. Their parents probably play that musician’s music around their kid. The kid can like the music, wear the shirt, but still be unable to “name three songs” by the artist just because that information hasn’t come together for them yet.
Yeah, this is such a dumb territorial pissings. Just dive into good music before you get an aneurism. Moist vagina!
This dude is such a negative creep.
I can’t even name the bands or titles of songs I regularly listen to. Some of us just listen to music to enjoy it, not to score fact points with music nerds.
I would accidently pack a slipknot shirt of my (rather big-boned) classmate after sport. My mother washed the clothes and would wear it in the garden as it would fit nobody else. I had no idea and never told her but seing her gardening even years after my graduation in a slipknot shirt was hilarious.
