I got my kid an ACDC shirt because he likes ACDC, so I assume your Tupac shirt kid likes Tupac?

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Anonymous wrote:I know these are in, I am curious if you think they are appropriate for school or if teachers are judging the parents for the young kids wearing them.

I have asked kids over 10 who are wearing a nirvana or metallica t-shirt about the respective bands; a sizable number have no idea of the underlying music or the bands/individual muscians. (I can see the music and legacy of tupac and biggie being a bit more in these kids' cultural awareness.)

So, I don't think teachers see wearing the shirt as having any connection to the music; only an affinity to the design on the shirt.

Letting your kids wear a band/artist shirt without knowing the music is actually the biggest parenting fail.

The biggest one? Ok, thanks.

I thought "of the ones related to band shirts in this thread about band shirts" was kind of obvious context

I truly do not think that is OBVIOUS, in the case of a thread where a lot of posters are claiming that a $12 tshirt you can get at Target with the name of a band who peaked 30 years ago is "try hard." I think you have to be a lot more obvious.

And I agree that if Kid is going to wear Band Shirt, Kid needs to also listen to Band. Maybe they don't have to become the world's biggest Metallica fan, but be able to name ONE Metallica song you like if you're gonna wear a Metallica shirt to 2nd grade. But I don't think that it's edgy, offensive to people's grandparents, or "try hard" to wear a shirt, period. I do think people making judgments about this are trying pretty hard to find something to criticize.

I live in the PNW, though, where people don't take stuff like this as personally as they do in the DMV.

Our 6 year old DS loves that kind of music and classic rock anthems. I would not buy him a band shirt or encourage him to wear one, but that's just me. I have never liked band shirts and think they are mostly to be avoided. At the same time, I don't know that I would judge someone for it. Seems sort of petty.

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Anonymous wrote:I know these are in, I am curious if you think they are appropriate for school or if teachers are judging the parents for the young kids wearing them.

I have asked kids over 10 who are wearing a nirvana or metallica t-shirt about the respective bands; a sizable number have no idea of the underlying music or the bands/individual muscians. (I can see the music and legacy of tupac and biggie being a bit more in these kids' cultural awareness.)

So, I don't think teachers see wearing the shirt as having any connection to the music; only an affinity to the design on the shirt.

Letting your kids wear a band/artist shirt without knowing the music is actually the biggest parenting fail.

The biggest one? Ok, thanks.

I thought "of the ones related to band shirts in this thread about band shirts" was kind of obvious context

Anonymous wrote:My seven year old almost exclusively wears shirts with pictures of cats on them, but it seems very possible to me that a seven year old might like Nirvana?

My kids definitely like metal. I try to expose them to other music but they pretty much just like 80s rock (think Eye of the Tiger) and the cheesiest of metal.

Anonymous wrote:What’s the difference between that and a Star Wars shirt? Nothing. Looking for drama.

Eh, the difference is that Star Wars has some characters and media that is actually aimed at this age group, whereas these bands don't, really. If a kid is wearing a Yoda shirt or something with the Millenium falcon on it, I assume they've seen the movies or at least one of the cartoons or something and actually like it. This is less likely with a Tupac t-shirt, which probably their parent put them in because they thought it was funny.

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Anonymous wrote:I know these are in, I am curious if you think they are appropriate for school or if teachers are judging the parents for the young kids wearing them.

I have asked kids over 10 who are wearing a nirvana or metallica t-shirt about the respective bands; a sizable number have no idea of the underlying music or the bands/individual muscians. (I can see the music and legacy of tupac and biggie being a bit more in these kids' cultural awareness.)

So, I don't think teachers see wearing the shirt as having any connection to the music; only an affinity to the design on the shirt.

Letting your kids wear a band/artist shirt without knowing the music is actually the biggest parenting fail.

The biggest one? Ok, thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:I know these are in, I am curious if you think they are appropriate for school or if teachers are judging the parents for the young kids wearing them.

I have asked kids over 10 who are wearing a nirvana or metallica t-shirt about the respective bands; a sizable number have no idea of the underlying music or the bands/individual muscians. (I can see the music and legacy of tupac and biggie being a bit more in these kids' cultural awareness.)

So, I don't think teachers see wearing the shirt as having any connection to the music; only an affinity to the design on the shirt.

Letting your kids wear a band/artist shirt without knowing the music is actually the biggest parenting fail.

My seven year old almost exclusively wears shirts with pictures of cats on them, but it seems very possible to me that a seven year old might like Nirvana?

I do find a little pretentious on very young kids. Like under school age. Because even if a 4 yr old is listening to and liking one of these bands (which could happen) they don't have a concept of a "band tee" and also are unlikely to actually like the imagery on these tees. More likely their parent put them in it because they thought it was funny and cool to be like "Oh Levi looooves Nirvana" when really Levi likes Bluey and the Freeze Dance song.

Older kids tend to be a lot more opinionated about their clothes and also care about what's cool (to them and their friends, not what's cool to their parents) and if I saw an older kid in a tee like this, I'd assume it's because it's what they wanted to be wearing and think nothing of it.

It's just the really little kids wearing them when I think that 99.9% of small children would not be drawn to the music or visual aesthetics and would probably prefer something colorful and familiar, where I roll my eyes.

What’s the difference between that and a Star Wars shirt? Nothing. Looking for drama.

Anonymous wrote:I find it really cringey to see little kids or babies wearing shirts with band names on them. Especially the ones op is talking about. But even worse is seeing little kids or babies with shirts/apparel displaying their parents political points of view.

In what world are those two things in the same category? There are some real sad people on this forum.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it really cringey to see little kids or babies wearing shirts with band names on them. Especially the ones op is talking about. But even worse is seeing little kids or babies with shirts/apparel displaying their parents political points of view.

Yes.

I wouldn't judge the kid. I would judge the parents and pity the kid.

It is clear that you are an insanely judgmental person for no reason but pity the kid? Get a grip

Anonymous wrote:Kids who wear such clothing are poseurs trying to look cool.

We are talking about a 7 year old child. Are you ok?

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Anonymous wrote:My 7 year old likes metallica - heard enter sandman playing in car and asked to listen to more songs. Never thought about getting him a tshirt but maybe i should. Why would anyone have negative feelings about this?

Because they try hards like their parents duh

Why would liking a band be considered "they try hards" - whatever that means?