[info] Anti-Tween Bands: Youth Gone Wild!

Anti-Tween Bands: Youth Gone Wild!
Posted Mon Apr 6, 2009 6:48pm PDT by Lyndsey Parker in Video Ga Ga

Youthfulness has always been an important part of any pop or rock star's appeal--which makes sense, since kids buy lots of records and drive trends. But being teenaged is especially all the rage nowadays, with the charts currently ruled with a kid-gloved fist by the under-18 set: Cyrus, Swift, various Brothers (Jonas, Naked), et al.

But it all comes across as pretty safe, pretty tame--like these are kids who've never broken a curfew, never done detention, never received less than an A- on a test, or ever had to be asked twice by Mom and Dad to take out the trash or do their homework. Come on, now--how many teenagers in America can really relate to that?

However, not all teenage (or tweenage, if that is indeed the proper term) musicians are going the Radio Disney route. Some of them are actually acting like true teens--that is, like snotty, hormone-riddled rebels--and creating loud, riotous juvie-hall rock 'n' roll that, ironically, is probably more influenced by their parents' supercool record collections than by anything on Nickelodeon right now.

Yes, whether it's girly-punk that echoes the feminist sentiments of the '90s riot-grrrrl movement or shreddy retro-metal inspired by the likes of '80s metal gods Metallica and Slayer, many of today's adolescent rockers are coming up with alterna-teen fare that oddly sounds fresher and feistier than any recent recording by Miley, the Jonases, or any of the HSM castmates.

Here are those at the head of the anti-tween class...





Tokio Hotel
The most well-known band on this list, these creatively coiffed German rockers have released three albums, sold 5 million units in their homeland, and won a Best New Artist VMA in America. They're almost too old to be included here, since they range from age 19 to 22--but they actually started way back in 2003, when they were far too young to be licensed to drive on the Autobahn. It's hard to believe that TH have been together longer than many rock bands 10 years their senior...and those older bands surely must feel like underachieving losers when they take stock of what Tokio Hotel (and the other kiddie bands on this list, for that matter) have already accomplished in their young careers.




Source : http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/videogaga/16036/anti-tween-bands-youth-gone-wild/[/size]


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