Teeny-Boppers

In the last year I think I've started to find myself as a person, as cheesy as that sounds, and my taste in music has changed a lot, it's gotten a lot better! I used to just listen to all the teeny-bopper stuff on the radio and like worship Kiss FM (not one of my proudest phases). I guess I started to shift away from that near the end of eighth grade, which was like a year and a half ago, when my friend showed me the band Cute Is What We Aim For. I think I pretty much fell in love with them the first time I heard the song "Finger Twist and Split", that song is amazing. That basically is what got me into the kind of the more underground alternative music scene. I'm not saying I listen to bands that only like 300 other people listen to, but their music isn't really on the radio, which is cool to me. I think part of it is that when the bands aren't as popular, the members are more accessible as people. Without a huge screaming fan base, they stay more down to earth. Sometimes people think I'm being really selfish when I say I don't want some of my favorite bands to get really famous, but I don't think they really understand where I'm coming from. When I say I don't want a band to get super famous, I'm not saying I don't want them to be successful. Of course I want my favorite bands to make money, and go on more tours and record more CDs, but I don't want a bunch of people becoming their fans just because they heard them on the radio, or think they are good looking. It gets so annoying to be at concerts with about 400 twelve year old girls in miniskirts and tank tops screaming they wanna have the lead singer's babies. Shut up!! When bands get more popular, people start liking them for the wrong reasons. These girls don't listen to the lyrics, they don't even buy the CDs to help out the band, they just download it all from the internet, memorize the lyrics, and run screaming towards the "hott guyzz" in the band.