I am not a pre-pubescent girl that has not even started her period yet let alone her teen years, I am almost through my teen years and I am about to graduate high school.
I am unpleasantly aware of the large number of young girls in fandoms, but I assure that they do not run them. The girls over the age of fifteen hate having such young girls in the fandoms. I don’t even really like the fifteen year olds, sometimes they are just too young.
I must sound like a hypocrite, right? I know better than anybody how hard it is to stay out of fandoms no matter your age. I started in the Justin Bieber fandom when I was only eleven years old in the seventh grade. Let me tell you I was that annoying little girl in the fandom that was too young, which is why I never was able to go to a Justin Bieber concert.
I guess you could say I have grown in fandoms a lot. When I was a dumb eleven year old obsessing over a boy that was four years older than me I had so much to learn. I didn’t really make any friends in that fandom because I was so young and I will admit annoying. After telling people that I’m a Directioner I get many strange looks and judgments. I am so much more than just a Directioner though, I am in too many fandoms to count and I love so many bands that I can’t even fit all my music on my laptop.
Back in May, Jack Baraket from All Time Low tweeted an article link and tagged the 5 Seconds of Summer band account.
The article actually made me really mad. Of course I liked it because it was saying how 5 Seconds of Summer could help rebirth the age of pop-punk, but it was later in the article that really fired me up.
And where’s the trail of influence going to lead those fans? When these obsessive fans learn (and they will learn) that their favorite band got their start by covering pop-punk bands and cite them as their influences, are they going to come looking? Are they going to start listening to Mayday Parade? Absolutely. Will that lead them to the Summer Set? All Time Low? Maybe even Wonder Years? Probably. I know what you’re thinking ‘the last thing I want is a bunch of screaming 1D fans in my scene.’ Why not?”
Okay first of all, I have been listening to bands like Mayday Parade, the Summer Set, All Time Low, Blink-182, Go Radio, Yellowcard, We The Kings, Panic! At the Disco, Aerosmith, Nirvana, Motley Crue, Kiss, and AC-DC long before One Direction and 5 Seconds of Summer were even thinking about forming a band. Second of all again I’m a seventeen year old girl who had to buy all her band tee’s, concert tickets and other band merch all by herself. My parents won’t buy that stuff for me because they just don’t have it.
When I went to Pittsburgh for my One Direction concert I had to use a month’s worth of my paychecks for my ticket, band shirts and my dinner. When I went to see 5SOS in Philly my parents drove me yes, but I had to pay for my ticket, the hotel room AND the gas for my mom’s car. Every other concert that I have been to, I have either had to win tickets for or pay for them myself. The only concert my parents have ever paid for was my Aerosmith and Motley Crue concert and that was because it was mine and my sister’s birthday present and I was only eight at the time.
So no, I am not a tween with a boatload of my parents’ money to spend and I have already discovered more than the bands that they listed.
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