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Are we supposed to rebel against our parents' favourite music?
There's a debate on the irritating and frankly borderline luddite Word magazine blog (on which its own editor recently wrote an anti-Adele diatribe, only to be summarily reminded he'd just given over two pages of the latest edition to her) about Laura Marling at the moment - not centring on anything so dull as what she sounds like, although there's a bit of that, but on the revelation in an interview that she was inspired by listening to her dad's Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell records. Apparently, the majority seem to have decided, this is A Bad Thing and she should have been listening to the Spice Girls and Oasis like any normal girl (one who was seven at their critical peaks, but they've let that pass)
But it's not, is it? Alright, my parents didn't like music, apart from Jim Reeves and Showaddywaddy, and indeed still sometimes query why I take such an interest in it myself, but especially now there are parents who grew up with anything from punk to Stock Aitken & Waterman is it so bad that you take after this sort of cooler than thou upbringing where possible or is it still the sort of indoctrination you're supposed to
break from?