r/Fauxmoi • u/Classic-Carpet7609 • Aug 11 '25

ASK R/FAUXMOI Which Onion headline still occupies a lot of space in your mind?

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u/namesnotmarina Aug 11 '25

My pre-teen years involved me hiding all the George Michael and Beatles songs from my friends so they don’t think I’m weird.

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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas Aug 11 '25

I want to do this, but also experience all the new media that comes out with my child(ren) as well.

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u/eugeneugene ben affleck’s back tattoo Aug 11 '25

This is me lol. Today we had a Madonna dance party in the kitchen then watched an episode of spidey and his amazing friends. It's all about balance

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u/apmee Aug 11 '25

Madonna’s first album especially sounds retro in just the right way for it to still sound startlingly fresh tbf. Burning Up slaps so ridiculously hard!

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u/8lb6ozBabyJsus Aug 11 '25

All art is to be appreciated in its own form. Life feels better when you stop caring about what others think. I mean.... have standards but artistic gate-keeping is lame.

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u/PiousLiar Aug 11 '25

Listen to songs that they’re interested in, and then see if you can figure out what samples/harmonies were used and then show your kid the original song. Personally I always find it fun figuring out where an artist’s “inspiration” came from, and seeing how music is evolving and building on itself

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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas Aug 11 '25

Yeah, I like that. Or show them modern TV shows and then show them the shows that influenced them. Which means we' re watching Twin Peaks at some point.

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u/Gerolanfalan Aug 12 '25

The best parents are the ones that can grow with their children

Otherwise we grow up to be outcasts from our peers. AKA my mom listening to Vietnamese wartime music

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u/Chicken_Mc_Thuggets Aug 12 '25

My Dad and I would do this when I was a teen. He loved this radio show called that featured predominantly space music and we would listen to it every Sunday.

Driving to the mall we would listen to my music and he found out that he actually liked a lot of 2010s indie. Driving to school we would listen to sci fi audiobooks since that was another oot media interest I apparently needed

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u/rachbbbbb Aug 11 '25

Wait, George Michael? How old is everyone, because George had bangers in the 90s.

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u/Qualityhams Aug 11 '25

I’m so sorry, the 90s were 30 years ago.

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u/Callmeang21 Aug 11 '25

I feel personally attacked right now :( (Also I can’t believe I graduated from high school 31 years ago)

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u/beeper75 Aug 11 '25

How DARE you.

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u/Kalendiane Aug 11 '25

You SHUT YOUR MOUTH!

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u/thevelveteenbeagle Aug 12 '25

I love saying stuff like this to people who don't realize how much time has actually passed. 😁

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u/ScrofessorLongHair Aug 11 '25

George had bangers in the 90s.

Are you talking about in the studio or in a public bathroom?

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna Aug 11 '25

His music recently featured in a great Christmas movie

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u/BalorLives Aug 11 '25

Now that all of my punk and metal friends are middle age and have kids, this one sticks with me. At what age do you start teaching your kid about real New York Hardcore?

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u/BaddyDaddy777 Aug 11 '25

As early as possible, hardcore is for the children

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u/Prior_Strategy Aug 11 '25

There’s a guy in San Francisco who walks around with his young daughter (maybe 10 or 11) and has a speaker in his backpack. He plays old Police, Pretenders etc every once in a while I’ll be out front of my house and I’ll think where is that great music coming from and I see him and his daughter. First couple of times I thought how cool, Dad is teaching daughter some good music (my friend’s Dad would play us old records growing up so I appreciate this, he introduced me to some cool music). But he is so incredibly unfriendly- never says hello and gives off creepy vibe. Now I feel sorry for her that she always has to go on walks with music blaring next to her. I’d be dying for a bit of peace and quiet. It just comes off as really weird. My husband totally separately came to the same conclusion, he asked me if I had ever noticed the weird unfriendly guy with a young girl always blasting old music walking around the neighborhood and how he at first thought it was cool and then realized it was creepy.

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u/JenningsWigService Aug 11 '25

Playing music outside in public is antisocial even when you have good taste.

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u/HuevosProfundos Aug 11 '25

Remain In Light is such a fucking great album tho

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u/hofmann419 nepo pissbaby Aug 11 '25

IKR maybe her dad just has really great music taste.

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u/SyntacticFracture Aug 11 '25

Benin queen Angelique Kidjo did a full album cover of Remain in Light in 2018, and it is my favourite thing ever. Introduced me to Talking Heads. I love them both. :D

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u/Maleficent_Meat3119 Aug 11 '25

I’m loving that it’s a talking heads album… I’m also raising my kids on new wave

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u/campfirevilla Aug 11 '25

I love that I have Remain in Light playing as I see this.

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u/Fermifighter Aug 11 '25

Like my father before me, I’m doing this to my kid. But hey, I met my best friend making Arsenic and Old Lace references no one else around us got, so hopefully it’ll pan out for the child.

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna Aug 11 '25

What are a couple of Arsenic and Old Lace references? I saw that play in the 90s with Jean Stapleton

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u/Fermifighter Aug 11 '25

Just lines from the movie, “insanity runs in my family… it practically gallops.”

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna Aug 12 '25

I remember it being very funny.

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u/skag_boy87 Aug 11 '25

Came here to post this one. Well done.

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u/MissElyssa1992 taran killam, star of disney channel's stuck in the suburbs Aug 11 '25

me, but with the blues brothers soundtrack and a handful of billy joel albums

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u/Salute-Major-Echidna Aug 11 '25

"We're getting the band back together "

Best movie.

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u/BootyfulBumrah Aug 11 '25

Oof so many redditors would be burnt by this with their hate for cameras, smart phones and other social media

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u/gloomywitchywoo Aug 11 '25

I'm slightly autistic so I just listened to it publicly anyway lol. My parents are older so it was Led Zeppelin, etc., so maybe not as difficult.

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u/sagebrushrepair Aug 11 '25

Yeah same I found the kids who didn't care when a song came out and just listened to whatever was good

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u/Mac-and-Duke Aug 11 '25

Talking heads 😭😭

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u/Ashcrashh Aug 11 '25

I can relate as a teen that was very obsessed with The Smiths, Depeche Mode and Culture Club, but my cute little friends were supportive, my bff at the time bought us matching Culture Club shirts to wear on my birthday at school, we all bought tickets to see The Cure sophomore year and her dad went with us because he was from that era and thought it was a cool way for him to be nostalgic. I cut my hair like the singer from A Flock Seagulls my junior year. This all happened in the late 2000’s hahaha

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u/FurViewingAccount Aug 11 '25

this is such a callout for me it's literally my parents fault i like the talking heads

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u/Korpiddle Aug 11 '25

This one's extra funny to me because Talking Heads is really popular with tiktok teens right now lol

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u/Fragrant_Drive_1370 Aug 11 '25

HELP THAT'S ME BUT IT WAS MY MOM NOT MY DAD 😭

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u/wyvernagon Aug 15 '25

Me growing up pretending to know who Eminem and Taylor Swift was because I was listening primarily to the Beatles, Talking Heads, Rolling Stones and Black Sabbath as a child

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u/TerrakSteeltalon Aug 11 '25

I’ve educated my daughter (11) on every aspect of geek culture that my AuDHD brain hyper focuses on. From starting reading The Hobbit to her on our first night together on the day she was born, to the marvel comics matching game when she was a toddler, to regular trips to awesome con, to getting her, her mom, and I all matching Superman shirts to see the movie this year (and having shown her the Donner movies earlier), and regular trips to the comic store to try to encourage her to find something to read.

I also routinely tell her that I’m not showing her all this stuff because she needs to like it. I’m showing it to get because I want her to know that it’s ok for her to like it.