Absolutely mortified. Spotify generated a playlist for me titled "2000s Dad Rock Mix". And it fucking slaps.

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for example?

@floppyplopper we open with Muse, then straight into a bit of Green Day, now on Fall Out Boy (who I would call distinctly un-dad, but apparently I am a 2000s dad)

Here is a quick sampler of the wall to wall bangers, pretty much none of which I would classify as dad rock, but I would say that because I'm a 2000s dad.

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@celesteh by popular request, I have threaded in a screenshot

@stavvers lol my dad's rock mix, like, Just played Hysteria

@sierra it's probably the most dad-coded of the lot

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ah. most of this completely passed me by.

@floppyplopper truly, the 2000s-est dad

@stavvers I had a real rush of perspective a few years ago when I made a comment about the Download headliners having changed from dad rock to all the bands we loved as teenagers and then suddenly realised. Congrats on your dadhood.

@stavvers Dad Rock to me is Elvis and the Beatles. I R Teh Oldz.

@cstross I mean I'd kind of think that too, maaaaybe Rolling Stones too

@stavvers die young or live long enough to become dad rock 😅

@stavvers As a literal 2000’s dad, I’d classify those as “that new fangled nonsense the kids are listening to because they don’t know good metal”.

Then I’d yell at a cloud.