fandomhigh | Popular Culture [November 8, 4th Period]

There was a flatscreen TV mounted on the board.

"We've talked classic rock now let's venture to pop music. Pop music is another branch of a genre called popular music, actually pop music is one of the more recognizable form of music today. An' it's really not that complicated some people even refer to pop music as bubblegum 'cause of its simplicity. Usually the lyrics are often about romance and heartbreak and well..." she arched an eyebrow, "sex."

"The 1980s produced one of the most number of pop music and you know this because of the hair, shoulder pads an' the very purple eyeshadow but mostly, because of this," Rose turned on the TV and a group of men with mullets proceeded to sing, "by the way, this is one of the more popular '80s band back then... they're called any guesses? If you think it has anything to do with the word 'pop' you're not wrong."

As soon as the song was done Rose clicked off the telly. "Short trivia, the eighties also saw the birth of a network so crucial to our culture it spawned a whole new lifestyle, an' that's the MTV. Somethin' we'll be discussin' soon and I hope you read up about the subject. An' one of your projects would be to create an MTV of your own... so..." Rose looked at them, "I hope you do take that class seriously."

Rose tilted her head and studied her class, "You lot have been in this time period for months now so I'm gonna put your knowledge about this era to the test... what are the top ten pop music artists to date (to date bein' early 1990s to... well today. Any question's you'll be havin' I'll be at the back."

(OOC: ~~Please wait for~~ OCD up. Slow Play is Life!)

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Blackheart thought for a moment, trying to place some of the most annoying bands he possibly could. After all, if he hated them, there was a good chance that misguided mortals everywhere liked them enough to make them big.

"The Backstreet Boys. Or N*Sync. Or those New Kids On The Block people."

Boy bands. Annoying enough to be popular.

"New Kids on the Block... Blimey, I've quite forgotten about them." She looked at Blackheart slyly, "Bet that was your favorite band, innit?"

Blackheart stared at Rose somewhat incredulously.

"I do hope you're joking," he insisted. "I only know about them because of all of the insane fangirls that we keep locked away in the 'Special Hell.'"

He wasn't making any indication that he was actually kidding about 'Special Hell.' But with Blackheart, could you ever really be sure?

"Hey, you never know, I mean with a name like Blackheart... it's either boy bands or emo punk bands."

Blackheart considered for a moment, and then he shrugged.

"We get a lot of My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy fans in Special Hell, too. They're slightly more tolerable than the screaming New Kids fanatics."

"Fall Out Boy, y'know I never got into them, are they really that good?" She then tilted her head, "I can really see you as a Chemical Romance fan."

"I wouldn't know if Fall Out Boy is good or not," Blackheart confessed. "For all I hear about the music from up here, I haven't had the chance to do much listening to them. Though apparently there's a video involving monkeys that might appeal to some of the stranger demographics out there. And they're supposedly pretty." He shrugged his shoulders. "An idiot acquaintance seems absolutely positive that I'm Gerard Way, so I really shouldn't be surprised that you think I'd like My Chem also."

He wasn't going to mention that yes, he did in fact own the Black Parade album.

"It's the hair and the black and the large amounts of eyeliner." She said with a nod. "And a band with pretty boys and monkeys does sound intriguing."

...

"But I don't wear eyeliner."

He could see how perhaps to an untrained mortal eye, it might look like he was wearing eyeliner. But no. No, he wasn't. Eyeliner was for emo kids, transvestites, and Gerard Way. Who possibly was both. Blackheart didn't much care.

Rose leaned in, "Huh, you're right, you're not wearing an eyeliner. Must mean you were born emo."

Yes, Rose knows she's playing with fire but what could be more fun than ribbing her students once in a while?

Wow. Blackheart had never dreamed he'd meet a mortal who wanted so badly to burn.

It actually threw him off enough that he couldn't quite focus on burning her, anyhow.

"... I wasn't exactly 'born,' either."

"Suppose you sprung fully formed from your father's brow then? You must've been quite a headache."

Blackheart grinned toothily.

"As far as I'm concerned, I was never headache enough."

Rose smirked, "That's a way to go, I actually like that about kids and hey, if you give Satan one more headache I think I like you even more, Blackie."

Blackheart was smirking even more, now.

"He prefers to go by 'Mephistopheles.' So call him 'Satan' some more. That ought to help the headache along."

"I can see why, not the classiest name that, Lucifer had it better." Rose said, "Oh, did you ever meet the bloke?"

"Lucifer? No. Never got around to it." He gave his shoulders a bit of a dismissive shrug. "Probably for the best. One incarnation of my father is more than enough for me."

"The version I had was trapped in a doomed planet an' chained there before we sent him over the blackhole," she told him, "It was fun."

Blackheart might have actually looked somewhat impressed at that!

"I'm almost sorry I missed that," he stated. Except he wasn't. Because Blackheart was never sorry for anything. Ever.

"Quite a thing to see, really." She said, "one of the most impressive things I've ever done too."

"There aren't many people who can boast casting him into darkness," Blackheart noted. "I wonder how easy it would be to do the same to my father. A second fall would be certain to keep him out of my business."

"Whatever floats your boat, Blackie. I take it there's no such thing as familial bonds for you lot?"

"I'd prefer if there wasn't," Blackheart said with a scowl. "We're not as lucky as that, unfortunately."

"Families," Rose offered, "anyway, good effort on you, Blackheart."

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