How will you teach kids if the bass if the songs here are like a lifetime length songs. From 1960- 2025? How will you enjoy playing bass when the songs here are far older than you even at 40. Unlike piano drums guitar at least the common or traditional songs taught at school can be played until now. My son in high school enjoy more songs on you tube than the lessons here because of the songs are too old. They dont like police, journey, guns, led zeppelin or worst older than. its too old too practice song in this age.
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I would have to image the youngsters that are truly interested in playing an instrument will find contemporary heroes/role models and players/songs to emulate. Even if some of us crusty olā geezers find this music is pretty whack, itās the soundtrack to THEIR lives. As the bands you cite are to ours.
I have watched many videos from Julia, where she plays mostly contemporary stuff, even when there is not (real) bass on the original track. She also occasionally throws in something more āclassicā; sheās clearly well educated, has mad chops and therefore knows where to find the Good Stuff.
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My kids are exposed to many different kinds of music.
Yesterday we were having a musical trivia here at home and my 11 year old asks me what was the song from AC/DC that had āloveā in the Titleā¦ and me jokingly start singing āI was made for loving youā by Kiss, she said āThatās Kissā. She was later, trying to play āDream a little dream of meā by Mammas and Pappas, on bass.
Youngest(8), was / is trying to learn āHelp!ā from the Beatles.
Againā¦ I think everything is due to exposure. They know their charts songs, but they are exposed to many genres at home, mostly older music. Let them hear the songs, but donāt force., talk openly about the differences and why you like and donāt like. Play games with them, try to identify their songsā¦ make it fun.
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Thatās beautiful, man. Youāre doing your kids a great service by exposing them to music, irrespective of its era. 
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Trying my best.
My 11y old does scare me at singingā¦ she has a crazy developed voice and it got so much better(both of them did, but 11 grew a lot more, vocal wise) that we had to find singing lessons for them.
On top of that I help with drums / bass via Josh and also Drumeoā¦ wife helps with Piano / voice(I canāt sing to save my life).
What they do with thatā¦ itās their choice. 
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Great job, man. Keep up the good work. 
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Hereās the 11 year old that the sound of P.S.Y.C.H.O.T.I.C. by The Warning.
Recorded on phoneā¦ with too much ambient noiseā¦ 
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Not sure how to respond to OP other than by saying both of these things are true:
- There is more good music being made right now than ever before
- All that older music has tons of great stuff too, that is equally good
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As long as there are teenage girls there will be teenage boys who want to play guitar and that includes bass
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That list sure falls into a very narrow genre and time band.
Iām fairly certain that The Police, Queen, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, and Steely Dan are more popular now than they were when I was in high school in the 90ās.
As a litmus test, Iām looking at Target and what band t-shirts they have IN STOCK at my local store, and who theyāre selling them to.
In order of appearance, they have: Def Leppard, Hendrix, Guns N Roses, Nirvana, Metallica, AlterEgo (a KPop band), Sublime, Led Zeppelin, Tupac, Johnny Cash, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, and Kiss
ā¦all being modeled by - and therefore marketed to - teenage girls.
As for liking older styles of musicā¦ every heard Laufey? The kids these days love her, and sheās basically singing mid-century modern. Like early 60ās bossa nova style.
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I think if he likes to play bass it will come to him if he likes or want to play bass.
My 11 year old would sing anything from harry connick jr to Vulfpeck, and whatever the current top 40s. It seems like she could sing any songs playing on the background of YouTube shorts when my wifeās flicking through them.
My nephew is a big huge 80s and 90s music Aha, Depeche Mode, Yes, synth heavy kinda songs itās the music his dad loves.
Lately, Iāve been spending hours each day listening to music as it helps with my recovery from Diabetic Retinopathy I canāt really use both eyes and itās been taxing me when the vision is impaired throwing on a headphones or IEMs on and close my eyes makes the headache goes away.
One thing I found is the current music top 40s are really poorly mixed. They have so little dynamics and the vocals are pretty weird, many if not most sounds like Cher, 
they are quite technical but has no soul. YouTube may not be a bad choice to find raw music from everyday talents nowadays.
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Music is timeless no matter how old you are. For example my 13 year old son is in a traditional jazz group and plays sax and banjo. Most of the songs are from his grandmotherās childhood but he still loves them.
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Sheās good.
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I feel like Top 40ās matter less today than they used to. Back in the 20th century, everyone was listening to much the same things on radio. The top 40 defined what EVERYONE heard.
It seems like now, music tastes are much more diverse and āthe kids these daysā are finding and sharing music on different platforms that us old folks arenāt tuned into.
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Very nice. My 10-year-old daughter sings like her old man, which is not good at all.
But she does enjoy music, whatever the genre. As you said, exposure is key.
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I actually think we live in a golden age of music.
I have a 10 year old. We play a game in the car, we think of a topic, then have to pick songs with that topic in the title, for example animals, weather, places, colours, whatever you want.
Itās great fun as we end up listening to all sorts of music. My wife even threw in some Vivaldi on the last long car journey! The thing Iāve noticed about my daughter is that she seems to know so many songs, old and current. I donāt think she even sees older stuff as old, itās just music that she either likes or dislikes. She loves Duran2 (poor girl gets it played at her by me 
) and her favourite solo artists are Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish (she ādarkā), and she also seems to like Alice Merton. Whatās great is that sheās introducing me to stuff I donāt know. Some I like, some I donātā¦
Whatās different, for me, is that my parents derided popular music of the 80s (my era). I am determined not to deride contemporary stuff.
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great opportunity for you to get into the songs your son likes. Play those.
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This is something we do as well!
Also kinda a ācomplete the sentenceā music style.
Every time I sing, a fairy genocide happens.
The only thing I can do reasonably decent is growlā¦
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