I have a lot of friends who listen to different kinds of music, and different ages.
You know how cool it is if it's a musician doing it? (And even cooler if somebody's not a musician and listens to it anyways despite what people say.) Plenty of artists out there listen to everything. K$sha listened to a lot of Led Zeppelin. In interviews, she has a lot of praise for them. Meghan Trainor really admires Frank Sinatra and tries to make her music a similar idea to his songs. Brian Setzer became popular in the 80s but he was listening to mostly 50s rockabilly when he was younger. He revived rockabilly in the early 1980s and then collaborated big band with a distorted electric guitar, with that rockabilly rhythm behind it. He brought back swing. By the way, awesome comedian Norm MacDonald listens to older country music than his generation was into. Also imagine this. If everybody thought how you thought. Even those classical composers that you see on television composing Mozart's music, Beethoven's, Rachminoff's, Chopin's, Bach's, or Vivaldi's music? What would happen to them? They may not do this amazing work. What would have happened to John Williams making the coolest movie soundtracks ever? (Examples are Star Wars, Harry Potter, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, E.T., Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Seven Years in Tibet, and a lot more.) He obviously was influenced by classical music.
Remember, the society you are under (your high school) is a cesspool of people trying to find themselves, following a system that they chose to be slaves under. Everybody is doing that. That whole thing is an illusion. It doesn't matter in the real world of adults. When it's all over, that system will be nothing but ancient history for you. You will be in college and people will look at you like an idiot smoking marijuana in the hallways of college or whatever dumb things that are picked up from high school. What I'm trying to say is, most people there are solely thinking about their education more than in high school. Everybody accepts you! There are no such things as jocks anymore. Those guys are face down on the floor after the competition of trying to get into the National League as best as they could, and only a few can usually go! It's like a crowd all running for a door instead of single file to escape a fire.
There's a lot of issues that you run into being someone you're not. Throwing a rock at a policeman's car window in the middle of the night. Your excuse is because of peer pressure. Another example is trying out drugs when you don't want to. Your fear is being rejected by people who are probably not going to make it to a successful life in college. You'll meet them some years later and they'll be living with their mom or something. They're gonna be overweight or unemployed and they're gonna look at you in so much admiration. And they're gonna say they were very stupid in high school and maybe laugh about it. Most of each person is under an illusion cause they have to stay there. Remember, you are SOMEBODY. Respect yourself. You are not a slave to somebody's thoughts, especially somebody who may prove useless in the future. These people that you have to see everyday are people that bring their problems onto others, and they MAKE this society.
By the way, I'm 19 and when I fell in love with music, it was 60s music and I further explored. Music kept me going. I was sad and depressed and drugged up with focusing medication ever since third grade. I don't know how I'll be here today without it. But nothing wrong with it. 50s, 60s, and 70s are great. Cheap Trick, Uriah Heap (3rd when it comes to hardest rocking bands of the 70s with Black Sabbath and Zeppelin), Bread, Ricky Nelson, Otis Redding, The Del Vikings, The Crew Cuts, Beatles, Beach Boys, Marshall Tucker Band, Johnny Rivers, Frank Sinatra, The Who, T. Rex, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Monkees, Dave Clark Five, The Cars, Carl Perkins, John Denver, Blondie, Mountain, Edgar Winter Group, Thin Lizzy, Rosemary Clooney, The Clash, Bee Gees, The Eagles, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Steve Miller Band, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Bobby Darin, Elton John. Did I get some of them right? Also, I put in some other guys that you may not have heard of so it will help you expand.