How do I get through to this dumb dumb?
So I go to a school where we get to play music. Like actually a band where we play all sorts of music like Linkin Park, Deftones, System Of A Down, Tool. The program is split up into 2 different classes. One is the rock band class where we get to play almost whatever we want. The whole point of the rock band class is to teach you how to play with a band. Then there's the show band. The show band is meant to be the professional class where you play pop, classic rock, top 100 songs, and anything else famous. Basically the crowd pleasing class. Ever since I joined the class all I've wanted to play was metal. And there was this constant pushback from my teacher. Let me tell you about my teacher. He plays in a pop/disco cover band and plays for mainly people that are 50+ years old. So of course there's pushback from him. Whatever that's fine we all have our opinion. We played One Step Closer by Linkin Park for the whole school and there was a moshpit and we had the loudest reaction from a crowd that the band had ever heard. So we're like oh yeah people like metal lets play more metal. So we sent out a survey full of all sorts of genres, artists, bands, basically everything you'd expect on a music survey. The top results were hard rock and metal. We started pumping out that good hard rock because that's what the people in the survey said. Everytime we tried something new and hard our teacher would basically tell us this sucks and it won't work or it's not popular enough. So we decided to do one of the most popular metal songs of all time. Chop Suey. 2 BILLION streams across all streaming services. Guess what he says. SOAD is a niche band and that Chop Suey Isn't popular. What do I say for him to understand that people like hard rock and metal music?