Greatchickenman wrote:Each Dethklok video is better than every greenday video combined
Amen to that.
MusashiEX wrote:You hear music. You don't look at it. Nor the people making it.
Right, right. All European metal bands are made up of creepy 40 year old guys with mullets, so that's a fair statement. What I was TRYING to get at is that Green Day's music has become the same kind of canned "disaffected youth" punk music that really isn't relevant to my generation. And part of the problem is that the members of Green Day are from a completely different generation. I don't know about the 80s and early 90s, but the middle-class white Americans who worship this kind of music don't exactly have the right to carry that disaffected tag.
An excerpt from my
emo rant:
These people like to woefully go on about all the troubles in their lives, when in fact they're all a bunch of spoiled idiotic middle-class white Americans who've basically had their entire lives paved for them. They're so spoiled that they interpret the slightest obstacle in front of them as some sort of life-ruining blockade that they can whine about it.
Now replace "whine about it" with "blame authority".
Don't get me wrong, Highschool Administrators are among the stupidest people in the universe, but the kind of issues that these people interpret as challenges is my mind-numbingly stupid and selfish: "Oh no, he took my cellphone away cause it went of in class FUCK AUTHORITY RAH RAH RAH! I'll listen to my Green Day, because THEY understand me!!". And as for bitching about the government? Please. Politicians are 99% scumbag, but instead of channeling all that angst into writing broken record punk songs, why not put it into getting a college degree, or something that can ACTUALLY make a difference? I'm sure Bush doesn't have any Green Day on his ipod, so why all the bitching?
I realize dissent is supposed to be a fundamental part of democracy, but Washington DC is full of bitter, stodgy old people who hate youthful exuberance. So instead of thinking that feeling angry over politics is some kind of useful activity, these punk worshipers need to learn tor resign themselves to the pursuit of knowledge and skilled labor jobs. Now I know this is difficult, because it, *GASP*, actually requires work. But I'd rather bust my ass off and get a decent job than sit around, complain, and pretend this is the 60s.
What? Oh yeah, the music. Yeah, I already said it. Power/Prog/Symphonic Metal rock about 9000 times more than indie/punk/ska. And don't make me enact my Right of Inerrancy to prove it.