That’s it. That’s the post. I can’t stop making the connection to those songs. 
One of the main arguments for why ”cancel culture” is bullshit is that all of this still gets played, even from people like Steven Tyler who we know for sure are pedos.
How many rich predators on
's guest lists have seen a day of prison for what they did?
And then I came of age listening to metalcore and deathcore. Lotta similar shit. Just SA and DV allegations/charges left and right. Warped Tour was a mistake. They knew and they didn’t do shit. Not to mention so many of the lyrics were about raging at your ex girlfriend or some similar implied relationship.
“Woodstock 99” was a nightmare of utter fucking hogs being SV enjoyers and blatant misogynists, even outright attacking women on stage, too.
Did you watch the documentary about WS99 from a few years ago? Riveting, in a sort of train wreck way
Let’s just say I had a close enough experience at the time that the documentary would be a very hard watch, full of reminders.
Not to mention so many of the lyrics were about raging at your ex girlfriend or some similar implied relationship
Early 2000s emo stuff was similarly
to me because a lot of lyrics had a misogynistic aspect.Not entirely relevant to this, but I remember when the singer of the band Champion was revealed to be a child predator.
Anyone know if prog rock has any problematic elements? I already know Rush are turbo cringe libertarian Ayn Rand
Filmmakers, too.
Oh yes, especially some kinds of filmmakers: the “auteur” creeps that get special cultural license to be creeps for decades with no consequences as an assumed cost of doing business with them.
I’m just happy that Kubrick seems to not have been one of them. Even when adapting very dark stories where he could have tried to get away with “but that’s the age of the characters in the original” he had the good sense to age-up troublingly-young characters. There’s a particularly notorious scene in the original A Clockwork Orange novel that he handled perfectly in the adaptation. Anyone familiar with the movie knows the scene where Alex has a consensual threesome with these two adult women.
But in the original novel, they’re both 10 years old and not consenting whatsoever.
As far as I know, David Lynch was the same way: I read that he was kind and patient with anyone that was going to be in a scary scene and only took actors as far as they could handle and they spoke well of him after those movies.
Fuck Hitchcock though.
Fuck Hitchcock though.
Uh-oh. What’s the context?
It was no secret (and he actually bragged about it “auteur” style) that he abused and tormented people on set (in particular women) to ostensibly get them emotionally shaken enough to suit his “vision.”
During “The Birds,” for example, he arranged it so a frozen chicken was thrown at the car window of one of the lead actresses as she was rolling up to the set!
David Lynch unfortunely also signed the letter in favor of Roman Polanski (No idea if he regrets supporting it like Natalie Portman did).
He’s also adamently a proponent and supporter of Transcendental Meditation and has converted half the actors he’s worked with. Which as an individual practice isnt’t a problem, but the organization behind it is a huge scam started by a predatory rolls royce yogi who Lynch personally knew. The same guy who made The Beatles leave India because he creeped on their girlfriends.
I half forgive him for this because I think he probably doesnt read literally anything on the internet and has had the privilege of the organization sheltering him from any of their wrongdoing. Unless a friend of his personally told him, he might not have any idea.
FUCK. I had no idea.
Listening to the song “My Sharona”
noticing the lyrics and thinking about them for 1/16th of a second
On second thoughts, listen to Weird Al’s"my bologna" instead?
Don’t listen to ‘je suis un rock star’ dawg
I remember “je suis” being said by edgelords in reference to specific underaged anime characters for a while in the internet wild.
Damn, I hear “je suis” and think of the Jonathan Coulton song, “Je Suis Rick Springfield.”
Assuming you’re talking about the Bill Wyman song, that isn’t even the worst thing about him.
This is why I call my partner “babe”, so people think I’m just calling them a pig.
Let me just grab my glasses real quick
“Bring Ms. Piggy in for questioning, too.”
That’ll do pig
Things to say at a cop’s funeral
It just makes the boomers whole “forever young” ethos all the more creepy. They really did become the generation that had a mid-life crisis that never ended and made it everyone’s problem.
Oh yeah, and with all the shit about Diddy, Drake, Epstein, Mike Jeffries, (probably) Trump and Musk. How many of these creeps are our neighbors but the only thing that ultimately stopped them is the fact they know even they would be caught?
It just makes the boomers whole “forever young” ethos all the more creepy. They really did become the generation that had a mid-life crisis that never ended and made it everyone’s problem.
I used to think “mid-life crisis” was an inevitability when I saw it presented on screens when I was a kid: that someday I’d be in my 40s and need to be in denial about it and have a convertible and a leisure suit and try to hit on women half my age.
That was just boomers telling on themselves. I’m well into my 40s and that didn’t happen, not even in a “wearing neon and spiking my hair 80s style” way.
Can’t blame you. Feel the same way when I hear “babygirl” in a song
It’s very offputting to me too.
I immediately thought of Jethro Tull’s Aqualung
Can’t find it anymore but there was a short called like “every classic rock song before 1985” that went
Girl, you’re 15 years old
And you’re beautiful, and I’m
35
Classic rockers can’t say “baby” anymore, only “mama.” Because woke.
I probably took more psychic damage from being bombarded by classic rock at the auto parts where I worked than I realize.
I used to just nod along to music played by boomers I was in the car with at the time and the more I look back the more fucked up so many of those songs were.
Many of them have also revealed themselves to be suffering from transphobic brain rot, like Twisted Sister, Kiss and Alice Cooper. The same guys who were genderbending as part of “glam rock” and wore make-up, feminine outfits, and “challenged gender norms”, are now whining about trans people being a fad and parents allowing kids to freely express their gender identity.
Boomers really are not okay.I guess I shouldn’t be surprised considering how that scene was rife with sexism and misogyny. Those things always seem to go hand in hand with transphobia. It’s just fucking ironic how chuds are now embracing these dweebs because of their transphobia, while 40 years ago these same artists were considered satanic and a danger to children by reactionaries.
How can you mention transphobic brain rot but not include Aerosmith
Say what
It’s the subject of one of their most famous songs
Oh yeah, I forgot about them.
It’s just fucking ironic how chuds are now embracing these dweebs because of their transphobia, while 40 years ago these same artists were considered satanic and a danger to children by reactionaries.
I have an idea for a trolling bit. I think you know where I’m going with this.
I mean it sucks, but it kinda makes sense in a twisted way that the cis guys who embraced gender-bending culture in order to be predatory are now worried that that’s all the transgender movement is. Its all projection, like the homophobic in the closey religious types that turn out to be massive deviants.
When you notice the sheer number of “classic rock” songs that are explicitly about creeping on children it’s hard to go back. The stories about groups like Led Zeppelin are disturbing
I may have to give up entirely on the genre; there just isn’t much left that I wouldn’t feel disgusted by listening to it and picking up the subtext that was always there.
