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Crass 4Eva! Anarchy and freedom!
I always smirk at the line from their most famous song:
"**** you I won't do what you tell me"
OK boys, I'm sure you won't.
I never had my rebellious angsty phase (yay trance and clubbing), but Killing In The Name Of has and always will be an absolute banger, hypocritical lyrics or not.
I never had my rebellious angsty phase (yay trance and clubbing), but Killing In The Name Of has and always will be an absolute banger, hypocritical lyrics or not.
I'm currently watching 'The Defiant Ones' on Netflix and it's interesting to see and hear just how (relatively) normal Dr. Dre and NWA et al were while they were growing up.
No doubt they did see and experience a lot of drugs and violence, and I'm sure Compton wasn't the nicest place to live. However, from their lyrics, you would think that their day-to-day lives were literally like how it's portraited in 'Boyz in the Hood'.
Even the famous interview where Eazy-E is waving an assault rifle around the studio, it turns out it was a paintball gun…
I'm currently watching 'The Defiant Ones' on Netflix and it's interesting to see and hear just how (relatively) normal Dr. Dre and NWA et al were while they were growing up.
No doubt they did see and experience a lot of drugs and violence, and I'm sure Compton wasn't the nicest place to live. However, from their lyrics, you would think that their day-to-day lives were literally like how it's portraited in 'Boyz in the Hood'.
Even the famous interview where Eazy-E is waving an assault rifle around the studio, it turns out it was a paintball gun…
they are the ones terrified of any opportunity brought by Trump and Brexit
Tbh i reckon the whole teenage rebellion thing is simply a symptom of that being the age when kids start being exposed to a much wider input of ideas than they've previously recieved from conventional parent/teacher authority figures and they realise that there are other ways of thinking.
In terms of the music i think it's a case of yes there's hypocrisy to some extent but at the same time these bands have to accept the reality that they aren't actually going to affect any kind of big change quick enough to make a difference to them so they end up having to play the system.
I think its its good that these bands at least inspire people to think about their ideals and decide for themselves rather than blindly accept things.