Trivia, but too funny to pass up.
There’s plenty of ahem ahem Chuck Berry HELLO – and I would add Motown I mean come on – but also when did Obama ever say young white men (or any other people) aren’t allowed to have angst? When did he ever say anything that even vaguely resembled it?
I will say this: a lot of rock & roll is about what whores women are. That aspect can get pretty annoying.
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9 responses to “International white male angst day”
If that’s what it’s supposed to be about I wasted a lot of money buying the wrong kind of music.
Most of the music I listen to is about how evil Jesus is. Is that white boy angst (and I am no “boy” anymore. Except deep down inside my trans-chronological self)
N/P: Tom Waites-The Black Rider.
Vile though he is, Ted Nugent has never struck me as someone for whom music is a vehicle to express angst.
Black people invented rock ‘n roll. But whatever.
It’s not anything to do with Obama. It’s just that the 1990s eventually ended.
I am tickled by the coincidence of what I was listening to when I hit this page – A Touch of Evil, by Judas Priest. Is heavy metal dead too, or is it just the old-time rock ‘n’ roll that Bob Seger was singing about?
@Lady Mondegreen – #4 – if I recall you like podcasts, and this is one of my favorites. It’s a two-part episode on the roots and origins of rock n’ roll music:
https://ourfakehistory.com/index.php/season-3/episode-53-who-invented-rock-n-roll-part-i/
And even punk, which is what this guy was probably thinking, was not dominated by white males as completely as we’re supposed to believe. Many women have been punkers and that’s a history lesson in itself.
What a load of tosh. Most impactful music is about angst of some variety. Harsh and dissonant are often assumed to be synonymous with angry, which is patently false. Take He Said Eternity, by In This Moment for example. Maria literally wrote the song for her son; to call it angry is just willfully ignorant. Electric Sunrise, by Plini, is chock full of dissonance, but I defy anyone to seriously call it angry. (Here’s a deep dive on this track and why it’s so great.)
And since I’m already past the “requires moderation” link limit, here are some more songs that are totes angry/angsty.
Over the Hills and Far Away, by Nightwish
Physical Education, by Animals as Leaders
Atlas Novus, by Scale the Summit
King of Those Who Know, by Cynic
Language I: Intuition, by The Contortionist
Re #8
I have little exposure to rock music, but in general I would agree that dissonance by itself does not mean angry. Sometimes it’s funny,, sometimes it’s color, sometimes it’s just part of the texture. Dissonance in a context mostly devoid of dissonance might be shocking, I’d grant.
I don’t think I’d agree that most music is “about” anything, but that’s a different discussion.