So many getting pissed at RATM for "becoming political".
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I'm not sure what machine they were raging against, but it was probably a printer.
They really were the worst back then.
Despite all the shitty things manufacturers (especially printer manufacturers have done), actually using printers has gotten so much easier.
A few years ago you had to sacrifice a goat under a blue moon while reciting the installation instructions in backwards Latin to add a printer to a computer.
Now people can log into the Wi-Fi at my house on their phone for the first time and immediately click "Print" on their phone, pick a printer, and it just fucking works.
No special apps, no drivers, no "have disk" bullshit.
reminder that printers being absolutely dogshit garbage is what gave rise to the free software movement, richard stallman was so sick of dealing with printers that he wrote his own software for it.
printers being awful is a big part of why linux exists, which powers most of the web.
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Especially right wing people.
Relatable. I go a step further by deliberately listening to songs in foreign languages I do not understand, so I do not know the lyrics at all!
Hell yeah, I love that Mexican female pop that sounds like Electronica Cumbia that also features a rap verse. The music videos are about being hot and selling drugs but the vibes are impeccable.
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This is the reason I liked Weird Al as a kid. (I still do) His lyrics were the only ones I could understand.
I was the same way until about five years ago, then for whatever reason I started to hear the lyrics. Pumped-up kicks, I sang that song proudly without any idea what I was saying. Some things started to click and now wow.
When you start noticing, you start seeing some pretty hilarious things.
Like hearing "born in the U.S.A." by Springsteen used at political rallies. lol
Wait, as in you would sing gibberish words that sounded similar to the real words? Or you would sing along to the real words but they would go in one ear and out the mouth without stopping to process the meaning behind the sentence?
Because I've definitely done the former - I think that's how most people sing along to Smells Like Teen Spirit.
I never considered that some people know the right words to sing, but don't process them as language with meaning and intent.
I'd sing the words without any idea what they were messing up a few of the words but fewer than you'd expect. Maybe it's because I was in choir at a young age until early adulthood and in addition to reading notes you read and sing sounds not words. So for example in the chorus of What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor the lyrics are something like 'Way-ho and up she rises,' but on the sheet music it could be 'Waaaaa- ehyyyyy o- HO.' It doesn't look like words, it's sounds. So singing pop music I used to just hear and reproduce the sound without thinking about what I was saying much. Super clear lyrics yeah but even a little hard to hear I didn't used to.
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I recently listened to some songs I liked as a teenager, but I actually paid attention to the lyrics. Holy shit, some of those songs were dark.
I've started paying attention to music more in recent years, and I am shocked how much of it is about or related in some way, to sex. Like it all music made to have sex to? Like is this part of focus group work for songs??
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Careless whisper is such a sexy song with that saxophone. 'Guilty feet have got no rhythm' definitely can't be a poetic device for not being able to get hard because you cheated on your partner.
Have I missed something about pumped up kicks? Because I never thought the song was intended to be in FAVOR of shooting kids.
I mean people seem generally shocked that it's about school shootings at all
I guess. Do a lot of people assume a song would never be based on such a dark or serious topic? I can imagine this being the case if this was the first song with a dark topic a person ever heard, perhaps. Maybe I’m just desensitized because I’ve heard a lot of music with dark themes.
I mean what's surprising isn't that it's a song with a dark theme but the contrast between the radio friendly, sunny sweet beat and melody against the lyrics. Additionally it's just a song that so many people know from hearing it at the supermarket and on the radio without paying particularly attention to it that it's surprising when they find out.
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The song does not favor shooting kids. It about creating awareness on the issue of gun violence and teen mental illness by showing things from the perspective of a school shooter.
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Semi-Charmed Life
As a former addict, it's deceptively catchy and upbeat nature really encapsulates how it'd feel to be that high on my week-long benders. The fact that it hit #1 too- literally at the top.
So, there is some interesting studies on the effect that sadness and depression have on music taste and ability to listen to the lyrics.
Quite literally it breaks down to people who are happy tend to just want to hear music and don't comprehend or want lyrically complicated songs. People who are depressed or at high risk for it tend to be more seeking more complex story telling and will be more aware of the lyrics.
Now why that is would probably win you science grant if you could quantify it. I think it comes back around a bit to "ignorance is bliss" a pretty accurate statement of the world that people that just don't know don't and don't care they don't know are already pretty happy or content with how they know existence to be and don't seek out more. While people more depressed are searching for kindred souls and the feeling of belonging and so listen for more of that empathetic response.
Now one of the other really interesting things of these studies is that heavy death metal music is in the same level as like alternative indie prog-rock for depression listeners, which I think really goes back to that desire to feel emotion and joined experience even if it's just rage or anger.
So, all that to say if you went from just hearing the rhythm to really digging the lyrics check in with your mental health cause it might be that you are seeking out more complex emotions and could be at risk for more serious emotional states.
Me personally I've always listened to the lyrics since I was a child.
It's a bit reductive to say the only emotion in death metal is anger. Death, the band so influential on the genre that it may or may not be named after them depending on who you ask, covers lyrical themes ranging from introspection on the difference between who you are and who you perceive yourself to be, to the existential dread of the Fermi paradox, on the same album.
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That explains why The Doors and Pink Floyd often exhibit lyrical mastery.
"When you're happy you enjoy the music. When you're sad you understand the lyrics." - Frank Ocean.
Just happened to me with "I Could Have Lied" by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Sometimes I'm worried that the J-pop I listen to has questionable lyrics, but then I remember that song about falling in love with a T-Rex and that other song about making poor people fight to the death and cannibalizing the loser and think, there's no way this can be worse than that
But then sometimes an absolute banger turns out to be about suicide, oops
I present to you this song, which apparently based off a real story in which a girl live streamed herself getting into increasingly dangerous situations.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - If Not Now, Then When?
Listen to it without the lyrics and see if you can catch it, the high pitch vocals are sort of hard to understand. Then watch along with the lyrics, both the song and music video really change once you know what it's about.
My interpretation
My interpretation is that the black hole represents fossil fuels and deforestation. We discovered what we could do with them, became reliant to the point we're unable to throw them away, and now we can only watch as animals, trees, and loved ones get sucked in by the consequences.
God that is so me. I've been listening to music for decades and have no idea what the lyrics are, for pretty much any song ever written. It's all percieved as sounds to me.
Glad to know I'm not alone.
I think that's why I dislike the major of country music. Country music is all (mostly) about story telling and I couldn't care less about what is being said in music.
That's a generous interpretation of the situation. I think it's more likely that it just sucks. There's good country music out there but most of what gets played on your local country radio station is shallow music for shallow people. Formulaic, uninspired, and boring as hell.
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Clawfinger - Little Baby.
I sent this to my wife, she heard it and said it was good. I told her to listen again, but also listen to the lyrics. Suddenly she didn't like it.
Yes absolutely I didn’t know the lyrics to fetus eater was horrifying!
There's this advert for Freeview TV that uses the instrumentals from Enola Gay by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. I don't know if anyone intentionally decided to have a song about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki associated with their TV streaming company or if there's some exec out there that doesn't know what the song is about wanted for the advert and everyone else was too afraid to tell them no.
Literally me
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