You've got to find God at some point or its all over, it seemsthe beastie boys did that. went to tibet to meet the dali lama. one of them married a riot grrrrrrl.
You've got to find God at some point or its all over, it seemsthe beastie boys did that. went to tibet to meet the dali lama. one of them married a riot grrrrrrl.
Yeah, Ad-Rock married Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill - MCA was the political one though. It was him who got really into Tibet and the other two just went along with it, iirc.the beastie boys did that. went to tibet to meet the dali lama. one of them married a riot grrrrrrl.
webeschatology wrote this^ in the catalog hip hop thread but just gonna respond to it herenu metal is considered cool in alot of circles these days
Very long post can't read it just now bug will do later I'm sure it's goodwebeschatology wrote this^ in the catalog hip hop thread but just gonna respond to it here
I think part of this nu-metal thing is because the young-ish people directing what's cool right now are people who were little children when nu metal/linkin park/deftones etc was popular.
im talking under 10 years old, say
they were young enough not to be worrying too much about what was cool at that time. but they heard it, liked it and now associate it with their childhoods. so the love for it now is genuine - it's not an ironic, cynical attempt to make something shit seem cool. they can just look past how lame it seemed at the time to other people, because it was part of their childhood and they're attached to it.
the same thing happened in the 2000s with people who were small kids when 80s synthpop was around. they didn't view toto - africa as corporate elevator music like the cool people of that time did - it just reminded them of a summer when they were 8 years old or whatever, and the synths sounded nice
what's been unravelled in both cases is actually a lot of the superficial elements surrounding boths musics that made people malign them at the time. the people who received them uncynically and without consideration of cultural meaning or importance or any of that baggage (ie small children) just heard it as music
that's my simple theory for what drives it anyway but of course when it becomes cool and revived people then join in for all kinds of reasons including irony, bandwagonning, etc.
This is the difference I think limbo is trying to scratch out. There's none of that (what I would call) ironic distance with myspazchicsorta/kinda related: my cousin was a classmate of Shepard Fairey at RISD, she says he was just a typical nerdy kid who decided to plaster downtown Providence with his "Andre the Giant has a Posse/7'4", 520 lb" stickers. The rest is history.
is this the ultimate wanker sportin the States, we also have the skater offshoot: snowboarding. a friend in Burlington is married to a former sales rep for Burton, all the snowboard kids were like richer versions of skaters (since the gear and lift tickets are more expensive than just buying a skateboard). wiseaases annoying skiers on the slopes, usually potheads.
Very suspicious activity. See also surfing.is this the ultimate wanker sport
is this the ultimate wanker sport
Also not skint.could be, but lots of the kids who are into it are proper fearless burnout types.
Also not skint.