A side note on friendship bracelets: they became a Swiftie thing because the Swifties themselves started making and trading them after Swift referred to friendship bracelets in a song “You’re on your own, kid”). It was a bottom-up phenomenon driven by people having fun.
"Art is political, but jumping up and down and screaming that the genres you like are good politics and the genres you don’t are bad politics just makes you look like an ignorant fannish dolt"
Petition to make an exception for country music here. I think we can all agree that genre was a mistake.
On a more serious note, a Bernie bro writing a whiny, misogynistic screws in Horseshoe Theory Quarterly really encapsulates why a lot of people are still wary of Bernie and his fandom.
I noticed back during my college days in the 1990s how "rock" was often a way that white people with openly progressive political views would express their contempt for music by Black people, queer people, or women (with a few accepted "exceptions). Hip-hop, pop, club music were "lesser" than grunge/alternative. It wasn't expressed as personal preference but declarative fact. (Not surprising that Morrissey openly loathed Whitney Houston and Prince, whose name he claimed to not remember.) In reflection, it was a stark difference from how white rock stars of the 1960s would acknowledge or even celebrate Black R&B artists.
Somewhat ironically, in Athens Georgia, you'd more likely hear 1990s hip-hop coming from outside a frat house! That very much surprised me.
All these white men who think white men are so hot should come out of the closet already. They seem really confused, and that would offer clarity and a moral compass (maybe- I have a gay uncle who is a rabid MAGAT). It’s either that or they’ve bought into the “white men are victims of persecution” bullshit. Sometimes I feel like I must be hallucinating, because this is all so improbable, but if I am, you’re all hallucinating with me.
A side note on friendship bracelets: they became a Swiftie thing because the Swifties themselves started making and trading them after Swift referred to friendship bracelets in a song “You’re on your own, kid”). It was a bottom-up phenomenon driven by people having fun.
"Art is political, but jumping up and down and screaming that the genres you like are good politics and the genres you don’t are bad politics just makes you look like an ignorant fannish dolt"
Petition to make an exception for country music here. I think we can all agree that genre was a mistake.
On a more serious note, a Bernie bro writing a whiny, misogynistic screws in Horseshoe Theory Quarterly really encapsulates why a lot of people are still wary of Bernie and his fandom.
I love country music! and a lot of it has good politics.
also a lot of it doesn't, though, alas.
I noticed back during my college days in the 1990s how "rock" was often a way that white people with openly progressive political views would express their contempt for music by Black people, queer people, or women (with a few accepted "exceptions). Hip-hop, pop, club music were "lesser" than grunge/alternative. It wasn't expressed as personal preference but declarative fact. (Not surprising that Morrissey openly loathed Whitney Houston and Prince, whose name he claimed to not remember.) In reflection, it was a stark difference from how white rock stars of the 1960s would acknowledge or even celebrate Black R&B artists.
Somewhat ironically, in Athens Georgia, you'd more likely hear 1990s hip-hop coming from outside a frat house! That very much surprised me.
All these white men who think white men are so hot should come out of the closet already. They seem really confused, and that would offer clarity and a moral compass (maybe- I have a gay uncle who is a rabid MAGAT). It’s either that or they’ve bought into the “white men are victims of persecution” bullshit. Sometimes I feel like I must be hallucinating, because this is all so improbable, but if I am, you’re all hallucinating with me.