Green Day Nominated for being Politically Conscious?
Conscious? These twerps? Give me a f#$kin break!
Read this guy, he put it into better words....
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From today's Washington Post, in an article on the VMA nominations:
Green Day's eight nominations include six for their socially conscious song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and two for the "American Idiot," which also is the name of their critically acclaimed album.
Socially conscious? I don't own the album, but last December I vacationed with a family member who did, and listened to it on the plane. Catchy tunes, no doubt. But nothing short of an all-out Bush-Bash. Why don't we examine these 'socially conscious' lyrics.
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah
Wow...how deep! Granted, Boulevard of Broken Dreams isn't as much of an outright Bush-Bash as American Idiot.
Don't want to be an American idiot. Don't want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mindf**k America.
Well maybe I'm the faggot America. I'm not a part of a redneck agenda. Now everybody do the propaganda. And sing along in the age of paranoia.
Socially conscious? More like socially retarded. I just hate all of these singers and bands and actors who think we care what they have to say. I use this analogy often on my radio show, and I'll give it to you here.
Actors and singers are like prostitutes. I pay them for a service, to entertain me, and when they're done providing that service I don't want to hear word one from them. I'm paying them for a service, not for their opinion. However, they seem to think that since we fork over dough for their stuff that it automatically means we care about them and their opinion. Not so, Streisand and company. Get on the stage, sing your songs and leave.
Specifically towards Green Day, it's a shame that perfectly good tunes have to be ruined by politicizing the lyrics.
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I enjoyed this guy, great rant. And very true. I want a political expert, I'll flip to Fox News or the net or turn on News and Talk Radio. I want some asinine assessment on the world by a singer, gimme a celebrity.
Enjoy MTV, you lemmings. I'll be watching something else that Thursday or Friday, if I'm not out.
Bu-bye!
Read this guy, he put it into better words....
HAT TIP: http://www.museumofleftwinglunacy.com/
From today's Washington Post, in an article on the VMA nominations:
Green Day's eight nominations include six for their socially conscious song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and two for the "American Idiot," which also is the name of their critically acclaimed album.
Socially conscious? I don't own the album, but last December I vacationed with a family member who did, and listened to it on the plane. Catchy tunes, no doubt. But nothing short of an all-out Bush-Bash. Why don't we examine these 'socially conscious' lyrics.
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah
Wow...how deep! Granted, Boulevard of Broken Dreams isn't as much of an outright Bush-Bash as American Idiot.
Don't want to be an American idiot. Don't want a nation under the new media. And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mindf**k America.
Well maybe I'm the faggot America. I'm not a part of a redneck agenda. Now everybody do the propaganda. And sing along in the age of paranoia.
Socially conscious? More like socially retarded. I just hate all of these singers and bands and actors who think we care what they have to say. I use this analogy often on my radio show, and I'll give it to you here.
Actors and singers are like prostitutes. I pay them for a service, to entertain me, and when they're done providing that service I don't want to hear word one from them. I'm paying them for a service, not for their opinion. However, they seem to think that since we fork over dough for their stuff that it automatically means we care about them and their opinion. Not so, Streisand and company. Get on the stage, sing your songs and leave.
Specifically towards Green Day, it's a shame that perfectly good tunes have to be ruined by politicizing the lyrics.
Enjoy my writing? My blog is at: http://www.RapidPolitics.com
I enjoyed this guy, great rant. And very true. I want a political expert, I'll flip to Fox News or the net or turn on News and Talk Radio. I want some asinine assessment on the world by a singer, gimme a celebrity.
Enjoy MTV, you lemmings. I'll be watching something else that Thursday or Friday, if I'm not out.
Bu-bye!
posted by NDwalters @ 10:37 AM
2 Comments:
At 2:06 PM,
NDwalters said…
Sad thing is this. Green Day thinks THEY ARE EXPERTS. They're like frickin our age. I am not listening to their crap on crap.
To quote one great commentator: Singers, shut up and sing! You wanna get political, run for office! Go activist, but stop trying to infuse the two!
Wise, wise, person. When Linda Ronstadt got all preachy at her concert saying Michael Moore was a patriot and saying America was Nazi Germany, she should have expected everyone to walk out, some boos, and a couple of whisky sours smashed onto the ground and on stage.
Freedom of Speech? How about our freedom to get pissed off?
At 6:01 AM,
NDwalters said…
Very true, I disagree with some points, but you remain concise and garalous as usual.
Rant? Rant? Don't make me actually post a RANT. I usually say, RANT TIME.
They're usually amusing.
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