• Tigbitties@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think modern country even uses metaphors anymore. Before anyone comes at me, I’m well awair that there’s some fantactic country writers out there.

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      1 year ago

      That’s because modern country is squarely focused on (far) right leaning people and they are utterly deaf, dumb and blind to any sort of metaphor, sarcasm and subtlety.

      It’s why these pricks go nuts for songs like Killing in the Name, not realizing it’s a song that explicitly hates on them saying stuff like “some of those who work forces, are the same that BURN CROSSES”.

      They only see and hear that title and have no fucking clue what it and the rest of the song is actually about.

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          1 year ago

          Way back when Nirvana, Tool, RATM and all the great early 90’s bands were coming up, there was another.

          A dingy Swedish band named Clawfinger.

          They had a debut, self released album named Deaf Dumb Blind and it’s most well known song was named removed.

          The song sprung outrage with the conservative right in the US, because back then they pretended they were against racism and the use of that word.

          Clawfinger was similar in lyrical meaning with Rage Against the Machine, most of their songs were protest songs.

          These are the lyrics.

          (guess I’ll link it as I can’t find how to do spoiler tags …)

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            1 year ago

            Rember when Cobain wrote “rape me” becuase he had to hit people in the head with the message because the song “polly” went right over it?