Message from @Vigil
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It was censorship and disagreement. But the people still heard
Those were simpler times, when being offended by a product didnt mean product will be banned all together, and everyone getting that product are a nazis
Such nice times
The indie scene will save art and the freedom of information
If Articles 11 and 13 go through the indie scene is gonna explode because word-of-mouth, chatrooms and local communities are gonna be how you hear about stuff
when will people realize, that if you give attention to things you hate, you bring attention to it, and then people who dislike you will support it just out of spite for you, and then other people will see it
its best to ignore it in the hopes no one else likes it and it fades from view
i remember when catcher in the rye was considered banned
kids would go out of their way to find it just because it was banned
The other thing is that censorship works only if people are willing to take part in it. As you said- back then people were not willing to do that so all atemps failed
and its a boring af book.
So yeah
It's like
Suppression just makes the communities you're trying to eradicate closer
Underground music is gonna absolutely blow up, which I'm excited for as an up-and-coming rock vocalist lmao
rock became mainstream and sort of died off.
need to bring back the old parents calling it satans music, make it cool again
oh wait, we have SJWs to call it bigot's music
My whole schtick with rock is like, it's lost its spirit nowadays
Most people who play rock that I've met in the Birmingham scene at least are all like
Rock was about authenticity, being free to be who you are, embracing that outside of the mainstream
Purposeful counterculture to prove a point
It was intellectual, in some ways poetically and in some ways scholarly
It's all stoners and cokeheads, no substance
They like the scene and image but don't understand what it truly is
And do what you like, be free, that's the point of rock, but... be authentic
Stop being fake, stop focusing on the money
That's why rock died
Grunge made everyone too sad to care
Then everyone got stoned or OD'd
Now in my generation of rock, you have idiot anarchists, emos who aren't saying anything, or drugged-up posers. No inbetween, no exception, except POSSIBLY Greta Van Fleet who are actually very talented, and indie rockers who get ignored
And that's what I wanna do. Grab the world by the balls and tell em straight, "Fuck you, I reject what you're forcing me to be and do and say". These sons of bitches can play rock til the day they die but they'll never be rockstars, yknow?
I don't wanna play rock, I wanna be a rockstar. And that's what a rockstar was
Someone who was told their place and said "No"
/rant
TLDR Rockers stopped standing for freedom and started being illogical ideologues, apathetic wasters or sellout bitches. Not me
you know what is funny? i used to listen to a punk band that used to talk about people in real need, like farmers fucked over by corporate farms and the subsidies the government gives them, or poor people having trouble finding work.
used to cover everyone in the shit (Although they still had a pretty activist vibe)
but in the recent years and with trump elected, they joined the more fuck trump side and i'm just like "you are saying fuck you to the people you used to claim you wanted to help, wtf?"
They're sellout lefty crybabies with no principles, from the sounds of things