----- Original Message ----- From: <CaMo81@aol.com> To: <sinister@missprint.org> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 4:04 PM Subject: Sinister: Who should Slim Shady dis next?
I try to respect all music, but I really can't stand rap. I mean, what's so enticing about music that is only about sex, violence, egoism, treating women like objects and basically glorifying everything wrong with society. I was fishing the other day and a car pulled up with the hatchback open and the bass pumping out of it. The "lyrics" i heard were "Girls wanna F--- me everyday." And just today I heard a kid "singing" "All I wanna do is F---" I mean, come on get a life.
your point of view is admirable, but you're being rather shortsighted. it's not only about those things. that's like saying aerosmith or korn is all that rock is about, and therefore so are belle and sebastian and pavement--all socialists are josef stalin and all feminists are valerie solanis. you couldn't fit, say, public enemy, or the beastie boys, or de la soul into that definition. it's fine if you just don't like the musical form, that's simply a matter of taste, but don't take the loudest, most obnoxious message as the only one and discount everything else. that's a mistake in any situation, and you could miss out. jay, who's really not this pedantic :) "you're somebody's girlfriend too" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+