Creative works you enjoyed until politics happened - "How politics made me hate Welcome to Nightvale and other things"

Dwight Frye said:
Jethro Tull was always my favorite, and they were never particularly political either. Never did see the appeal of Springsteen, I think Thunder Road is the only song of his I truly like.
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I've theorized that Springsteen is an old-school demonstration of "manufactured activist singer," a shitty musician that decided to turn to playing left-wing activist to gain more attention from the media and become a "cultural icon speaking truth to power (with the support of the media, academia, and a large chunk of the political class)." It's not that different from Billie Eyelash or Kaepernick turning himself into an activist when his career took a downslide, but Springsteen was right in that point where he could ingrain upon the Americana and make himself seem organic.
 
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Flaming Insignias said:
I've theorized that Springsteen is an old-school demonstration of "manufactured activist singer," a shitty musician that decided to turn to playing left-wing activist to gain more attention from the media and become a "cultural icon speaking truth to power (with the support of the media, academia, and a large chunk of the political class)." It's not that different from Billie Eyelash or Kaepernick turning himself into an activist when his career took a downslide, but Springsteen was right in that point where he could ingrain upon the Americana and make himself seem organic.
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Bruce was a struggling musician from the start, and he's got some fairly working class credentials. Maybe this is my inner Jersey talking, where love of Bruce is basically the state religion, but his popularity is pretty organic, since it speaks to that Rust Belt lifestyle I grew up around.
 
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soy_king said:
I wouldn't call Queen prog, they're more like hard rock pseudo glam. Classic prog would be Jethro Tull, Yes, Gentle Giant, Rush, that sort of thing.
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You're probably right, though there are clear cues in the early works. Still stands that Prog Rock isn't the activist hokey the name implies it is, and it is certainly better than a lot of the overly-political swill that came out of the Punk and "Americana" spheres.
 
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soy_king said:
Bruce was a struggling musician from the start, and he's got some fairly working class credentials. Maybe this is my inner Jersey talking, where love of Bruce is basically the state religion, but his popularity is pretty organic, since it speaks to that Rust Belt lifestyle I grew up around.
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Again, you're right, but Springsteen didn't really hit off until he played up the "struggle" aspect of his music. He wouldn't have been more than a blip on the radar if not for Born in the USA turning him into the bold rebel singer after starting as yet another run-of-the-mill rockstar.
 
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Flaming Insignias said:
Again, you're right, but Springsteen didn't really hit off until he played up the "struggle" aspect of his music. He wouldn't have been more than a blip on the radar if not for Born in the USA turning him into the bold rebel singer after starting as yet another run-of-the-mill rockstar.
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I've always hated Springsteen.

Not for his cheesy "working class" look and persona, not for his desire to interject politics into his corny radio rock, not even for the unwarranted and unearned self importance he and his band seem to radiate.

For the "I'm a cool rockin' daddy in the USA" at the end of Born in the USA. That's such a fucking stupid line that only a lame ass boomer would think was a good idea. I can't hear that song without wanting to knock his geriatric ass across Madison Square Garden.
 
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Flaming Insignias said:
You're probably right, though there are clear cues in the early works. Still stands that Prog Rock isn't the activist hokey the name implies it is, and it is certainly better than a lot of the overly-political swill that came out of the Punk and "Americana" spheres.
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Sorry, do people think the "progressive" in prog means "progressive politics"? I always thought it was progressive as in the structure of most of the songs were progressive.
 
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Flaming Insignias said:
I've theorized that Springsteen is an old-school demonstration of "manufactured activist singer," a shitty musician that decided to turn to playing left-wing activist to gain more attention from the media and become a "cultural icon speaking truth to power (with the support of the media, academia, and a large chunk of the political class)." It's not that different from Billie Eyelash or Kaepernick turning himself into an activist when his career took a downslide, but Springsteen was right in that point where he could ingrain upon the Americana and make himself seem organic.
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Early Bruce is very much a product of his environment. The Jersey shore he hails from is extremely blue collar and working class and relatively conservative (we aren't talking southern conservative but these parts of NJ largely vote republican and are exactly what you'd imagine a working class conservative would be).

After the 80s were over he clearly became the stereotypical cocksucking California liberal. If anything it makes his only good early music seem less genuine as if he were just born into a hippy commune, he would have been making crap from the very start.

As he goes now, he just banks on his name and continues to get purchases, mainly from an aging demographic that buy once and never listen to his new stuff again, then go to his concerts where he doesn't play the new stuff.
 
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Star Wars. Use to be one of my favorite movie series until Disney got the rights, made new movies and Reddit deep dived into it.
Magic the gathering, Pokémon, D&D, and (sadly) warhammer.
However, The worst blow to me is anime. Anime is my main thing since I was a kid and no one really heard of it. Now with downies trying to make it political; I hate talking about it. It’s horrible when someone tries to make a character gay or a tranny or you have some alt wannabe /pol/tard having lolis in SS uniforms. It’s fuckin’ depressing
 
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