here's what I'll say.
Say what you want about the year I was born in, but it was a great time to grow up experiencing pop punk. That's something I was there first hand for that people older than me and people younger than me just don't get.
Did it tend towards being soulless and commercial and exploitative? Of course it did. It's the music industry.
But I was there.
I was there for sum 41, blink 182, fall out boy, green day, paramore, panic! at the disco, my chemical romance.
Did they stand for anything? No not really. Just some lowest common denominator angst and romance and government approved rebellious nature.
If the main form of participating in society is tasteful and conscious consumption, if your record of existence is judged by the media you consume and assimilate into your being--then that's a bad setup. You can't be doing that. You have to unironically have bad taste to show that you are self that exists independent of what you consume
No but what I actually think is good art grows like a mushroom.
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Then you have Rage Against the Machine's 90's era where Zach de la Rocha really WAS about that action and dropped out after reckoning with the notion that the band wasn't going in it's intended direction and was being subsumed by industry influences. I mean he rejoined later but even the act of dropping out of a highly successful band for 7 years is it's own impressive statement.
At the end of the day, we all live under capitalism in this country. Participation isn't voluntary OR endorsing, it is required to survive. We aren't capitalists profiting off of the system, we are prisoners being exploited.
That's why this is my favorite Christmas song! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6njrf_zHfw
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