in related matters, how come courtney love fans always say, "if you hate courtney love you obviously hate women"? yet no-one ever says "if you hate kathleen hanna, you obviously hate women". could it be that kathleen hanna fans just aren't that stupid?
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i wuv kathleen and want to be like her when i grow up.
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 11 April 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 11 April 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)
obv if kathleen wants to make bad records to inspire her fans she needs to try a lot harder: later bikini kill and "feminist sweepstakes" are both very polished. (and not very good either)
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if i took this literally, rather than just an angry rant, i'd probably be irritated by it too. out of curiosity, do you think the line "white boy don't laugh don't cry just die" should be taken literally too? you know, i ain't defending her, it is a silly thing to say, but at the same time, she's human and i guess i can relate to her fury. (i think thats the crux of it for me, she's never been a hero figure to me, so i don't hang on every word she says.)
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― jonathan gittins (nevermind^), Saturday, 12 April 2003 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)
Also a lot of people maybe dislike the angry political things, which is kinda stupid, plenty of angry music is hella fun. The Stooges are always kinda frustrated and pissed off, and they enjoy it (and so do we)
Yeah, I def. do enjoy the Stooges, I fucking love them (if we are making lists, they are one of my top 5 bands), but there is a difference between angry music and "angry political" music. As far as I can remember, the Stooges were never very political and never tried to be - there is a great Iggy quote in reference to the MC5 and their mangled politics, something along the lines of "The people don't give a shit!" I really don't like music mixed with politics because half the time the musicians have absolutely no idea what they are talking about (see MC5), are using politics to gain noteriety (see the Sex Pistols) or are just fucking annoying with it. I'd rather not be preached at when I'm listening to music and judging from things quoted above that sounds like what KH is attempting to do - it kind of makes me think less of the actual musical content. So I guess I can understand people disliking her on the "angry political" grounds, I probably would find it difficult to overlook that as well. And the 'inspiration' thing just sounds stupid - but I should prob wait till I hear more of her music to make any real judgements.
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― Damian (Damian), Saturday, 12 April 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)
i don't think the sex pistols used politics to gain notoriety: i think "god save the queen" is just john lydon expressing his deep-seated absolute loathing of a society that brought him up to feel totally worthless about himself. it's as personal as "no fun" in its way. i think the same goes for most bikini kill songs, actually, there's as much self-loathing in there as world-hate.
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 12 April 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)
that is a great clause, in the grammatical sense...
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― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Saturday, 12 April 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)
...the hegemony of friendliness must be bowed to.
― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Sunday, 13 April 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh yeah, that is pretty much what I think too - the Sex Pistols' politics had far more to do with them personally than any desire to make things better for others. Maybe the Sex Pistols weren't the best example because I don't actually have much problem w/ their particular use of politics. That's probably because it's easy now to conclude that the Sex Pistols (or JL at least) only cared about the working classes because he was part of it at the time. It just seems like a joke now whereas I suppose if you'd been really into the SPs at the time you'd feel pretty betrayed by the whole "for the money" reunion tour (it's SO not what punk is about) etc etc. Also they never seemed preachy to me, although having prior knowledge of just how insincere some of the things they were saying actually were (eg. JL only used 'anarchist' because it rhymed vaguely w/ 'antichrist'), made it seem too much like irony to be taken seriously.
Re: Iggy, what WAS his political impact? Regardless of that, I think you could say that Iggy Pop, musically speaking, was definately apolitical (ok, I haven't heard every piece of music he ever wrote so I could be proved wrong), and it's only when politics start creeping into songs (or fucking up the band a la MC5) that I really have any issue w/ it - people can think anything they like about whatever they like, but when I'm being told what to think/take/eat/drink and so on it can, and usually does, ruin my enjoyment of whatever I'm listening to.
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elisabeth you sound pissed off. i didn't mean to offend. like i said, i wasn't defending the statement, it IS a stupid thing to say. but do you REALLY think KH thinks racists, wifebeaters and meateaters are the same thing? i doubt shes that dogmatic. maybe she meant that they are part of the same problem - which is a power problem.
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i doubt feminists agree on any one way of making art, btw. mostly i wanted to post to say about how my claim that later BK was too predictable compared with early BK is fucking dumb. sorry.
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