July 14, 2009
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Alternative
I have to confess. I have a guilty pleasure. You see, I'm generally a strict Classic Rock music listener. However, I do enjoy some music from the genre that some music circles refer to as "complete and utter crap," also known as Alternative. What can I say? It's catchy. Let me try to defend my views, as I'm sure to be next on the musical crucifixion list. I don't like it for the reason most fans of the genre do. Alt fans, I'm assuming, enjoy the music because it provides a good metaphor for their miserable, insignificant lives (that's right: Alt fans have more than one life each). They're sad and angry, and Alt provides lots of cathartic yelling. Also, it's the select music of a certain subculture (which I shall not name for fear of catching the emo). Why this subculture proliferates is beyond me, but then, I don't understand why my own subculture, the geeks, proliferates either.
The point I'm trying laboriously to reach is why I like Alt Rock. While I make fun of my life frequently, I actually lead a relatively good life. I'm not in dire need for money, I have a decent roof over my head, I have no troubling relationships, I have a car, and I don't have to go to the laundromat every week. Plus, I'm white*. None of the two fan criteria apply to me. The reason I like Alt Rock is because I find it simply adorable. They're just so angry. It's like watching a bunch of kittens playfully jumping all over each other. Every now and then, I'll find myself grinning in the car while listening just because I picture the lead singer screaming into the mike as though he or she is not being paid gratuitous amounts of money. It just makes me want to go "awww~". Plus, as I mentioned in the fifth sentence of this review, it's catchy. What more is there to say?
*Okay, I suppose that joke is in poor taste.
Comments (3)
Hmm what alternative are you talking about. Looking at my itunes I have a lot of different bands listed under alternative, and it doesn't seem to be the same kind of music you are talking about. I must have put the wrong genre lol. But I have SUPER eclectic tastes when it comes to music.
I have so much to say about this topic that I'm not even going to start. All I'm going to say is that a select few alternative bands actually have a soul. The sad part is that although the band has a soul their fans are still void of one, disguising the band as just another bunch of over-emotional music impersonators.
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