Woo! I LOVE MY NEW LAYOUT!

So it s'not original, I did edit all by me onesie! I still have several battles to wage against another's coding, but progress has been made :D

What to blog about? What to blog about?

Well, I'm very sick of the idea that rock and roll (and hence rock stars) should not be involved in politics, as one recent article said "it [rock and roll] is the antithesis of politics" and that "rock and roll should never be in bed with politics." What idiocy is that? If you take politics (read: beliefs, for political stances are formed upon your beliefs) out of rock and roll, what are you left with? Songs about "love," sex, using drugs, and pointless, faked "rebellion." Rock and roll (and music in general) has been a spearhead of many movements (anti-war, revival, human rights, ending global poverty and the AIDS pandemic in Africa, etc). Music without beliefs is music without meaning, would Bono's near-celestial vocals be nearly so soul-shattering if he were only singing about his latest one night stand? What could replace The Beatles' "Revolution" and what it teaches us? I could ask the same of "Teach Your Children Well" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Dishwalla's "Counting Blue Cars" is thought provoking (and for some, infuriating) at the least. Would 3 Doors Down's "Kryptonite" be nearly so powerful it weren't such an outcry from the human soul? What about "The Wall" and "Hey You" of Pink Floyd?

If you ask rock and roll to get away from politics and beliefs, you ask it to become a shadow of itself, to sell out to what the culture wants, to be soporific, self-pitying psuedo-rebellion (as I said before). You take away a major voice of sanity in our culture.

this Elizabeth, signing off. |