Wow, friend sent me a link. Great article, pretentious readership.
Did ya’ll, uh, seriously neglect to read this article in your hurry to be contrarians? It was Antony who dropped the dreaded feminist word that’s got you all up in arms, and his quote was only one of many. An entire article took place in front of your eyes and you’ve apparently neglected to read anything but two quotes. I’ve read Antony’s quote over several times and at no point does he say anyone who doesn’t enjoy CocoRosie is anti-feminist. This is the actual quote- truncated, so that you might actually read it:
“…the reception of CocoRosie in the US reflects the denial of a greater feminist issue, an ecological issue, a racial issue, a spiritual issue. If we cannot face that our collective brokenness in these areas is the rockbed of our crisis as a virulent species, then we will continue… to dismiss our American art revolutionaries who are… working through exactly these issues.”
What part of this means “people who don’t like Cocorosie hate women/are anti-feminist/are racist?” Isn’t it possible that Antony is speaking generally here about American society/culture (considering he even says “our crisis… as a… species”) , and not about You, Some Dude/tte On the Internet? Is anyone going to argue that racism, sexism, religious fundamentalism, etc aren’t problems in this country? Institutionalized problems which infiltrate all forms of our media, including music review and journalism, and therefore our collective perception of the music it reviews? If you’d take the time to actually read this excellent article thoroughly, you’ll notice that in the FIRST paragraph, brandon states that he was asked to write a review for a Cocorosie album and gave the album a positive review, only for the piece to be pulled at the last moment and replaced with a negative one written by someone else. Listening to a band and deciding they aren’t your cup of tea is one thing; coming across so many negative reviews that you never bother to give them a shot at all is another entirely.
Annie Clark’s comment is a critical essay about a college lecture given in the 60s (context, folks), and the “aryan muscle boys” in that essay are white collar, born into money, prodigal sons and those attempting to be like them by attaching themselves to “official culture”- not all white, heterosexual men on the planet. (Lay a Cocorosie album in front of some of the aryan muscle boys running most major record labels and see what happens, for example.) The professor in the essay even cautions his students not to “be” aryan muscle boys; implying they aren’t bound to be by their gender or race, but could CHOOSE to be. I mean, we’re reading the same article, right? Where does all this silly, strange defensiveness come from? If you openly support counter culture and the art it produces, regardless of the race/gender/class/etc of the person making it , you probably aren’t an “aryan muscle boy.” There you go; everyone feel secure now?
ATTN my generation: Your worth as a human being is not decided by the amount of stuff you hate. Talk a little more about the things you like and a whine a lot less about all the many, various things you don’t. You’ll feel better, I promise.
Wow, friend sent me a link. Great article, pretentious readership.
Did ya’ll, uh, seriously neglect to read this article in your hurry to be contrarians? It was Antony who dropped the dreaded feminist word that’s got you all up in arms, and his quote was only one of many. An entire article took place in front of your eyes and you’ve apparently neglected to read anything but two quotes. I’ve read Antony’s quote over several times and at no point does he say anyone who doesn’t enjoy CocoRosie is anti-feminist. This is the actual quote- truncated, so that you might actually read it:
“…the reception of CocoRosie in the US reflects the denial of a greater feminist issue, an ecological issue, a racial issue, a spiritual issue. If we cannot face that our collective brokenness in these areas is the rockbed of our crisis as a virulent species, then we will continue… to dismiss our American art revolutionaries who are… working through exactly these issues.”
What part of this means “people who don’t like Cocorosie hate women/are anti-feminist/are racist?” Isn’t it possible that Antony is speaking generally here about American society/culture (considering he even says “our crisis… as a… species”) , and not about You, Some Dude/tte On the Internet? Is anyone going to argue that racism, sexism, religious fundamentalism, etc aren’t problems in this country? Institutionalized problems which infiltrate all forms of our media, including music review and journalism, and therefore our collective perception of the music it reviews? If you’d take the time to actually read this excellent article thoroughly, you’ll notice that in the FIRST paragraph, brandon states that he was asked to write a review for a Cocorosie album and gave the album a positive review, only for the piece to be pulled at the last moment and replaced with a negative one written by someone else. Listening to a band and deciding they aren’t your cup of tea is one thing; coming across so many negative reviews that you never bother to give them a shot at all is another entirely.
Annie Clark’s comment is a critical essay about a college lecture given in the 60s (context, folks), and the “aryan muscle boys” in that essay are white collar, born into money, prodigal sons and those attempting to be like them by attaching themselves to “official culture”- not all white, heterosexual men on the planet. (Lay a Cocorosie album in front of some of the aryan muscle boys running most major record labels and see what happens, for example.) The professor in the essay even cautions his students not to “be” aryan muscle boys; implying they aren’t bound to be by their gender or race, but could CHOOSE to be. I mean, we’re reading the same article, right? Where does all this silly, strange defensiveness come from? If you openly support counter culture and the art it produces, regardless of the race/gender/class/etc of the person making it , you probably aren’t an “aryan muscle boy.” There you go; everyone feel secure now?
ATTN my generation: Your worth as a human being is not decided by the amount of stuff you hate. Talk a little more about the things you like and a whine a lot less about all the many, various things you don’t. You’ll feel better, I promise.