I'm so excited for that new Low album. I love everything they do and everything they do makes me love everything else they do even more. What an amazing body of work.
I remember going to a church camp right after Nasty As They Wanna Be came out. I listened to that tape on my walkman on repeat for much of that week and some overall really positive memories came from that time. Now if you go back and listen to that album it has not aged well. The rhymes are simple and clunky but back then that shit was classic. Since then, raunchy sex raps from male artists are a dime a dozen. Now there have been some pretty good female sex rappers over the years but the balance is still strongly weighted toward the men. Good on CupcakKe for dropping a few dildos on the female side of the scale.
Even if this list was made with the sole intention to actively limit the number of white men represented (which I doubt) it is still not a step backwards. Go ahead and be sad about it but there are plenty of other places where white men still dominate. Speaking as a white man, we had our fun and it is well past time we step aside and make room for some other voices.
"Impossible to get through in one sitting"?! I had First Come, First Served on repeat in my car for months. I was also probably the exact kind of fan Keith was trying to put off. Didn't work.
I like your first point. Kurt was one of the first male influences I had that made me feel like it was ok to identify as a feminist. He said so many things defending and advocating for women that really spoke to me.
I will not be seeing this movie because I grew up with Kurt and already got what he willingly gave to the world in terms of ideas and music. All this dug up residue that had emerged since his death means nothing to me. I can understand how younger people who missed living Kurt would want more because he was a facinating person but it seems you would be better off finding all his old interviews from when he was alive and presenting himself on (at least somewhat) his terms.
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