That doesn't mean anything at all. It's the equivalent of saying something like, "that's just love, man." The concept that all humans have equal life is actually, within the realm of human history – a modern concept.
It hasn't always been that way.
Great song.
"Each and every person on earth deserves to live fully with dignity, equity, justice, and joy." What is this philosophy based on? Isn't that concept pretty distinctly Judeo-Christian?
Life clearly isn't amazing for everyone, but it's good enough in most circles that for those who aren't busy enough working simply to provide enough money to pay their bills they can still sit on Twitter and get angry about things.
Why would you try not to be centrist?
The whole point of being "centrist," is looking at two sides of more extremist views, pulling the best from them while acknowledging the flaws in them as well. It's literally the opposite of being reductive.
The hated for centrism is such an internet phenomenon it's wild. God forbid people look at two sides and say, "well you both are right about certain things, and wrong about certain things – and simply choosing a side is to reduce the problems to some tribalistic, simplistic answer..."
I'm all good with a black metal shirt, but that design looks like it's straight out of Hot Topic. There are some great and legitimate Germanic and Gothic typefaces that would crush.
The wild thing is – all they had to do was have tasteful typography. They don't even need complex designs, just someone who knows good typography to choose some good and relevant stuff, and there you go.
Beautiful song, and honestly it's a good cover – but I just didn't need nor want yet another cover it. I feel like indie music is really getting derivative at this point. Obviously there are no set limits on what can be covered and how many times – but it's like Whitney's cover of 'Take Me Home, Country Road.' I love Whitney – genuinely, but that song just doesn't require another cover of it. Ignore me, I'm complaining.
I made a post about the weirdness of Taylor Swift co-opting "indie music" for an album called "folklore" with songs called "cardigan" than double as merchandising for actual cardigans. I'm digressing a bit but maybe my point is that everything is just feels all too connected or something.
Remove the logo, get rid of the stars – decent cardigan.
It's wild "indie" has gotten to the point where pop-stars are co-opting the sound, calling their albums "folklore" with songs called "cardigan," which doubles as a merchandising opportunity to sell *actual* cardigans. We all see the absurdity in this, right?
All of the artists need to remove their music from Spotify. They're not making enough from it anyway – get T. Swift with her new found sense of justice to pull all of her music again and demand change.
You can bend businesses to your will, you just have to convince the consumers to do it.
Create an alternative platform where artists make more. All easier said than done – I know. But artists aren't entirely powerless. If you're a member of Reddit you see people upending the whole system right now by creating new places because Reddit is essentially terrible.
I feel like it's a bit shameful that they've become sort of "forgotten." Rilo Kiley helped usher in the world of indie music we have today. They bridged a gap between Rainer Maria and Elliott Smith in some ways. The Execution of All Things was a special record and honestly they were kind of a smarter, classier, and all around more aesthetically pleasing version of highschool pop-punk/emo/indie we all needed and grew into a legitimate good band, even in the "adult"-sense.
That Taylor Swift, she's such an *adult* these days. Using the f-word and all of that.
Taylor Swift is really good at keeping with the times. She's good at finding what's hot, trendy, and popular – then wrapping herself in it. Nothing wrong with that – but that's exactly what's happening with this record. It's kind of mind-boggling she hasn't dressed herself in the "folk-indie" gown until now, when it's not nearly as cool it was years ago when JT acted as Bon Iver on SNL.
I just wish people would stop associating this idea of the National, or "indie folk," as "adult." Just because you're jamming to Bon Iver, doesn't mean you've reached some level of maturity. I love him too, spent a pretty penny for second row seats for my wife and I to see him in Charlotte and it was one of the better shows I've been to in years.
If we're going to continually say, "Formerly known as Dixie Chicks," you know use that pesky pRoBleMaTiC word – why did they even change their name in the first place?
Lady Antebellum didn't even receive a medal in this year's oppression olympics.
While they have a female in the band, they're deducted points for having multiple men, as well as the biggest hit to their points – being white.
They received points for A. Female in band, and B. putting their white guilt virtue signalling front and center – but it just wasn't enough.
Doesn't work when your morality is derived from your politics like so many modern folks. You literally *can't* be a good person if you disagree with them politically because it's not a question of politics, it's a question of morality.
Heck – I'm a surburban, white, Christian dude actually *from* Jacksonville, FL and Shinedown still doesn't register for or with me.
People that listen to that stuff are *slightly* more into actual music than say the average suburban, stay at home, mother of 3 who listens to Christian radio. She's not really a music fan per se, she just needs something to play when she's picking up chik-fil-a for the kids. I think Shinedown is similar in some ways, they fit a style of rock music for people that are actually *into* music a little bit more than the average, but not really by much.
A lot of folks are so absolutely brimming in a guilt because of their skin color that they're going to great lengths to make people feel better who never asked them to make them feel better in the first place.
Publicly apologizing when you've done nothing wrong only brings attention to yourself; I think he has a good intentions but it's pretty clearly unnecessary for him to publicly apologize over a band name that from what I can tell, most people never associated with racism in the first place.
He also mentioned that Jimmy Buffett was one of his favorite songwriters in another interview from years back.
The guy *does not care* what popular opinion of music or craftsmanship is.
I loved his answer about the Biblical plagues, personally.
That's his right at the business owner.
So long as he doesn't expect all of the other business owners to feel the same way, don't see any issues with it.
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