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tobermoriansass:
Possibly one of the weirdest transmutations of pop culture artifact meaning into something else other than originally intended is Black S/abbath’s W/ar Pigs, which is a staunchly anti-war song but the 300 sequel used it pretty unironically as a remix to play over the end titles, with you know, the whole glorification of war and manliness and blah blah blah and then now I’m reading thru comments on a vid using it to assemble imperial/space fash imagery to the song and like the comments are wild because everyone thinks this is badass or something including the creator and it’s a trip like you do realize you just made a strong case for why the empire/first order are bad, they’re all part of this war machine that is critiqued even in tlj and ohhhhhhhh my god it’s just fucking funny
#like the song can’t get anymore lyrically obvious about what its about#but the sound its just the sound being used to carry this alternate meaning#that doesn’t exist except for whatever shit 300 pulled#(and look i like that movie on a 100% trashy level but its also…vile)#but just. everyone talking about how this makes h/ux badass again….#congratulations on your excessive stupidity. #personal#the vid is in my queue and you’ll know it when you see it#its just. so weird to see this staunchly anti war song so misunderstood bc of how it sounds.
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Here’s the thing, though, that’s been happening with that entire album from the beginning. Sabbath got so much shit because people thought– oh what’s the one with the heroin in it? Hand of Doom. That song was banned all over the place because people heard drug references in it and assumed it was, like, pro-drug. The whole thing is like, a frothy rant against drug use, in particular the epidemic of heroin abuse that was killing Vietnam veterans.
Oh you, you know you must be blind
To do something like this
To take the sleep that you don’t know
You’re giving death a kiss, oh, little fool now
But nobody listens to the lyrics. There’s a great tempo shift and some phenomenal guitar work and that’s all anyone notices, beyond a vague “this song is about drugs”. So.
And I mean. People use Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” as a Patriotism Anthem because they’re dumb as shit. There’s not one positive line in that whole song.
Metal in particular, though, has gotten entirely co-opted for the Aesthetic of it. And I suppose what does it say for those of us who were born long after those songs became classics? All the revolutionary impact, anti-establishment sentiment, shocking iconoclasm of them is faded and they’re now just– I mean, can a counter-cultural thing really retain that status once it’s been absorbed into the culture??
I mean, think about Paul Ryan being a Rage Against The Machine fan?
I haven’t even finished my first cup of coffee so this is a lot less articulate than I wanted to be, but– I feel you, that sort of shit drives me crazy.
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tobermoriansass:
Possibly one of the weirdest transmutations of pop culture artifact meaning into something else other than originally intended is Black S/abbath’s W/ar Pigs, which is a staunchly anti-war song but the 300 sequel used it pretty unironically as a remix to play over the end titles, with you know, the whole glorification of war and manliness and blah blah blah and then now I’m reading thru comments on a vid using it to assemble imperial/space fash imagery to the song and like the comments are wild because everyone thinks this is badass or something including the creator and it’s a trip like you do realize you just made a strong case for why the empire/first order are bad, they’re all part of this war machine that is critiqued even in tlj and ohhhhhhhh my god it’s just fucking funny
#like the song can’t get anymore lyrically obvious about what its about#but the sound its just the sound being used to carry this alternate meaning#that doesn’t exist except for whatever shit 300 pulled#(and look i like that movie on a 100% trashy level but its also…vile)#but just. everyone talking about how this makes h/ux badass again….#congratulations on your excessive stupidity. #personal#the vid is in my queue and you’ll know it when you see it#its just. so weird to see this staunchly anti war song so misunderstood bc of how it sounds.
(tags from op)
Here’s the thing, though, that’s been happening with that entire album from the beginning. Sabbath got so much shit because people thought– oh what’s the one with the heroin in it? Hand of Doom. That song was banned all over the place because people heard drug references in it and assumed it was, like, pro-drug. The whole thing is like, a frothy rant against drug use, in particular the epidemic of heroin abuse that was killing Vietnam veterans.
Oh you, you know you must be blind
To do something like this
To take the sleep that you don’t know
You’re giving death a kiss, oh, little fool now
But nobody listens to the lyrics. There’s a great tempo shift and some phenomenal guitar work and that’s all anyone notices, beyond a vague “this song is about drugs”. So.
And I mean. People use Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” as a Patriotism Anthem because they’re dumb as shit. There’s not one positive line in that whole song.
Metal in particular, though, has gotten entirely co-opted for the Aesthetic of it. And I suppose what does it say for those of us who were born long after those songs became classics? All the revolutionary impact, anti-establishment sentiment, shocking iconoclasm of them is faded and they’re now just– I mean, can a counter-cultural thing really retain that status once it’s been absorbed into the culture??
I mean, think about Paul Ryan being a Rage Against The Machine fan?
I haven’t even finished my first cup of coffee so this is a lot less articulate than I wanted to be, but– I feel you, that sort of shit drives me crazy.
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