Why the fuck every musician these days try to come off as wholesome tiny desk npr Nardwuar chungus with all smiles and flowers? That shit is gay. What happened to the mystique of unapproachable asshole but great musician?
>>128319912> Nardwuar chungusI don’t know what this meansI think it’s just easier to not have to deal with assholes, so that’s why assholes aren’t as prominent
>>128319912Because its the only way you'll get anywhere
>>128320175Plenty of rockstars were assholes. Listen to the interviews of Johnny Rotten
>>128320456I mean these days, not the fucking 1970s
>>128319912times have changedthe asshole persona won't get you so far nowadays and people prefer seeing nice wholesome stuffthis might also be why rock and metal has disappeared from the mainstreamlike, even the last great rock bands from the 2000s like MCR didn't really play an asshole persona
>>128320488Makes sense why music sucks today.
>>128320456People today with the personality for that go into being social media freaks these days, not musicians.
The reason is "inclusion"Nothing can be exclusionaryThe most fragile pearl clutcher you know has the right to feel as cool/underground/counter-culture as anyone else if they so choose and so anywhere that isn't completely welcoming and deferential to that person is invaded and suffers forced regime change
Also, currently cool people are captured by the same social media apps as the pearl clutchers and culture vultures, with their "community guidelines" and algorithmic slop torrents. Networks of communication have now been centralised, sanitised and globalised
>>128319912wholesome smiles and flowers is for the indie kids but currently the musicians with an asshole persona is rappers
>>128320547Welcome to hell
>>128320594Not really. Even rap is infantilized.
>>128320547Horror
>>128319912>>128320594rock music still has those mikko aspa type edgelords too especially in the outskirts like RAC or NSBM
>>128320933We?
>>128320488>>128319629I don't know what gives you the idea that Swift is a nice or lovable person in any way.
>>128320945^This.>wholesome chungus whatMaybe that would have applied to Doris Day in 1954 but...
>>128319912Geordie Greep (pic related) is keeping your dream alive bro. Totally unapproachable, arrogant but really great live>>128320488Implying we're not living through an extremely bad tempered, politically polarised time - it's become rebellious to be even keeled
>>128319912>What happened to the mystique of unapproachable asshole but great musicianmillennials are so rustic lol. it's 2026, chud.actors are processed and packaged by teams of people (who all profit).musicians, the same.they're all owned and controlled by the same people.so, unless you're an real artist or poet, you're just a regular person who happens to be famous for the benefit of othersiow, you're a product and there's no mystique in that
>>128321063>cornycarefully typed ebonics
it's all fake niceness because Millenialz are low T fags
>>128321214This is part of it. The feminization of society, where is made to play by womens' made up social rules that prioritise politeness over truth and where everything is taken personally
>>128321214didn't i hear stories from early '10s about how Lady Gaga's tour bus/plane just had people drinking mineral water and eating bags of nuts instead of typical rock star shit?
>>128321452I don't remember, but I did recall Lemmy before he died saying how young people in music were too clean living and stuff.
>>128319912In the past, people only really knew rockstars from limited media and appearing on TV and seeing them on stage and at shows so there was more of an understanding that you were looking at an image and not just a random normie that played musicEver since social media and algorithmic content has demanded you whore out every aspect of your life to your fans at all times, people don't look at well known musicians with a sense of unreality and a feeling that they're buying into an image anymore, so if you do anything rockstar-y they see it as just another normie being a dickhead and get personally upset by it.
thats why I prefer people like Melvins, the Daughters while they were a thing at least had that atmosphere especially confirmed by the singer being some kind of abuser
>>128321008>(pic related)
>>128322391He thinks James Chance in OP is Greep
