Comments on: “After listening to this hybrid of hip-hop and garage music, I wanted to kill someone.” http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/ A Guy Called Fitzgerald Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: tiddlerz http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/#comment-288312 tiddlerz Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:31:11 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/#comment-288312 Grime? Its just grim with an e Grime? Its just grim with an e

]]> By: john osborn http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/#comment-288204 john osborn Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:30:26 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/#comment-288204 now i know why I have been stabbing random people to bits and calling every lady I see a ho. The music made me do it, i'm innocent! thug life 4 effah! now i know why I have been stabbing random people to bits and calling every lady I see a ho. The music made me do it, i’m innocent! thug life 4 effah!

]]> By: Will C. http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/#comment-287971 Will C. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:35:47 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/#comment-287971 I'm usually torn when I see articles like this. First things first, the article is embarrassingly badly written; I can't say I'm surprised it was published, since standards for decent writing in journalism have never been much to speak of, but that doesn't change the irritating style. But I do have some issues with the lyrical content in a lot of contemporary rap, grime, etc. I'd agree that the lyrics are more a symptom than a cause of the violent, rebellious, and sometimes misogynistic attitudes of the culture they come from, but I still find a lot of the lyrics more than a little repellent. And of course, some of this is preference, differences in what different people find appropriate. But I don't think it's unreasonable to state there's a problem when a song (whatever the genre) has to praise this or that social ill constantly. And in some ways it's worse when that praise is disingenuous - bad enough that there are people who commit violent crimes, abuse women, abuse drugs, but when a producer or artist talks about those things just to shock, or just to sound tough or get attention? "Desensitized" is a cliche of a word, and hardly something unique to "today's world," but I still see it happening, and I still don't like it. I’m usually torn when I see articles like this. First things first, the article is embarrassingly badly written; I can’t say I’m surprised it was published, since standards for decent writing in journalism have never been much to speak of, but that doesn’t change the irritating style.
But I do have some issues with the lyrical content in a lot of contemporary rap, grime, etc. I’d agree that the lyrics are more a symptom than a cause of the violent, rebellious, and sometimes misogynistic attitudes of the culture they come from, but I still find a lot of the lyrics more than a little repellent.
And of course, some of this is preference, differences in what different people find appropriate. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to state there’s a problem when a song (whatever the genre) has to praise this or that social ill constantly. And in some ways it’s worse when that praise is disingenuous - bad enough that there are people who commit violent crimes, abuse women, abuse drugs, but when a producer or artist talks about those things just to shock, or just to sound tough or get attention? “Desensitized” is a cliche of a word, and hardly something unique to “today’s world,” but I still see it happening, and I still don’t like it.

]]> By: Ronan http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/#comment-287592 Ronan Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:05:54 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/#comment-287592 yeah I keep it hanging low and lazy at the lovers rock lounge....ladies get in free, funny none have ever come down?! yeah I keep it hanging low and lazy at the lovers rock lounge….ladies get in free, funny none have ever come down?!

]]> By: ronant http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/#comment-287520 ronant Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:03:17 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/#comment-287520 "Tonight I’m off to London club night Lovers Rock Lounge — because, like everybody else, I need a good dose of love in my life." Aren't you playing there next week Ronan? “Tonight I’m off to London club night Lovers Rock Lounge — because, like everybody else, I need a good dose of love in my life.”

Aren’t you playing there next week Ronan?

]]> By: grimly http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/#comment-287466 grimly Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:17:30 +0000 http://ronanfitzgerald.net/houseisafeeling/2008/08/07/after-listening-to-this-hybrid-of-hip-hop-and-garage-music-i-wanted-to-kill-someone/#comment-287466 after reading that article, i feel like shooting myself. after reading that article, i feel like shooting myself.

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