Your musical taste?

[eliasfrost]

Lots of really talented musicians have really fucked up/violent messages, it's just something you have to deal with once you start getting into that sort of music. I mean fuck one of the bands I really like has an album called "Shoot The Kids at School" and another one called "Fuck World trade" with a picture of the twin towers crashing on the front of it. Obviously that's some pretty fucked up stuff, but if you can get by that a lot of those bands are really talented (RATM being a prime example).

For me the message is just as important as the talent behind the message. If a band plays like a god but their message and views are something I don't support, then I don't listen to it, because it doesn't cling well with me and my values. For example RatM, I love their music, they are exceptionally good good musicians, but their lyrics and message is so wrong to me that I find them hard to listen to, frankly I find them rather pretentious sometimes, but that might be just me.

That might explain why I listen to a lot of instrumental music, because the message and intention is so floaty it's all about interpretation rather than a fixed message and/or values. That's not to say all instrumental music is neutral, a great deal of propaganda was accompanied by instrumentals, most noticable would be the WWI/II era where music had a large influence on the people of all involving countries (especially the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the US). But I'm getting ahead of myself here, sorry.