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This is a very mainstream surface level metal band with pop music like sound and song structure. It’s not like the more extreme types of metal that break the traditional pop song structure and where you actually have to train your ears by listening to metal for a long time to appreciate it.

Of course the worst part about this band is the lyrical content. It’s very safe and politically correct. It doesn’t stray from the liberal worldview. Pretty much every song is about how the west are the good guys. They even have a song about the poor 9/11 victims and the evil Muslim terrorists. The few songs they have about the Soviets have lyrics in them about how Stalin is evil and communism is oppressive. Weird how none of the songs about america have obligatory lyrics shitting on the country.

All around dogshit band for people who don’t actually love metal and probably only listen to Metallica and Pantera.

Can someone who is a fan or something explain what this guy's fucking deal is? Why is he releasing albums on major labels while prancing around with Wolfsangels and other pseudo-swastikas?
People say it's all full of double meanings, but his music is so unpleasant to listen to, it's such a celebration of anti-intellectualism and being braindead that I end up too disgusted to even listen to it.
Before you immediately assume I'm not "in on it" I'm a big fan of Genocide Organ, who have a similar approach of using reactionary symbols as a weapon against reactionary ideology. When it comes to this guy, I mean, he's hanging out with Tom Metzger and Bob Heick. Stewart Home, who seems like a pretty cool guy, directly accused him of being a Nazi, in an article that is here but I have yet to read it
https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/wakeford2.htm

I don’t get it. Five years ago we were told this girl was going to save pop music. She made an album where she blended art pop with trap, industrial and dark ambient. She was single-handedly usurping the control if the major labels. She is also extremely socially conscious and leftist, basically the zoomer Joan Baez. Now she’s only released one song in the past two years and it’s bland as hell. Why

What do we think of Chappell Roan?

She’s openly queer, neurodivergent, pro-Palestine, has songs glorifying sex work, and seems pretty progressive overall.

Does her rise to fame signify any cultural shift we should be paying attention to?

With this one, you can make actual songs.
Hearing right now to the international as an anime opening.

https://www.suno.ai/

Post all bluegrass, country, western, southern rock and country rock.

Music made by non-human fauna, flora, fungi, ect…

Zionist “memorial exhibit” was creation of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande’s manager:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8bGlpJt_yT/

Should we add every artist managed by Scooter Braun to the BDS list?

This band seems to have been a pretty big deal in their peak and they even have their own genre of music (digital hardcore), but I don't think I have ever heard anyone making music similar to them, were they an evolutionary dead-end? Why nobody else got successful with digital hardcore?

Also what do you think about them in general?

What do punk rockers think of pop punk? I think it eschews the political aspect of punk, and cleans it up a lot and makes it much more neutral. It also focuses a lot on the youthful energy part of punk, and is a very young style of music. I can see how some people can see this as kind of an appropriation of their culture and a sterilization of what makes punk punk. But that sort of attitude is kind of gatekeeping, though we have to acknowledge that punk rockers and people who were part of the pop punk culture belonged to different groups at the time back when music formed some young people's identities. The pop punk culture was sort of completely separate, and its own beast, similar with nu metal and metal. Does it mean the music was bad? No, it wasn't.
The funny thing is that sonically I think I prefer the way pop punk sounds better. It just has a more, I don't know how to describe it, accessible sound maybe? A lot of punk rock doesn't have great production and very simplistic in guitar playing. I get that its the point, but it just doesn't sound as good to my ears that way.

This is just assessments I'm making with my limited knowledge, so feel free to correct me.