• FrankFrankson@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Everytime I get excited about not going to a Kid Rock concert it gets canceled before I even have a chance to not go.

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    It’s just so weird that there’s people that like him and his music. It’s really hard to imagine but they genuinely exist. And you wonder how that’s even possible and you want to meet one to study them, try get an understanding, just general curiosity. Is it a mental thing? A social one? Trauma? What’s happening in their brain where they hear the music and think, “This is really good. It is a favourite thing. In no way is this person a walking meme. They are very cool. I will pay money for this.”

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      5 hours ago

      He’s had about 3 good songs and they were all on one album from 1999, so I imagine his concerts got visits from folks wearing nostalgia goggles, same as Vanilla Ice or Marcy Playground.

      Now that he’s in the news more for being MAGA, folks who were all “oh boy bawitdaba!” when thinking about him are getting that overwritten with “wasn’t he the dude doing shirtless workouts with the brain damaged antivax dude?”, and thus, ticket sales fall apart.

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    9 hours ago

    Let it happen in silence. Like donating time / money / or anything else to help those in need. Don’t need to call out you’re being a good person, just be a good person. Do the right thing and let him pass silently into obscurity.

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      2 hours ago

      Sometimes it’s good to spread this kind of negative publicity, especially where positive action is needed for the person in question to succeed.

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      7 hours ago

      I agree. But only because I understand that the world in which I grew up is gone. The level of being able to profit off of and market oneself off of being a complete fucking loser and failure is too damn high.

      I wish we could just point and laugh at awful people having funny things happen to them without them remaining relevant because of it. The fucking attention economy is awful.

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      7 hours ago

      Sort of a strange analogy to me because raising awareness is actually a very important part of charity.

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        The world has changed, or reverted back to a period where fascists will support each other to insulate the most at risk through their own “charity” to try to mitigate the dying or regression of their movement. You have to learn what their tactics are and respond accordingly, which in today’s case is to ignore them instead of point and laugh. There will soon be a time for that, too.

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    Can anyone comment on the quality of his music?

    I’d rather not listen to it myself to find out. Someone must have accidentally tuned in at some point?

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      While he definitely wasn’t the first to use autotune, he was one of the first to use that heavily stylized autotune that later became popular. Can hear it on the aptly named Only God Knows Why.

      Kinda says it all.

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      Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon of calling his music trash. Much like people did with Nickelback. I don’t like him or his music, but it’s not terrible.

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        "Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage / Some say that’s statutory, but I say it’s mandatory.”

        Not terrible? Lol

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        People hate Nickelback because it’s fun. People hate kid rock because his music sucks. The only good song he has is a duet with Sheryl Crow that is over 20 years old. His only halfway decent song since is 18 years old and is just sweet home Alabama mixed with werewolves of London. The only original song he has that made anyone pay attention to him has gibberish for a chorus. Nickelback sells out arenas and this dude can’t even get enough people to go to a concert to actually have one. There is no comparison.

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        The only song of his I know I’ve heard was his debut song from almost 30 years ago. Was it actually titled Kid Rock or am I misremembering b/c that’s also the only part of the song I can still hear in my head?

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      I only know Bawtidaba. It’s like if You took Limp Bizkits Rollin, removed the interesting guitars and left the stupid lyrics.