The 2019 American Music Awards: It Was Hell. Literally

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Pop music from my youth was riddled lust, rebellion, suggestions of drug/alcohol, and other current trends and troubles, etc.
Music today goes above current trends and simply embraces evil.
 
I’ve heard of 2 of them. And having to listen to their music is pretty hellish for me.
Billie Eilish is a little bit interesting in a 3 am groggy old skool Fiona Apple sort of way. (I just read an interview with Fiona Apple pretty much decrying the entire way in which she was presented and objectified when she was younger.) But Billie is a child and the subject matter of her songs makes me uncomfortable coming out of someone her age.
Last I heard of Kesha she was suing some old guy manager she used to have, for abuse.
 
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Ok, just read the article.
Even if I was 20 years in the past being all sinful and not going to church, I would describe that entire show as Pathetic.
All of it has been done already in the past.
Madonna and Sabbath pioneered most of it.
Boring.
 
I am honestly sorry I even opened the link and read it…I feel like I need to go shower…🤮
 
adamhovey1988 said:
I have heard of exactly one of those people
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I have heard of exactly zero of those people. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: I read Billie Eilish and thought, “Enûma Eliš[h]? The Babylonian creation myth?” I’m glad I live under a holy rock.
 
The silver-lining virtue of these moments is in reminding us of how corrupt pop culture can be. I don’t spend any amount of my leisure time being entertained by all that, so I take it a useful check-in with how barf-worthy things are.
 
While some of the article’s points seemed valid, I feel a decent amount of it was looking too deep into things.
 
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Yeah, musicians pushing the envelope is nothing new.

I remember when heavy metal was the go-to for pearl clutching.
 
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I’ll admit that while I rarely look forward to or watch award shows, I’ve come to look forward to VigilantCitizen’s breakdowns of award shows.
 
I saw the commercial for the awards show and it turned me off. I don’t watch awards shows anymore - music, tv or movie. They live in another reality and I don’t want to go there.
 
Didn’t watch it, due to the available technology that allows me to steer away from those things I find worrisome. For quite a few years, TV remotes have had on/off and channel changing functions, not to mention parental controls…using them eliminates the worry.

Rejoice
 
7_Sorrows said:
I don’t watch awards shows anymore - music, tv or movie. They live in another reality and I don’t want to go there.
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I hear ya! Just got to be careful that the void has not been filled by the internet, which is far more deceptively insidious than the manipulators of TV ever hoped to be!
 
I suppose. I’ve spent my whole life since around age 17 in the “jaded hipster” circles that would be saying, " Yeah, Hendrix is OK but T-Bone Walker did that years ago."
 
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While some of the article’s points seemed valid, I feel a decent amount of it was looking too deep into things.
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I think it’s worth considering why/how pop music got focused on these themes, which, religion aside, are not interesting to the vast majority of listeners. The current pop landscape is oriented towards very young listeners and those adults who go to dance clubs, which have always (at least since the 70s) had a heavy gay emphasis, and also a weird preoccupation with sexual sin and guilt. Perhaps this goes hand in hand with the gay emphasis. The amount of heaven/ hell/ church/ etc imagery in dance club culture just never seems to go away.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
The amount of heaven/ hell/ church/ etc imagery in dance club culture just never seems to go away.
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Agreed…funny (if not disturbing) how today, even culture (even the innocent aspects) which offend the sensitivities of some are viewed as relating to heaven/hell/church…God created music as a joyful outlet.

Don’t like it, don’t listen or support it…but don’t force your morality on others.
 
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