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sicsidsimp666 · 2 years

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The End, So Far Album Review

Hello. It's Toad. And this post is all about the new album that Slipknot put out and my thoughts live time while listening to it. This means that they are unfiltered. That being said please understand that I am thankful they shared their art with us yet again, and a review is merely my own opinion of how the music made me feel and my experience while listening to it.

It's not an argumentative point nor do I wish to have a Socratic seminar on the internet. Spoiler Toad’s real personality is not Ben Shapiro so I don't really enjoy having frivolous little scuffles with people who I am largely unacquainted with. I’m not sure I made a gain in life anytime that I engaged in an argument on the internet.

However, I love sharing knowledge with others and conversing (and for those of you who don't know arguing and conversing/learning new views are not the same thing!!!). Okay now that I've attracted people who like to fight bahaha let's get on to the review :)

Adderall: (4/10)

Reminds me of a musical

Acid trip influenced?

I feel like I'm slightly in the 70s

Overall eh and seems out of place, but new styles are always a great idea

The Dying Song: (9/10)

Already knew this one was a banger

Angry. I am in love.

Great message

Still can't be early Slipknot tho, but that's okay that's why the other albums are recorded and can be listened to at any time. They don't need to be the same to still be Slipknot.

The Chapeltown Rag: (10/10)

God damn I love this song

Make hyper brain feel very happy

Message is also good

Sid doing work? Okayyyyy!

The fucking breakdown at 1:37 ughhh 😩 Yummy.

Corey's deep voice power here is really showcased 👀

Yen: (8/10)

Like the spooky/eerie video and vibes

The guitar goes hard

We love to see Rat's solo!

Corey's voice really be horny hours

Chorus is a banger

Overall song is good, a little repetitive is all.

Hive Mind: (8/10)

Very much so like the spooky start. I feel like a terminator invader alien

Okayyyy go get it Jim, Mick, and Alessandro!

We can hear Clown and his shiny keg. We love.

Jay's getting a workout, too

Alien sounds are banging

Love the energy and anger of the song. Reminiscent of young Slipknot.

Warranty: (4/10)

Okay right away has me pumped

We are still in a spaceship

Hmmm not really vibing with this one. Seems a little slapped together.

I feel meh. It didn't really capture my attention.

Medicine for the Dead: (3/10)

I'm in a Scooby-Doo episode where it is set in a swamp and there is something swimming in the water.

The tempo is nice and feels powerful and is very methodical.

Song really made me realize how Corey's singing style has changed and grown

I don't know if I like the up and down/soft and heavy style :/

Acidic: (2/10)

I can see Shawn put his ✨artiste✨ mind to work here with all the intros

Feels very sinister in the opening

God damnit Corey keeps normally singing and I wanna just hear anger 😂 but still at least it is new and fresh

The guitar solo tho. Who's getting their dick sucked??? 👀👀👀

Ending was sort of strange and gave 70's vibes again

Overall not a fan of the new style here.

Heirloom (1/10)

Okay Sid go off I guess

Corey if you don't start screaming so help me God. Good on you tho for calming down in life 😂

I just. Everyone else is amazing. Really upped their skill set. Corey. You are on thin ice [please know that toad understands how amazing Corey's skill set is, this comment is made in jest. Please relax].

Did they accidentally put a stone sour song on the Slipknot album? 😂 @in-death-we-fall @custer-mp3

H377: (9/10)

I'm not getting my hopes up even tho the intro is dope

Finally we have remembered our roots as a nu-metal band

Tempo? Chef's kiss! 🤌🏻

Can't wait to go off like a crack squirrel when this comes on

Corey could sound a little more. Like. Angry? I don't know, just not like Corey quite yet.

Great guitar work again

Amazing

De Sade: (4/10)

Great seamless carry-over into the next song.

Nice Jay spotlight for a little

Whatever Corey repeats is um. Interesting? Hahaha

We pick up tempo and energy in the middle

Lots of high-pitched guitar which isn't bad, just something newer

Very nice base playing ♥️

The drawn out guitar after "why" is smexy

The "stab stab stab" in the background of the end guitar solo was lowkey funny and made me think of: who let Sid in the recording booth lmao

Overall just meh towards it, not bad tho.

Finale: (5/10)

Okay so we got like a melody violin and piano fairy in a cave thing going on?

Building up slowly

I like the layers of the chorus

Monkeys "oooohahahaha" very uhhh unique?

Guitar and base at like ≈3:00 is nice

We got some opera.

Song seemed to have the tone of coming to an acceptance that wasn’t necessarily wanted.

Melancholy??

It was a great statement piece. Not my style.

Overall: (6/10)

Great they still put out music.

Trying new styles is great, dont want it to be stale they just didn’t vibe with me which is fine

For me 50/50 love/hate the songs.

Separate from Sone Sour for the most part, but definitely the most mixed that Slipknot has been with them and their style.

Probably my least favorite album.

Will continue to listen to it and see if it grows on me more. I initially didn’t like WANYK also so things tend to grow better on me over time.

#Slipknot #The End So Far #album review #Toad Review #sid wilson #jay weinberg #alessandro venturella #tortilla man #Jim Root #Craig Jones #shawn crahan #Mick Thomson #Corey Taylor #0 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8

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nefretemerson · 9 months

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full article under the cut :)

When I was growing up in a conservative evangelical community, one of the top priorities was to manage children’s consumption of art. The effort was based on a fairly straightforward aesthetic theory: Every artwork has a clear message, and consuming messages that conflict with Christianity will harm one’s faith. Helpfully, there was a song whose lyrics consisted precisely of this aesthetic theory: “Input Output.”

Input, output, What goes in is what comes out. Input, output, That is what it’s all about. Input, output, Your mind is a computer whose Input, output daily you must choose.

The search for the “inputs” of secular artwork sometimes took a paranoid form—such as the belief in subliminal messages recorded in reverse, or in isolated frames from Lion King where smoke allegedly forms the word sex. Most often, however, the analysis was more direct. Portraying a behavior or describing a belief, unless accompanied immediately by a clear negative judgment, is an endorsement and a recommendation, and people who consume such messages will become more likely to behave and believe in that way.

This theory underwrote the whole edifice of Christian contemporary music, which aimed to replace a particularly powerful avenue for negative messages. One of my running jokes for many years has been that all Top 40 music is effectively Christian contemporary music now; American Idol confirmed the hegemony of the “praise band” vocal style. More clear is the fact that all mainstream criticism—especially of film and television—is evangelical in form, if not in content. Every artwork is imagined to have a clear message; the portrayal of a given behavior or belief is an endorsement and a recommendation; consumption of artwork with a given message will directly result in the behaviors or beliefs portrayed. This is one of the few phenomena where the “both sides” cliché is true: Left-wing critics are just as likely to do this as their right-wing opponents. For every video of a right-wing provocateur like Ben Shapiro decrying the woke excesses of Barbie, there is a review praising the Mattel product tie-in as a feminist fable.

Here, however, I am more concerned with the critical practices of my comrades on the left. Among leftist publications, Jacobin stands out for its reductive and moralizing cultural coverage. Addressing the other major movie of this past weekend, for instance, the critic Eileen Jones worried in a recent column, “If you’re already convinced of the dangers of nuclear war, superseded only by the ongoing end-times series of rolling climate catastrophes that now seem more likely to kill us all, this film is going to lack a certain urgency.” Sadly, instead of an educational presentation on nuclear war, film audiences will instead find a biopic that takes some liberties with its subject’s life and character for the sake of creating a Hollywood blockbuster. Jones finds more to like in Barbie, despite “the familiar, toothless, you-go-girl pseudo-feminist pieties that Mattel has been monetizing for decades, alongside the nostalgic how-can-our-consumer-products-be-bad affirmations of Barbie as some sort of magic, wholesomely progressive uniter of generations of mothers and daughters.”

This trend is not limited to one publication. It is pervasive in online culture, above all on social media. For instance, over coffee on the morning after the epic Barbenheimer Friday, I learned some disturbing facts about Oppenheimer on Twitter. At least one viewer was worried that the film about the man who created the nuclear bomb did not include any Japanese characters. Indeed, it did not even directly portray his invention’s horrific consequences. Surely this aesthetic choice was meant to minimize his actions by rendering his victims invisible. (An article in New York magazine drew attention to the same absence.) I also learned that the area surrounding Los Alamos was actually cleared of Indigenous and Hispanic residents, another bit of history that is effectively erased by the film.

Let’s imagine, though, that those complaints had been anticipated and addressed. Let’s imagine an entire subplot of a family going about their business in Hiroshima. We get to know and like them, to relate to them as our fellow human beings. Then, shockingly, they are incinerated by a nuclear blast. One can already hear the complaints. If the family were portrayed as too morally upstanding, it would be a dehumanizing portrayal that idealizes them as perfect victims. If they had moral flaws, the film would be subtly suggesting that they deserved their fate. And either way, the film would be attacked for offering up their suffering as a spectacle for our enjoyment. The same would go for the displaced population of Los Alamos—by portraying them as passive victims with no agency, critics would surely complain, the film would be reinscribing white authority.

Obviously leftists do not have to be as paranoid in their quest for messages supportive of the status quo as Christians playing their records backwards in the hopes of finding satanic content. And of course we are a long way from having anything like the real-world thought police of Stalinism. During that dark era of Soviet history, writers and artists were expected to subscribe to the standards of socialist realism—which, instead of portraying the sordid and brutal reality of the present, anticipated the future reality of socialism by showing heroic workers building a utopian society. Those who fell short of those ideological expectations could expect a personal phone call from Comrade Stalin, if not worse. By contrast, it seems relatively harmless to hope that films and TV shows might reflect one’s own politics and to lament when they fail to do so. Yet the very fact that the demand is so open-ended that it is impossible to imagine an artwork meeting its largely unstated and unarticulated standards shows that something has gone wrong here.

To be clear, I don’t want to defend Oppenheimer in any way. I have not actually seen the film. Nothing anyone is saying is necessarily wrong; it’s just not interesting. Like most film and TV viewers, I read reviews because I want to decide whether or not to see a given movie or show, or else to think it through from a fresh perspective. For example, I note that Oppenheimer is very long—how is the pacing? Does it maintain a clear focus throughout, or does it indulge the common vice of biopics by trying to cram too much in? The type of critical literature that concerns me does not address such basic aesthetic questions, or does so only incidentally.

Even more insidiously, though, the logical goal of such very narrow standards could be to create artwork that is straightforward political propaganda. We’ve seen how badly that turned out for the evangelicals (and, indeed, for the Stalinists). Even if we are unlikely to face the scourge of a Leninist equivalent to VeggieTales, however, this style of criticism infantilizes its audience members by assuming they are essentially ideology-processing machines—unlike the wise commentator who somehow manages to see through the deception.

Political problems cannot be solved on the aesthetic level. And it’s much more likely that people are consuming politics as a kind of aesthetic performance or as a way of expressing aesthetic preferences than that they are somehow reading their politics off Succession, for example (“Welp, I guess rich people are good now. Better vote Republican!”). Just as the reduction of art to political propaganda leads to bad art, the aestheticization of politics leads to bad, irresponsible politics. That’s because aesthetics and politics are not the same thing. They are not totally unrelated, obviously, but they are also and even primarily different. A political message can be part of an aesthetic effect, just as a political movement can benefit from an aesthetic appeal. But we get nowhere if we confuse or collapse these categories.

This story was adapted from a post on Adam Kotsko's blog, An Und Für Sich.

#oppenheimer #barbie #the appreciation of art done merely thru the lens of virtue is so Boring #and so deeply familiar #the evangelical/fundamentalist christians did it first and they're still doing it better lmaooo #the milquetoast christian 'art' scene is so wonderfully expansive and so unbelievably dull

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fudgetunblr · 9 months

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I started watching Ben Shapiro's review of Barbie because I had to hear his terrible takes and bestie, you ever just listen to someone not get it?

Here's a recap so you don't waste your time_

Starts off by burning a Barbie

"This movie is for moms and eight year old girls" (no, it's not Ben.)

He complains about the references like Space odyssey and the Godfather. Citizens united.

Says it's anti-mothers (way to miss the point asshole)

women and men can only exist if they're separate from each other (girl)

Ken only lives for Barbie (yeah bitch, do you know who Ken is????)

He keeps bringing up that it's a kids movie, like NO IT'S NOT

* insert transphobic comment*

"the makers of the film hate Barbie" no

"the catcalling is inaccurate" -_-

He talks about how maybe it will end with Barbie and Ken seeing each other as equals and then goes "wrong it goes back to women ruling everything and that's the best version of the world" (ummm, did you not watch the movie orrr??????????)

Now he's bringing up how the real Mattel has women on the board (way to miss the point)

at this point I sped up the video because he's saying the same thing over and over yet is saying nothing at the same time

complains about Sasha's speech and how Barbie's character is inconsistent

"ALL THE PATRIARCHY"

"Proust, whooo"

"the point of the film is that matriarchy is amazing" (no)

"calls her baby, the greatest insult"

"If women enjoy men they are brainwashed by the patriarchy"

"wise weird lesbian Barbie"

"Either you are brainwashed or weird and ugly"

complains about Gloria's speech.

"Get the Barbie's away from the Ken's."

talking about how some men like women (no shit)

"this is what it's about, women wanting to wear pants"

"it makes no sense"

complains about the Ken fight and song

"Learns that men and women should be separate" (no)

"After all this whole story is just Pinocchio"

complains about Barbie seeing the footage of women living

"it is your vagina" (no)

"being biologically female is the only thing that matters" (no, that's not the point)

complains it's not funny

says it will damage the Barbie brand

notice how it's all the same shit over and over and over and over and over

rating: Negative all the Barbie's

"It's a dogs breakfast of films"¨

finally over. someone missed the point of the film I see.

#barbie #barbie movie #barbie spoilers

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blakg92 · 6 months

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Ben Shapiro-This Song Has 16 9M Views And I'm Disturbed (Reaction/Review)

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terryballs · 3 years

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“All You Need Is Love” is perhaps the worst song the Beatles ever wrote. No, you do not only need love. You also need food, water, shelter, a strong judicial system that upholds property rights, and Judeo-Christian morality.

#ben shapiro #ben shapiro song reviews #the beatles #all you need is love

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theda-rison · 4 years

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Thursday Night Link Roundup - August 27th

Let’s dive in like people ignoring the “Shallow! Don’t dive!” signs.

So like, I knew that the United States Postal Service was Super Good, and, Very Important. I lived in Scotland for a year and while the free healthcare was everything I’d hoped it would be, I would take the USPS over the Royal Mail any day of the week. I don’t know if it was because I was living in student accommodations or something, but the USPS seems like way less of a pain in the ass to deal with (though I will say, the people working in the RM stores I went to were very nice. Wait, the people at one place were nice, the people at the other place were like, “eh.” But I had moved flats and couldn’t go to the first place anymore >_>).

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Well then! Thank you Cody’s Showdy (Some More News) and your information about how the USPS has been slowly degraded and eroded away - mostly by republicans - over the decades. Like… I know they’re all neoliberals a la Reagan or Thatcher and they want to privatize everything, but can’t we just accept that some things are things we’re supposed to have? Like, as humans who exist on this planet who need things to be able to continue to exist?

But then like… there’s a reason why I’m the Family Socialist.

I was deadlifting when I started this video and when the “jaywalking, punk anarchist!” part came up I laughed and dropped the weight. It’s Radical Reviewer with an essay on the stupidity of conservatives pretending that protestors and leftists are making 1984 happen.

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I get that PragerU is just propaganda and that Dave Ruben is a propagandist, but I feel like they have to had sold their souls or something to be so intentionally obtuse and not be just… curling inwardly on themselves from the gravitational waves of how dense they are. Like… anyone could read the book and be like “No, you’re wrong,” but Dave blocks people on Twitter, so how would he ever hear them?

Also, Orwell was a socialist so to take his book and literally do the doublespeak shit in the book at his own book?

Speaking of “yikes” did everyone else see Ben Shapiro just own himself like the slavery that he claims wasn’t bad? Love Kurtis Conner’s take: “I fell on my keyboard and my hands typed out ‘WAP Cardi B Megan Thee Stallion I’m Horny’ and the video came up and I accidentally clicked on it and I accidentally watched the whole thing.” Like, how do you “accidentally” watch a video?

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You know when you’re in high school and you know someone who’s completely bothered by something or someone and they say, “I don’t even care! I don’t even care! I don’t even care! I don’t even care! I don’t even care!” about 40 times and you’re just looking at them blankly and you’ve just been doing Shakespeare in English class so you’re like, “Methinks the lady doth protest too much,” regardless of their gender? All of the conservative blustering over the song feels like that.

Great song, btw.

So, spoilers, if you haven’t watched Westworld. I haven’t, but I like to live dangerously. Here’s Just Write with Westworld And The Trouble With Ensembles.

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So the reason why I wanted to watch this when it popped up was because my comic that I wrote during July (and part of August) is an ensemble cast. So, I think this did a lot to answer my questions on how to make a story with an ensemble cast be good and not a mess, and it even brought up some things that I hadn’t thought of, so, thanks Just Write.

This week’s silliness: When you hit a tritone in medieval times by Daniel Thrasher.

(I bet he doesn’t even skate.)

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Just everything about this sketch is great. The king, the knight, the jester, the demon, all of it. I just love the king as a character, he reminds me of something out of a Mel Brooks movie.

Songs of the Week:

I'm a member of the Midnight Crew - (posted by) Amanda met Snor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjhbLDJzXAs

Is this song from--? Yes, it is. And we are all going to sit here and enjoy it!

This song is from 1909 by the way. I just find that kind of cool.

Inception 'Time' , Hans Zimmer - Kalimba cover. - IPIDA SOUND

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGqsKAD6ZA8

I really like the way the song sounds on a kalimba. (I’ve thought about buying one and hoooo boy, are they expensive.) I also just love their cat hanging out nicely while they play. Adorable.

System of a Down - Aerials - Medieval Style - Bardcore - Algal the Bard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAVkuRKwuDI

I think, for whenever I get married, I want to hire a band to play metal music, but in a medieval/renaissance way. Ooh, maybe I’ll make everyone do country dances. The Jane Austen kind. Just for funzies, lol.

It’ll be like: “Why aren’t you dancing? You’re the bride.” “They’re very sweaty dances.”

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objectivesubjectivity · 5 years

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Second Chances: “A” Albums

The following are “A” albums I wanted to give another shot at Top 100 Condenterdom and/or favorite “A” albums of my peers. This is their last chance to continue on in the quest.

The Beatles - Abbey Road

For what it’s worth, my mom was an avid Beatles fan and procured most of their records in her teenage years. However, a handful of these albums were met with a sharpie from her sister who decided, if her name was on the item, it was hers. I’m pretty sure Abbey Road was one of those albums because I don’t remember seeing it on our record shelves growing up. Perhaps that is one of the reasons I don’t find it to be, as a facebook friend once commented, “not so much an album as it is a magical ray of sunlight dropped from heaven to prove that perfection is possible.” Don’t get me wrong, it’s a very good album with very good songs and a killer ending opus, I just find it flawed in ways I don’t have the history to overlook.

And this brings up a larger conversation about subjectivity and objectivity. I have long held the belief that the more people agree upon a certain opinion, the blurrier the line becomes between subjective and objective. “Graceland” being a “good” album is nearly an objective fact. Motown at a wedding party: “good.” the final season of Game of Thrones: “bad.” These are purely subjective takes that have found enough consensus to almost become objectively true. But how we land on that subjectivity in the first place makes a difference. And, for my money, it seems to be a combination of personal history and social influence.

Think about it: Most of the opinions on the Beatles I come across stem from a deep history with the band. It helps that plenty of my peer group had parents who grew up in the hayday of Beatlemania and that adoration has filtered down through the generations. One might wonder, as Danny Boyle recently did, if one wasn’t to grow up on the fab-four, and was instead introduced to them much later in life, would this same reverence take hold? Or would they go down the Ben Shapiro “overrated” route?

And then there’s social influence. The more people that subscribe to a similar opinion, the wider that net becomes and the easier it is to access, often with less work. Take Nickleback for instance. I would put money down that most people who equate that band with the anti-Christ haven’t listened to more than a handful of hits. The general consensus is that Nickleback is “bad,” and so it’s much easier to stick to that opinion than to do the work necessary in actually forming it for yourself. Case in point: I personally received quite a bit of social media scorn for expressing enjoyment of Puddle of Mudd’s “Come Clean” (sorry, it’s an enjoyable listen).

So back to Abbey Road. Clearly, in the musical world, there is consensus regarding this particular album (although even the Pitchfork 10/10 review doesn’t understand the appeal of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”), which makes my subjective opinion stick out like a sore thumb. And that sore thumb feels immense pressure from the musical zeitgeist to heal itself and become part of the fold. It is much easier to plop down in the wide, comfortable hammock of belief than to bear the weight of the side-eye, scoffs, and shame when you choose the stubborn old rocking chair.

But I’m choosing to do the work on my opinions. Over 3 years worth of work. And objectively, I’m sticking to my subjectivity and leaving Abbey Road off the list.

R.E.M. - Accelerate

“Accelerate” initially jumped out at me because it accomplishes a rare feat: it actually sounds like a return to form. Mind you, the form it’s returning to is more “Monster” than “Murmur” but it’s light years away from “Around the Sun,” and to call that a welcome change would be a massive understatement. But it’s also light years away from “Automatic for the People” and “Life’s Rich Pageant.” And seeing that the latter didn’t make the cut the first time around, there’s no way this album’s gonna make it either.

U2 - Achtung Baby

This is a recent pick up and only got the second listen because a friend ranked it as one of their top “A” albums. In fact, I’ve only recently acquired any U2 albums at all. I don’t think I’ve spent enough time with them on the whole to make an opinion on which one of their albums I like the most and whether or not it belongs on this list.

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

If you were to ask me, going into this week, what album had the highest likelihood of landing a spot on the list, I would have told you this one. I had only listened to it once (I grabbed a copy of it mid-way through phase one) but it made an immediate impression upon me and I was eagerly awaiting a second listen. So it came as a surprise that I was left feeling underwhelmed upon a second spin.

But then I happened to be at a friend’s party on Saturday and this friend put me in charge of choosing a record to play. There was a stack left on top of a speaker and hanging out underneath a stack of reggae compilations and a dusty copy of “Graceland,” there it was.

Perhaps I should add fate to that “history + social influence = subjectivity” equation because, after one more listen this morning, the contender list bumped back up to 119 again. Congrats, Neil.

Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz

This is a really good example of how loose and free I was at the start of this journey. This album is far too overwrought to warrant a possible Top 100 slot and yet, I dabbled with that thought way back in 2016. Also, he’s still got two albums on the contender list, so there’s no big loss here.

fun. - Aim and Ignite

This album is a great example of what happens when there are no wrong answers and that’s probably why it struck me so hard the first go around. But while that limitlessness brings about ample moments of unexpected brilliance, it also can feel like no one’s really helming the ship and there are only so many times I can find joy in getting lost.

Steely Dan - Aja

Ultimately, it’s too jazzy for me, but I don’t regret giving it another solid listen. And I love me some “Peg.”

Grateful Dead - American Beauty

This was a tough one. On the one hand, these are 10 well-crafted tunes that clock in at a respectable 42 minutes and make for a very comfortable (and comforting) ride. On the other hand, they’re played with a looseness and devil-may-care attitude that, honestly, feels a bit disrespectful. But then again, I’m not a dead head; I’ve never quite understood the thrill of a 10 (20? 30?) minute solo. And to someone who lives for those meandering discoveries, perhaps the sloppiness is as necessary as the thoughtful arrangement. Perhaps those moments of infallibility make it all the more human and endearing. “American Beauty,” is staying off the list for now but it’s probably not the last time I’ll give it a good listen on this quest.

Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves

There are only so many ways you can go from the 1 to the 4 or the 5. And the more I listen to this album, the more that sentiment rings true.

OutKast - ATLiens & Aquemini

It may be a couple years before I get to “Stankonia,” the OutKast album currently on the Top 100 Contender list, but I cannot listen to these albums without thinking about its strange and circuitous path and how that keeps its 24(!) tracks fresh. Both “ATLiens” and “Aquemini,” are stunningly forward thinking and ambitious, but their journeys’ aren’t nearly as thrilling or strange as “Stankonia.” And I can’t seem to get over that hump.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

I don’t do enough drugs for this to make the list.

It’s also not fair to judge this album solely on the US version, seeing that the track listing on the UK one is vastly different. But both contain “Third Stone from the Sun.” And I just can’t dig it man.

What I listened to last week:

Top 100 contenders in bold.

The Beatles - Abbey Road

R.E.M. - Accelerate

U2 - Achtung Baby

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz

fun. - Aim and Ignite

Steely Dan - Aja

Grateful Dead - American Beauty

Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves

OutKast - Aquemini

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced

OutKast - ATLiens

Albums listened to in total: 2,283

Top 100 Contenders: 119

Next week’s album: Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2 (Or, The Last Remains of the Dodo)

Think I missed an album? Challenge me! The list is alphabetical by letter.

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jewishshadowhunters · 6 years

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Judaism 101: Torah

The word “Torah” is tricky to define, because it can mean different things in different contexts. In its most limited sense, “Torah” refers to the Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. But the word “torah” can also be used to refer to the entire Jewish bible (the body of scripture known to non-Jews as the Old Testament and to Jews as the Tanakh or Written Torah).

In its broadest sense, “Torah” can refer to the whole body of Jewish law and teachings.

Below we talk about the Tanakh (written Torah), Talmud (Oral Torah), and other important texts.

Written Torah/Tanakh

To Jews, there is no “Old testament”. The books that Christians call the New Testament are not part of Jewish scripture. The so-called Old Testament is known to us as Written Torah or the Tanakh.

Below is a list of the books of Written Torah, in the order in which they appear in Jewish translations, with the Hebrew name of the book, a translation of the Hebrew name (in the case the translation is different from the English name) and English name of the book.

The Hebrew names are derived from the first few words of the book. The text of each book is more or less the same in Jewish translations as what you see in Christian bibles, although there are occasional, slight differences in the numbering of the verses, and other more significant in the translations.

TORAH (The Law):

Bereishith (In the beginning...) (Genesis)

Shemoth (The names...) (Exodus)

Vayiqra (And He called...) (Leviticus)

Bamidbar (In the wilderness...) (Numbers)

Devarim (The words...) (Deuteronomy)

NEVI’IM (The Prophets)

Yehoshua (Joshua)

Shoftim (Judges)

Shmuel (I &II Samuel)

Melakhim (I & II Kings)

Yeshayah (Isaiah)

Yirmyah (Jeremiah)

Yechezqel (Ezekiel)

The Twelve (treated as one book):

Hoshea (Hosea)

Yoel (Joel)

Amos

Ovadyah (Obadiah)

Yonah (Jonah)

Mikhah (Micah)

Nachum

Chavaqquq (Habbakkuk)

Tzefanyah (Zephaniah)

Chaggai

Zekharyah (Zechariah)

Malakhi

KETHUVIM (The Writings):

Tehillim (Psalms)

Mishlei (Proverbs)

Iyov (Job)

Shir Ha-Shirim (Song of Songs)

Ruth

Eikhah (Lamentations)

Qoheleth (the author's name) (Ecclesiastes)

Esther

Daniel

Ezra & Nechemyah (Nehemiah) (treated as one book)

Divrei Ha-Yamim (The words of the days) (Chronicles)

“Tanakh”, the term used to refer to the Written Torah is an acrostic of Torah, Nevi’im and Ketuvim.

The Torah Scrolls

The scriptures that we use in services are written on parchment scrolls. Always handwritten, they are in attractive Hebrew calligraphy with “crowns” (crows-foot-like marks coming up from the upper points) on many of the letters.

This style of writing is called STA”M (abbreviation for “Sifrei Torah, Tefillin, and Mezuzot”, which is where you will see that style of writing).

You are not supposed to touch the parchment on these scrolls. Some say it is because they are too holy, some say because the parchment, made from animal skins, is a source of ritual defilement, some say because your fingers’ sweat has acid that will damage parchment over time.

Instead, you follow the text with a pointer, called a Yad. “Yad” means “hand” in Hebrew, and the pointer usually is in the shape of hand with a pointing index finger.

The scrolls are kept covered with fabric, and often ornamented with silver crowns on the handles of the scrolls and a silver breastplate on the front.

They are kept in a cabinet in the synagogue called an “ark” (as in the Ark of the Covenant,not Noah’s ark. The words are different and unrelated in Hebrew. Noah’s ark is called teyvat (ship), while the synagogue ark is either an acrostic of “aron kodesh” or holy cabinet or coming from the latin “arca”.)

The Torah scrolls that we read in synagogue are unpointed text, with no vowels or musical notes, so the ability to read a passage is a valuable skill, and usually requires substantial advance preparation.

Chumash

Jewish scriptures are sometimes bound in a form that corresponds to the division into weekly readings (called parshiyot in Hebrew). Scriptures bound in this way are generally referred to as a chumash. This word came from the Hebrew word for five, and refers to the five books of the Torah. Sometimes, a chumash refers to a collection of the five books. But often, a chumash contains the entirety of the first five books, divided up in weekly parshiyot, with the haftarah portion inserted after each week’s parshah.

Oral Torah/Talmud

In addition to the Written Torah, we have an “Oral Torah”, a tradition explaining what the scriptures mean and how to interpret and apply the Laws. Orthodox Jews believe that G-d taught the Talmud to Moses, and that he in turn taught it to others. Talmud was maintained in oral form only until about the 2nd Century CE, when it was compiled and written down in a document called the Mishnah?

Over the following centuries, additional commentaries elaborating the Mishnah were written down in Jerusalem and Babylon. These additions are known as the Gemara. Mishnah and Gemara together form the Talmud, complete in the 5th century CE.

There are as a result two Talmuds. The Jerusalem Talmud, and the Babylonian Talmud, known to be the more comprehensive one, and the one most people refer to when saying “The Talmud.”

Additional commentaries on the talmud have been made by noted Jewish scholars such as Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchakià) and Rambam (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known to the secular world as Maimonides.)

Adin Steinsaltz recently completed a new edition of the Talmud, with his own commentary instead of the Mishnah, Gemara and Rashi commentaries.

The Talmud is not easy to read. It’s like someone else’s class notes for a college lecture you never attended. There are often gaps in the reasoning where it is assumed the reader known what they are talking about, and concepts can often be expressed in a short-hand fashion. Biblical verses supporting a teaching are often referenced by only a couple of words. The Talmud preserves a variety of views on every issue, and does not always clearly identify which view is the accepted one.

The Mishnah itself is divided into six sections called sedarim (orders, English). Each seder contains one or more divisions called masekhtot (tractates, English). There are 63 masekhtot in the Mishnah. Approximately half of these have been addressed in the Talmud.

Though those divisions seem to indicate subject matter, we note that Mishnah and Talmud engage in a lot of free-associations. As a result, widely different subjects can be discussed in the same seder or masekhtah.

Zera'im (Seeds), dealing with agricultural laws

Berakhot

Peah

Demai

Kilayim

Shebiit

Terumot

Maaserot

Maaser Sheni

Challah

Orlah

Bikkurim

Mo'ed (Festival), dealing with Shabbat and festivals

Shabbat

Erubin

Pesachim

Sheqalim

Yoma

Sukkah

Besah

Rosh Hashanah

Taanit

Megillah

Moed Qatan

Hagigah

Nashim (Women), dealing with marriage, divorce and contracts

Yebamot

Ketubot

Nedarim

Nazir

Sotah

Gittin

Qiddushin

Nezikin (Damages), dealing with tort laws and other financial laws

Baba Qamma

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Sanhedrin

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Eduyyot

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Avot (also known as Pirkei Avot, Ethics of the Fathers)

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Kodashim (Holy Things), dealing with sacrifices and the Temple

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Temurah

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Qinnim

Toharot (Purities), dealing with laws of ritual purity and impurity

Kelim

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Negaim

Parah

Tohorot

Miqvaot

Niddah

Makhshirin

Zabim

Tebul-Yom

Yadayim

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In recent times, many observant Jews have taken up the practice of studying a page of Talmud every day. This practice, referred to as daf yomi (page of the day), was started at the First International Congress of the Agudath Yisrael World Movement in August, 1923. Rav Meir Shapiro, the rav of Lublin, Poland, proposed uniting people worldwide through the daily study of a page of Talmud. Daf Yomi started its 12th cycle on March 2, 2005. The 13th cycle was started in 2013, and has yet to finish.

Other Writings

In addition to these works, we have midrashim, stories expanding on the incidents in the Bible to derive principles or Jewish law; or teaching moral lessons.

There is also a vast body of responsa, answers to specific questions of Jewish law. Beginning in the middle ages, when local rabbis were faced with difficult issues of Jewish law, they often wrote to the most respected rabbis in the world to get answers to these questions. The local rabbi would present the situation, often including detailed references to the Talmudic passages he had reviews, his own interpretations and the world-respected rabbi would provide a reasoned argument in favor of his answer. Over time, these responsa were collected into printed volumes. This tradition continues to the present day, with responsa dealing with issues relating to modern technologies. We have responsa on the permissibility of cosmetic surgery, the kashering of dishwashers, and artificial insemination. We are currently in the process of computerizing the thousands of volumes of responsa.

As you can see, the body of Jewish tradition is very vast.

In the Middle Ages, for quick answers, there were several attempts to create definite codes of Jewish law. The best-known are Rambam’s Mishneh Torah and Joseph Caro’s Shulchan Arukh. These works were very controversial in their own time, because they did not identify the sources, whether Talmudic or Torah, for these opinions, and generally ignored conflicting voices. There was a concern that such works would discourage Jews from studying the Torah and the Talmud. Today, these sources are well-respected, and the Shulchan Arukh is often treated as primary source.

We asl have a mystical tradition, own as Kabbalah. The primary written work in Kabbalistic tradition is the Zohar. Traditionally, rabbis discouraged teaching this material to anyone under the age of 40, because it is too likely to be misinterpreted by anyone without sufficient grounding in the basics.

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Bass YouTube is Best YouTube

So, what have I been up to while this place was collecting cobwebs? Mostly house things, a lot of medical stuff, no small amount of avoiding doing stuff I’m supposed to do, and, when there was time, I watched a lot of YouTube, which is something I’ve never done before.

I’ve been missing out.

I’ve been complaining for years about the lack of a la carte television and I’ve known the whole time that you can find pretty much anything you want on YouTube, but I never it together. Nicole, on the other hand, has been on this forever and I suspect she thinks it’s cute that I’m just now coming around. Not for the first time, if I’m being honest.

Anyway, I wanted to share some of the channels that I’ve found to be the most fun.

Music and, most importantly, bass: Adam Neely: Adam’s channel was my gateway to music YouTube. He’s a pretty theory heavy dude, but I find him informative and funny and he’s a heck of a communicator. He’s one of the proponents of bass guitar as the greatest instrument and that’s a bit I can’t help but respect. As much as I enjoyed the chugga chugga choo choo episode, I’d start with The Worst Jazz Solo of All Time.

Davie504: With almost 10m subscribers, Davie504 isn’t terribly obscure, but if you’re not familiar with him, this is your wake-up call. He’s an incredibly silly Italian bassist who is aces at creating a character, staying in character, and making terrific videos. You’d think the joke would wear thin, but it hasn’t yet for me. Oh, and kind of surprisingly, he can really play, too. I’d start with Can I Play the Top Basslines of All Times?

Samuraiguitarist: Easily my favorite Canadian country guitarist. Sammy G is at his best when talking about gear and technique, which is a nice break from some of the more theory-heavy channels I watch. He’s near the top of the list of “YouTube personalities I think I’d enjoy in real life.” Start with Testing Gimmicky Guitar Gadgets.

12Tone: Speaking of theory-heavy, this is one of the best channels out there for making music theory interesting and fun. His deal is making doodles that go along with what he’s talking about and there are all kinds of neat Easter eggs in them. He gets a little salty sometimes too, which is a lot of fun. If you’re into that sort of thing, go check out: Why Ben Shapiro Is Wrong About Rap.

Espen Kraft: Espen Kraft IS the 80s. He’ll tell you as much, too. He’s a musician/producer/gearhead after my own heart and he lives for making 80s style music with 80s gear. It’s great fun if you remember the 80s, which is something I most definitely do. While if it were me, I’d go straight to him talking about my beloved DW-8000, maybe start with 10 Iconic Synth Sounds.

Bad Gear: This channel is by far the most formulaic, but it’s a great formula: He reviews the most hated audio gear of the past. It ticks all the boxes: A discussion of why the gear is reviled, a demo of it, a couple of song featuring it, pros, cons, and, as always, a conclusion. The Bad Gear- Akai Tom Cat - The Better Rhythm Wolf??? episode is one of my favorites.

My favorite thing about music YouTube is watching these folks interact and reference each other. I watch a lot of music YouTube. Other good ones;

Simon The Magpie: Gear hacker who has more imagination than is good for him. Look Mum No Computer: You do NOT want to see the Furby organ… ixi music: Local artist’s deep dive into Nine Inch Nails. Very, very deep dive into it. The 8-Bit Guy: Texas guy who works with old home keyboards and computers. Sonicstate: Good channel. Needs more PWM. Jorb: Another gear guy. Kindred spirit. Syntaur: Local synth parts/sales place. Carlos is a great guy. Alamo Music Audio Lab: Local music store’s channel.

Educational and Related Channels:

Insider: There’s a lot to love here. What I’m binging right now are the “How Real Is It?” videos, where experts go over how well movies and TV shows portray their specialist subject. I started with the Master Pickpocket Breaks Down 12 Pocketing Tricks In Movies and found myself just watching everything that came after.

The LockPickingLawyer: This channel is, if you hadn’t guessed, more about the lock picking than the lawyering. Mostly, he demonstrates how shockingly easy it is for him to pick most popular, well-reviewed locks. There are some bad locks out there, folks. This one’s my favorite: Locksmith Says My Videos Are BS… Loses $75 (Maybe).

Vox: OK, so, I have a distant relationship to Vox media but no money changes hands so that’s all the disclosure I’m up for. Anyway, it’s Vox. They overproduce the crap out of their videos, but there’s some good stuff in there. Start with How a recording-studio mishap shaped ‘80s music. P.S. Prince totally stole from Phil Collins, much more so than the other way around.

Other Fun, Mostly Wholesome Stuff:

The Fish Whisperer: A guy with a fish tank on his farm befriends the animals. That’s about it. But, honestly, what more do you need? Here’s Turtles Love Pizza.

Capybara Donguri: Capybaras are perfect. You cannot have too many of them in your life. There are no bad capybara vidoes. Wait…there is one. Don’t watch that one. Watch Capybaras Are Natural Actors; They Have Such Expressive Faces and Body Language instead.

Timotainment: Do you like surrealism? Sure you do. You’ve seen memes based on this ‘un. Stonks. Pile. Angery. All classics.

Screen Rant: Just go there for the Pitch Meetings. Ryan has it down to an art and they are both a lot of fun and very insightful criticism. I’ve had friends tell me how bad certain movies were, sent them the Pitch Meeting for the film, and their response is “Yes, exactly! That’s what I was trying to say!” This is how I avoided, say, Alien Covenant for example.

There are more, of course, but that’s enough for now I figure. I hope someone finds something they like on there. Or, at least, doesn’t completely lose what little respect they had for me.

-RK

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Album Review: Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer

Despite her rise to mainstream commercial and critical success, I had somehow managed to get through 2018 without the experience of Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer. The 33-year old released her third studio album on April 27, 2018, backed by production teams Wondaland Arts Society, Bad Boy Records, and Atlantic Records. The album was accompanied by an Emotion Picture of the same name a la Beyoncé’s Lemonade.

While Lemonade made strides empowering women, particularly black women, through their sexuality, Dirty Computer takes these feminist concepts a step further into intersectionality. Both the album and Emotion Picture center on the queer black female experience; the artist has been candid over her sexuality, stating, “Being a black queer woman in America...someone who has been in relationships with both men and women—I consider myself to be a free-** motherf**ker”. Monáe is honest with her audience in ways previously unexplored, straying into autobiography and baring herself, honestly and vulnerably, only to come out the other side fortified and hopeful.

Prior to taking the time to intentionally listen to this album, I would say that I have been Janelle Monáe adjacent for a couple years. I had seen her star in the 2016 Oscar Nominees/Winners, Hidden Figures and Moonlight, and heard her featured or sampled on other artists’ work. Of course I heard the controversy stoked by the right-wing hate-monger Ben Shapiro’s winging on the obscenity of the vulva imagery in the Pynk music video (which was released separately before the full album) and saw the SJW twitter clapback. As a member of the LGBTQ community, I knew that Janelle Monáe was a big inspiration for many of my friends.

However, I could not have expected how deeply this album would touch me. I plan to invest in a vinyl record, and that’s how I know it’s real.

The film, a visually stunning production starring Janelle Monáe (as singer, writer, musician, dancer, lead actor, and director), is a stunningly well-executed, fully-formed, artistic vision. The themes of automation, lack of privacy, and the pervasiveness of technology are presented in a dystopian near-future scenario, blending sci-fi with social criticism similarly to Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale or Netflix’s Black Mirror.

“Pynk (feat. Grimes)” is definitely one of the highlights of the album for me. Grimes brings an alternative-pop grit to the single. Extremely sexual without being explicit, the restrained groove and digging guitar riffs back lyrics about the soft and feminine, the reproductive and anatomical. Flashes of lipstick, orchids, shells, and a bubbling a strawberry milkshake are interspersed with shots of Monáe and her Black Girl Magic backup dancers in “vaginapants”, covered in flowery gradient (pink) frills. It is refreshing to see black women who are so carefree, feeling themselves, and in charge of their sexuality, “Boy its cool; if you’ve got blue, We’ve got the pink”.

While the comparisons to Lemonade are inevitable, I found myself being reminded of another musical legend as I spent time with Dirty Computer. Prince makes his way into the funky guitar, sexed-up lyrics, and extravagant, gender-bending performance style. It is bittersweet that he never got to see the final product, but his presence is felt in the songwriting, none more evocative of his unique confidence than “Make Me Feel”.

I have grown into my womanhood at a time when progress clashed with traditionalism, melding my pluralistic, cynical worldview. I have grown up in a constantly fluctuating world of millions of lives projecting blue light from pixelated screens, witnessed the shrinking of privacy and authenticity. I have seen the omens of climate change in unprecedented natural disasters, watched too many massacres of schoolchildren broadcasted on the evening news, and looked on as the greed and corruption of the few have made life hard for the many. I have felt alienated, by my country, my body, the modern world, by the endless consumption of an automated capitalist culture.

Janelle Monáe provided us with the perfect antidote to the uphill battle we are all facing as we look toward the future. The artist has been open about her political views to the extent that she has involved herself in voting activism and encouraging her fans to be politically active—asking them to take charge of the future they want for America.

To anyone looking for a shot of confidence, a splash of wit, or just a really good song to jam out to, I highly recommend checking out Dirty Computer. Monáe has the stuff to become an icon for a generation, a rallying cry that resonates with not only those at the margins, but also seeps into the fabric of our popular culture to speak truth to power.

#janelle monae #dirty computer #feminist #feminism #intersectional feminism #lgbtq #lgbtpride #music #music blog #pop #hiphop #psychedelic rock #rnbmusic

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terryballs · 3 years

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What does the Fox say? Nothing. Foxes cannot talk, except of course in the childish fantasies that liberals seem to never outgrow.

#ben shapiro #ben shapiro song reviews #ylvis #what does the fox say

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bearhatarmy · 5 years

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Here’s a hot take from conservative pundit and massive transphobe music fan, Ben Shapiro. Normally I would tackle the more serious topics Ben discusses, but this really felt like it deserved a response.

Though, if I wanted to take a more serious angle, I suppose I could make the argument that rap is a huge part of the black community’s cultural identity & heritage and by belittling it, Ben is insulting and diminishing one of a marginalized group’s main creative outlets that they use to communicate their struggles.

But that would be racist! Ben isn’t racist! He is constantly explaining over and over just how not-racist he is. Which is what all non-racists have to do.

This has nothing to do with racism and Ben has some solid FACTS explaining why.

HE LIKES JAZZ, OKAY?

AND OPINIONS ARE NEVER RACIST.

I GUESS.

EVEN THOUGH HE SAID IT WAS A FACT.

So, to be clear, this will just be a not-serious analysis about Ben’s totally not-racist FACT that rap is not-music.

Let’s get this not-party started...

You see, Ben is famous for his motto, “Facts don’t care about your feelings.”

He’s even leveraged his factual wisdom and made it into merchandise.

That’s a real thing people can buy. It even has 6 whole reviews on Amazon!

Beyond the Box rated it with 3 stars saying, “It's okay but small.”

(Aww, just like Ben!)

And Tim S. described the shirt’s fit as “Liberals are destroying the country.”

(I’m pretty sure that means it’s a tad itchy.)

Before I saw Ben’s factual tweet, I really FELT like rap was an amazing musical artform. It took poetry and made it musical. It gave people a new way to express themselves that didn’t require expensive music lessons or even instruments. A friend could just bang on a table while you let it flow. It made creating music more accessible. And as long as you had good rhythm you could participate. It FELT groundbreaking at the time.

The very first cassette tape I bought was Good Vibrations by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. (I know that isn’t a great start, but I was like 10, okay?) The very first compact disc I bought was 2 Legit 2 Quit by MC Hammer. (Don’t laugh, he was the shit in 1991.) As I reached my formative years, I started listening to DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Beastie Boys, and House of Pain.

I jump’d around. (squeeEEEEEee)

But as some of you may have noticed, most of my musical selections were very mainstream. You’ve probably also noticed that I am very... white.

To this day, even! I think it is a chronic condition.

My skin is near translucent due to lack of sunlight. I often say things like “indubitably” and “bloviate” and “I’m sure this chicken will be fine with minimal seasoning.” And at one point I owned the entire Creed discography.

I was in desperate need of a Hip Hop education.

Now using the official Rules of Republican Conduct™, if I want to talk about something with a racial component, all I need is a single black friend. This will absolve me of any consequences.

Interesting Froggie Fun Fact... I went to a mostly black high school!

Check this out...

That’s TWO black friends!

Shawn is the one teaching me a complicated handshake I instantly forgot. And Marcus is photobombing us in the back there.

I wish I could say our school was super progressive and everyone got along dandy. But in the mid-90s that just wasn’t the case. There were no major conflicts, but a lot of the white kids would sort of... self segregate. They’d all choose lockers in the same area. They’d sit in the same area at lunch and in class. And not a lot of them would interact with black kids outside of school.

That said, I did not get the segregation memo. I got along with everyone. I’m not saying I was some amazing colorblind trailblazer crossing racial boundaries at every turn. My locker was in the white section too. And I only had two black friends (not pictured) that I hung out with outside of school.

But I do think humor can break down a lot of barriers. And I used comedy to cross those invisible lines from time to time.

Do you remember “Yo Mama” jokes?

Like uhhh... Yo mama so old, her social security number is 1. Yo mama so lazy, she stuck her nose out the window and let the wind blow it. Yo mama so classless, she’s a Marxist utopia.

You get it.

Before school or before class, a lot of kids would have these competitions. They would face off with their best motherly insults and typically the person who received the loudest “OH DAAAAAAMMMMN!” would be declared the winner.

One day I just kind of decided to make fun of Shawn’s mama. After a few seconds of stunned silence I got the loudest OH DAMN of anyone and we were suddenly friends. And then his friends were my friends too. Our friendship didn’t go outside the school premises, but it was still a lot of fun joking around with them at lunch or when we were supposed to be doing homework.

Shawn and I started a sort of cultural exchange. He would tell me about all of the amazing music he was into. And I explained why Batman: The Animated Series was not a kid’s cartoon. IT WAS ANIMATION. Says it right in the name.

He introduced me to a wide range of artists of color. Old and new (at the time). We talked about Boyz II Men, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince. He introduced me to Mary J Blige who I follow to this day. And Aaliyah :(

He also told me about not-music.

Ya know... rappers.

I’ll be honest, sometimes this was challenging for me. I did not like or understand everything he suggested. I had a lot of racist baggage leftover from an all-white Catholic elementary school and my brain resisted for longer than I care to admit. But after seeing Shawn’s passion for this not-music, I became rap-curious and willing to keep an open mind.

Let me try to name-drop from memory...

Puff Daddy, Lauryn Hill, Wu-Tang Clan, Naughty By Nature, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Dr. Dre, Biggie Smalls, Ice Cube, and some guy named Tupac Shakur. You’ve probably never heard of him.

He’d even sneak a Walkman in his backpack so he and his friends could sample his latest acquisitions.

He’d be like, “Hey Ben, you want to listen to some Master P?” And I’d be like, “Sure! You wanna listen to Nine Inch Nails?” And he’d be like, “Naw, I’m good.”

Okay, so the cultural exchange could be a bit one-sided at times. But Batman bonded us all.

Admittedly, when I was at home, I still mostly listened to Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots on repeat. And I do not listen to a great deal of Hip Hop these days. Mostly due to lack of guidance. I don’t have a Shawn in my life anymore. (But that Cardi B Money song was crazy good. And I’m not just saying that cuz the video had boobs.)

Shawn was able to get me to a place where even if I didn’t like what I was listening to, I understood why other people enjoyed it. I really learned to appreciate rap and many of Shawn’s suggestions made an appearance on my super rad 90s Winamp playlist.

Sometimes when I was having a bad day, it was nice to have a good day to fall back on.

So when I was very whitely bobbing my head to the beat of that communal Walkman, I didn’t think my friends were stupid. I didn’t think I was stupid. I didn’t FEEL stupid.

But facts are facts. And my feels about facts don’t matter.

You see, Ben Shapiro is known for being a master debater. You can find videos of him CRUSHING LIBRULS WITH LOGIC. Or DESTROYING FEMINISTS with TRU FACTS. Perhaps even DEMOLISHING SOCIALISTS with STATISTICS.

His big Harvard brain is pretty relentless when it comes to DESTROYMOLISHING The Left.

He’s great at taking standard conservative talking points, couching them in academic speak, and peppering them with dubious facts that don’t always hold up to scrutiny after the fact. Some might argue he cherry picks his opponents and the subject matter, creates scenarios where his point of view will be well received, and uses bad faith tactics to give the appearance of the upper hand.

But that would be speculation and this post is all about FACTS.

And Ben’s facts are too powerful to dispute. I doubt anyone is up to the challenge. Not even a transgender woman with epic makeup, glorious costumes, creative lighting schemes, and a degree in philosophy could take him to task.

It’s just... unpossible.

*cough* Contrapoints *cough*

Sorry, had a froggie in my throat.

SO... let’s see Ben defend “rap isn’t music” using his fancy debating skillz. It took him 6 years to come up with this, so I’m betting it’s bulletproof.

OH I SEE.

He plays CLASSICAL music.

CHECKMATE, RAPPERS!

Ben Shapiro DESTROYGASMS Hip Hop with UNDERWHELMING TWEET.

If you’ll allow me to expound his logic, being a classically trained musician makes you more specialer than a regular musician. It makes him an arbiter of what is and is not music. I forgot that classical musicians were automatically given that power.

I know Ben only ever presents facts, so I’d like to take him at his word, but I think I’d like to see this music master perform something. Just to be sure he has the proper classical credentials to make these bold claims.

Here is a music video he produced for The Daily Wire. Clearly a high budget homage to one of the most thrilling television themes in recent history.

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Did anyone else feel like they were watching 3 robots play the blandest arrangement ever conceived? Or was that just me? SUCH ENERGY.

I will say, those special effects were... something.

And Ben really PWNED CNN. I’m sure they felt that slice all the way in their Atlanta headquarters.

Ben, if you’re reading this, that video was totally funny in the way you intended. People are definitely laughing with you and not at you. I didn’t cringe even a little.

But does this prove that Ben is a proper CLASSICAL musician? With all the power and privileges that entails?

Does he have the authority to judge musical worthiness?

Despite his robotic performance, I suppose he did hit all the correct notes and everything.

Is music like facts? Does music care about your feelings?

I think what we need is a comparison. Something we can judge Ben’s performance against in order to gauge his level of classical musicianship.

This is Tina Guo.

She is a Chinese-American immigrant from Shanghai. She moved here at the age of 5. She probably was able to sneak in because there wasn’t a border wall yet. She is taking the jobs of American classical musicians. Probably why Ben isn’t in a top-tier symphony orchestra as we speak.

Tina is a cello prodigy who was trained classically. She attended the USC Thornton School of Music for professional cello studies on a full scholarship where she studied under Nathaniel Rosen and Eleonore Schoenfeld--some of the most influential cellists of the 20th century.

She also made a huge splash on YouTube casually playing Flight of the Bumblebee as a teenager. No biggie. I’m sure Ben can play that too.

Oh, and do you remember that badass Wonder Woman theme written by famous composer Hans Zimmer?

That was her playing the lead.

Now for the comparison.

Watch Librul Immigrant DESTROY the Game of Thrones theme that she arranged ALL BY HERSELF without the help of a BIG STRONG MAN.

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I don’t know.

I think that was a smidge better than Ben’s version.

What do you folks think?

So here is the dilemma.

We have two CLASSICAL musicians who are at nearly identical skill levels...

HOWEVER... after some investigation...

It’s possible Tina Guo thinks rap... might be music.

*GASP*

THE EVIDENCE

One of her favorite ways to practice improvisation is to jam along with Hip Hop tracks she finds on YouTube.

Now, conservatives like Ben LOVE dictionary definitions. It’s their go-to debate tactic when trying to legitimize the idea of racism toward white folks. So let’s use the dictionary really quick.

When I looked up what this “jamming” word meant, it sent me to “jam session.” I was shocked by what I found.

Musicians? MUSIC? But those backing tracks she practiced to were used for rap non-music. BEN I AM CONFUSED.

I think I need to dig deeper.

After scouring the internet for almost 2 minutes I was able to find something even more shocking.

Here is LIBRUL CLASSICAL SNOWFLAKE IMMIGRANT FEMINIST MUSICIAN sharing the stage with a CUCK NON-MUSIC RAP ARTIST.

That kinda looks like Tina Guo... and LUPE FIASCO.

*DOUBLE GASP*

And I’ve double checked this... it seems this Lupe fellow is definitely a rapper.

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?

I mean, she has her cello. And he has a microphone. But it’s a FACT that rap isn’t music. So I guess they are doing some experimental anti-music performance together.

ANOTHER SHOCKING IMAGE HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION AFTER ANOTHER 12 SECONDS OF GOOGLING.

What the heck, Tina?

Why are you, A CLASSICAL MUSICIAN, on a stage with Common? Another rapper!

I’m a little worried that Tina might be stupid.

Ben’s FACT clearly states if you think rap is music, then you are stupid.

And not only is Tina playing music near a rapper... I’m pretty sure she is playing music WITH a rapper.

That’s like... double stupid.

I really don’t know what to feel about these facts I’ve uncovered.

These FACTS kinda FEEL like bullshit.

At least I can take comfort in the absolute fact that Ben Shapiro is a solid 5 feet 9 inches tall. It gives me comfort knowing he can ride any roller coaster he wants.

Sick burn, Ben. Though you’re kind of implying that when Milo sees you he is giving you blowjobs. I’m sure you’re fine with that implication. It’s not like you’re homophobic or anything, right?

The important thing is that everyone knows how you’re a big boy. Two inches taller than Napoleon!

I mean, it would be silly to lie about such a thing so easily disproved, right? And there is nothing to be ashamed of if you are a shorter individual. My mom is short I think she’s the best!

So I’m confident you are 5′9″ as you have stated.

I CAN’T FEEL ANY MORE FACTS, BEN.

MY SOUL CAN’T TAKE IT.

You know what... screw it.

I’m going to make it serious.

Not liking rap isn’t racist.

Telling people they are stupid for liking rap is super racist.

And being too stubborn to apologize for a 6-year-old tweet compounds that racism.

Liking jazz is just the musical version of “I have a black friend.”

Not understanding that rap is a cultural staple vital to the black community and then comparing it to frickin’ Titanic makes it profoundly racist.

And... *takes a deep breath* continually defending a shitty 6-year-old tweet as recent as last July, even though you could probably just apologize, blame it on youthful ignorance, delete it, and never have to deal with it again, just because you can’t ever admit you ever said anything wrong...

Well, that just makes you look...

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