Come on Mom it's Only a Blog Post

I have (to my count three times) tossed out rips on The Nobodys on this blog, and I believe I owe an explanation for doing so. I can basically sum up my hatred of The Nobodys and similar artists in a single sentence:

I hate PC-baiting.

There are countless musical artists out there who work tirelessly to hone their craft, exploring metaphor and poetry in their lyrics, sound and composition to perfect their music, and learning and creating new recording techniques to perfect their creations. I commend these artists, good or bad, because they achieve their fame through tireless effort. They work. Then there are the PC-baiters in an entirely different boat. These are the kids who never decided that nurturing and developing creativity was worth their time, and just wanted instant fame. They found out that "ironically" playing on the stereotypes and stigmas that hold back oppressed people got a few gasps and knee-jerk angry responses to their great frat-wad crusade against progressing society eventually led to a controversy, ending in people forking over cash just to get in on the riff-raff.

Then there are the general white-trash deviants (never being above a twelve-year-old maturity level) who end up genuinely liking the bigoted lyrics, heralding it as a crusade against "PC fascists." Listen, I'm pretty much annoyed by a lot of modern political correctness. I say "secretary" instead of "administrative assistant", leave a "y" out of "women", and prefer the term "disabled" over "differently abled." However, is it really necessary to use racial slurs, assign stereotypes, and objectify women just for laughs? Could The Nobodys have at least tried to craft an opus for the progress of society in the same time it took them to write "Just Another Cunt"? Would it hurt to push the treadmill forward instead of dragging our knuckles in the ground?

The Nobodys and their fans will tell you that objectification of women is "just a joke" and will insist you "lighten up." But every time some idiot laughs at the constant barrage of misogynist slurs and insults, that's one more person starting on the road to holding back the progress of an oppressed group of people. They'll start laughing at terms like "bitch" and "cunt", then they'll start making their friends laugh at the terms. Then what's to stop him from ruining female self-esteem by using the terms to refer to specific women? Jokes can harm, no matter what the intention. I'm not telling people what to think or say, but just to think about such things before spouting it out. The fact that this type of music gets popular over genuinely inspired and artistic music is just something that bothers me.

Still, bonus points to Drag the River, their music is fucking sweet.