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I can't help but think of all the revolutionary thoughts and rhetoric in songs of the 1960's that I grew up with. Plus most of mainstream society then was saying stuff like "cut your hair" "wear clothes like us" "listen to music like us" and they apparently felt truly threatened, like radical youth will destroy society, hell they even shot some kids like at Kent State! I won't even get into Nixon's paranoia but I didn't vote for him. It's the same old shit all over again. Sure, a song said happiness is a warm gun mamma, but I never killed anybody.
I'm 54yo, I still love rock & roll and most good music, plus new styles too, I have two of my radio presets on the two least commercial hiphop stations in the Phila PA area and I like to listen to that stuff a bit each day. I find some of the best examples to be rythmic and poetic in a raw on-the-streets kind of way and like most pop-culture, the rest is trash anyway.
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