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Old 06-07-2013, 10:13 PM   #47 (permalink)
Paul Smeenus
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First of all I usually don't discuss this genre as it is just NMT but I recently ran across some of this person's material and I wanna weigh in on it too, Circe covered much of my distaste for this artist but I have a couple notes of my own.

Looking at these videos, briefly as I did, makes me pretty sure this is the same recording artist that released some song about her "ratchet-assed bitches", which I was recently exposed to.

First, my distaste for this style of hip-hop is based on a thoroughly selfish, thug, pimp mentality that I simply find abhorrent. I loathe and detest treating people as if they were so much meat, even when I find someone extremely attractive (in her case moderately attractive until I heard that), I still have to like them as people, that attraction fades with high levels of acceleration if their personalities achieve this level of ugliness. I find this severe unpleasantness here, and I am repulsed by it as I am with the men who portray this attitude.

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Secondly I really don't like her voice. It's just so painfully faux-American. I don't really know what more I can say about it.
I agree, what I hear is a forced dialect that I can only describe as a very unpleasant affectation

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Thirdly I think her music's just plain vulgar. When it's done well I genuinely love sex in music but songs like Pu$$y just invoke feelings of revulsion in me. Dealing with the subject in any kind of music requires a kind of passion and drive to it while her lyrics just come across to me as cold and distant. It makes me think of a pornstar rapping about her day job than someone who's actually enjoying going down on another woman.

I can't improve on this.
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