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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen
All discussed a billion times before and VERY popular niche topics in popular culture. Among the most hackneyed and cliched pseudo-intellectual themes that exist. The only reasons Godsmack and other such bands use these themes are that:
1: As artists they lack in imagination and conceptual capacity themselves,
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You have awefully high standards for someone who is defending pop music
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2: They know their audience will latch onto those sorts of themes
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I think you are confusing 'appreciate and acknowledge thier artistic efforts' with 'latch onto those sort of themes'. Godsmack isn't a theme, it's not an image. I've only ever seen one person in my school wearing a godsmack shirt, and he doesn't even really listen to Godsmack it's just a t-shirt he owns.
Angst ridden teens can
relate to Godsmack songs wich is why they like them, but they don't
use Godsmack as some social badge like people do with pop and rap. They genuinely appreciate Godsmack.
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and feel they are not only angst ridden adolescents, but intellectual and sophisticated angst ridden adolescents.
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They usually are more intelligent than thier oblivious, preppy little counterparts, who are more concerned about Laguna Beach than economics and politics.
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Congratulations on being taken in by all these shallow veneers, Oomph. You're a real true livin' breathin' bona fied cog in the system, mate!
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You don't know me.
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Oh, and the emotion's all affected, too. Which makes matters even worse.
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That doesn't even make any sense...