MiKeZilLA wrote:
the problem is the clear decision by record labels to promote it
:? Ok so as an artist i can make whatever music I like but i shouldn't be allowed to sell it.....
ok i'm being a bit difficult....
Point of the matter is no matter how you regulate it the regulation is the problem. The bigger problem is societal i.e. if we were healthy as a society bands like slipknot might have a slightly harder time of it selling albums (perhaps) All i'm saying is it's a slippery slope when you start silencing artists...
The concept of freedom is an important one, and so in that light, its important parents or whoever give those which create "art which harms" the negative coverage they deserve. If i decide to put devil messages or whatever in my recording and parents complain then they are right. If they say i do and i dont then they are wrong. But then this conversation is not about the hidden messages type stuff, but more the overtly aggressive type music.
99% percent of the time its balance which holds the key.
The last thing i would like is living in a world where only elavator music is played.
The only reason freedom is paramount as a societal concept is the natural tendency for those which care for others, e.g the parents for their kids or good human being to others, to act in such a way as to balance out the situation with opposite rhetoric and action. Thus creating a mid point which generally is better than if either extreme held full control. And the only reason the good side isnt given full power is to avoid the tendency that power generally corrupts, and thus becomes the bad they act against.
This doesnt mean good isnt better, because in everyway it is. Even those which gravitate towards the angry stuff are normally doing it because they want to be part of the anti-establishment, and thus feel a part of something and indirectly loved or appreciated.
The shortest route to be a happy person is to be in exactly that, a happy place. And to act out in a violent subculture is not directly that. Sure, comradery is nice, but its not what people trully want. It's better to go directly to the source.
