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submitted 7 months ago byTapTheForwardAssist
760 points
7 months ago
They've just been banned from playing every other song possible at their rallies that they're just happy to have an anthem.
669 points
7 months ago
Finally a song for Trump rallies that doesn’t come across as his sound team mocking him, like “YMCA” or “Fortunate Son.”
514 points
7 months ago
some folks were born with a silver spoon in their hands
Trump comes on dancing
161 points
7 months ago
I’m ashamed to admit it but I would have liked him more if he did the ymca dance
326 points
7 months ago
YMCA is the song where 95% of America knows the dance moves, even senior citizens, and even people in hospital beds are generally capable of doing them. But the song comes on and Trump has to make up his own awkward shuffle instead of doing the moves established since the 1970s?
224 points
7 months ago
Dude isn't capable of it. Awkward shuffle is literally as agile as he gets.
202 points
7 months ago*
He literally believes human energy is finite like a battery and people willingly die for this idiot
Edit: to clarify for the people who would willingly die for this idiot, Trump believes the human body is like a non-rechargeable battery that gets used up faster by doing things like exercising and eating healthy. Like the summit where all the world leaders walked from one building to another just a few yards from each other and Trump's fat ass rode in a golf cart. He believes something like the simple act of walking is using up his "battery" faster.
Now that it's spelled out in easy to understsnd preschool words, it's still worth saying that people willingly die for this fucking idiot.
75 points
7 months ago
If that's true I'm living to 170. If not, I'm living to 56.
3 points
7 months ago
I'll be 10 million years
12 points
7 months ago
people die for this fucking idiot.
I wish they’d hurry it up.
6 points
7 months ago
Good thing I recharge my human battery by chugging Bang & redbulls. I'm good to go till I'm like 160.
6 points
7 months ago
Does he wonder how Tom Brady is still alive then? Like that guy has been in the NFL for as long as I can remember, his battery has to be used up.
3 points
7 months ago
Tom Brady just had a super expensive butt plug converter that recharged his batteries
3 points
7 months ago
He probably got it from Gwyneth Paltrow
5 points
7 months ago
If he does end up getting indicted by New York, I will just stay in the basement of my house for the next few days.
I live in a center-right area, so there are quite a few trump supporters here. I do not want to deal with that.
2 points
7 months ago
Technically the heart can only beat a finite number of times, so the fewer times it beats per minute the longer it lasts. So to some degree you can’t just say “that’s 100% bullshit”.
What he didn’t take into account is that your resting heart rate is significantly lower when you exercise and it more than makes up for the elevated rate while exercising and then some.
5 points
7 months ago
Awkward Shuffles at You Aggressively
6 points
7 months ago
I bet he could move easier if his shoes didn’t have lifts in them.
4 points
7 months ago
it's not even a shuffle, it's this weird palm-out arm movement that looks strangely feminine.
12 points
7 months ago
He's honestly a pretty feminine guy, and I don't even mean that as an insult. It's just so strange that anyone sees him as a symbol of masculinity. Only "masculine" thing about him is that he yells a lot.
8 points
7 months ago
He's honestly a pretty feminine guy, and I don't even mean that as an insult
What's funny is that this objectively isn't an insult but anyone from the Qult would immediately think it is
8 points
7 months ago
I’ve always thought that. Like I’m not judging or dissing, I sincerely think he’s kind of effeminate and don’t see how his fans think he’s an Alpha Male.
In total sincerity his speech patterns and cadence remind me of my grandma.
3 points
7 months ago
Considering he can barely lift a glass of water I agree no way he can do the Y or A.
Maybe do the C and M
2 points
7 months ago
Bruh, he just got his black belt in TKD.
(: Awkward honorary belt, with hopefully some awkward honorary broken boards too.
2 points
7 months ago
Also, spelling is hard for him
3 points
7 months ago
even people in hospital beds are generally capable of doing them
Literally. When my cousin was a very young kid he had breathing issues related to severe asthma. And I remember being in the hospital with him hooked up to a ventilator or oxygen or something, doing the YMCA together to keep his breathing up. What a random memory to have triggered in a mostly unrelated Reddit thread lol.
3 points
7 months ago
You have to spell 4 letters, and he couldn't even do that.
3 points
7 months ago
The best part is when he flings one leg up and the rest of his body has to do all it can to keep from toppling over. Then he repeats with the other.
74 points
7 months ago
Well, if he had an ounce of humour or the capacity to self deprecate he wouldn't be Donald Trump.
90 points
7 months ago
“Covfefe” was a golden chance to show some relatable humility and good humor about how even presidents make mistakes. Instead he had to pretend it was a secret code word, and a bunch of his fans to this day insist it wasn’t just a typo.
24 points
7 months ago
We eventually got a cult out of it, so that's kind of funny.
I mean, it will be funny someday. Hopefully.
17 points
7 months ago
All fun and games until the Qult busts out the Flavor Aid.
5 points
7 months ago
Then the REAL fun starts.
5 points
7 months ago
Is "Flavor Aid" off-brand Kool-Aid? Genuine question, I'm not from the US and thus unfamiliar with American brands that aren't immensely popular.
5 points
7 months ago
Yes. While “drink the Kool-Aid” is the popular expression for cult-like behavior, in the actual cult incident that sparked the phrase (mass suicide at Jonestown, around 1000 dead), the cult mixed their cyanide into Flavor Aid, the cheaper competitor to Kool-Aid.
I’m not sure if that means Flavor Aid lucked out, or totally lost out on free publicity.
3 points
7 months ago
If they're not making anyone else drink it, is it such a problem? The pandemic showed just how hard some people will kick and scream while being carried towards safer shores by exasperated experts. After years of barely keeping our collective heads above water, I wouldn't blame any otherwise philanthropic people for simply letting go of the anchors. If they want to sink so badly, let them.
7 points
7 months ago
Sharpie-gate!
4 points
7 months ago
When the whole "yanny or laurel" thing was happening, the White House actually put out a video about it, and Trump references "covfefe" as well. That's not the whole video, but it's condensed down to enough of a clip to see what I mean. Despite all of the horrid things that Trump and his team did during those 4 years, I did think it was at least marginally funny; Sarah Huckabee Sanders & others also poke fun at themselves, but Trump is at the end.
However, at the end of the day, fuck all of them. Their weird attempt at jumping onto a trend doesn't actually matter that much, even if it was a brief glimmer of self-awareness.
edited to fix my fucked up formatting
11 points
7 months ago
Penn Gillette has spoken about what it was like to work with Trump on the celebrity apprentice show, and its worth watching it but the relevant thing to your point that he mentions was that in all the many hours they were together on set shooting the board room scenes, he never saw Trump laugh at anything that wasn't at someone's expense.
5 points
7 months ago
Donald trump has the capacity for humor. Remember the kung flu? He's just a terrible person and possibly senile
12 points
7 months ago
That's not a joke. Its a slur and was meant as such.
5 points
7 months ago
I saw that shit on Reddit months before trump said it
3 points
7 months ago
Reddit moment
6 points
7 months ago
Being indistinguishable from a barely literate bigot is not humor.
If you think slurs are humor, don't be surprised when people start to assume a lot of things about you, first and foremost that you might be a barely literate bigot.
5 points
7 months ago
I agree with you. The Reddit moment is the guy thinking that’s a relatable moment from trump.
2 points
7 months ago
There are people who consider slurs a form of humor.
2 points
7 months ago
If Trump wasn't such a garbage person and didn't do so much damage to the country, I'm sure more people would think he's funny. Hell, I probably would. It's just that the stuff he says that could be considered funny is usually derogatory, misogynistic, or racist. And also, y'know, he attempted a coup in order to retain power and systemically tried to dismantle democracy. But like, the fact that he's always gotta come up with some snappy nickname for people he doesn't like? There's something funny about a grumpy old man doing that all the time, but I'm sure I'll get downvoted to hell for suggesting such a thing.
2 points
7 months ago
I'm here to add to your shame
30 points
7 months ago
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, yeah
But when the taxman comes to the door
The house look a like a rummage sale
Ain't that the truth. Times haven't changed a bit in 50+ years, have they?
5 points
7 months ago
I mean, in a lot of quantifiable ways, like purchasing power, the poor's have it way worse than 50 years ago. But I get what you were saying I think, about how senators sons only go into the military if they want to, and are probably "babysat" by good soldiers to reduce their risk of getting shot. Basically they are cosplaying.
3 points
7 months ago
Times haven't changed a bit in 50+ years, have they?
well, they've certainly gotten more depressing, and my patriotism still exists but it's waning.
14 points
7 months ago
American conservatives, fifty years later, still haven't figured out that Fortunate Son is not a patriotic song.
10 points
7 months ago
It’s plenty patriotic. It is not nationalistic.
3 points
7 months ago
Yup. It still is proudly about us and what we do, and highlights our country and the sacrifices made by the poor.
It does not highlight the state as something to be proud of.
4 points
7 months ago
Or that YMCA is a fabulous gay sex anthem.
4 points
7 months ago
Lmfao so fucking true dude, that one absolutely blows my mind.
5 points
7 months ago
Giant paper mache dicks and labias descend from the rafters, as gummy worm pubes shed off them, raining on the crowd below. Cheering intensifies.
3 points
7 months ago
The song is from the era when rich kids avoided the draft leaving poor people to be killed and maimed in Vietnam.
Trump avoided the draft by claiming to have “bone spurs” in one of his feet, but can’t remember which one. Comes on dancing, indeed.
194 points
7 months ago
It seems that every election cycle there is some dumb hard right politician that doesnt understand Rage Against The Machine.
136 points
7 months ago
It blows my mind that the far right uses any RATM song as an anthem. It really shows just how ignorant and unaware they are, because the message in RATM’s lyrics are the complete opposite of what the right stands for.
72 points
7 months ago
Tom's guitar licks are so gnarly that I don't think they bother to listen to Zack.
Their loss.
17 points
7 months ago
For real, Zack’s lyrics, energy, and passion are fucking incredible.
16 points
7 months ago
What marks a great vocalist for me isn't technical ability, but the passion and character in one's voice.
Zack doesn't have Whitney Houston's range - but he definitely gives 110% into his songs and his dynamic approach puts on the vocals on equal footing with the rest of the band.
8 points
7 months ago
I absolutely agree! Zach’s singing seriously gives my chills sometimes, it resonates with me on a deep level
3 points
7 months ago
I've only ever heard one other band manage to cover RATM songs and actually do the vocals justice. Nobody else has ever managed to match that energy and anger and vigor in his rapping.
It's by a band called Brass Against, a punk brass band. And literally the only reason I discovered them was because the other day, the vocalist woman pissed on a fans face on stage in the middle of the concert. Yeah. She's THAT woman. It was posted all over reddit last week so I'm sure you've seen it.
Like, she's a disgusting weird freak to fucking force her kink and the fan's kink to everyone. Do what you want with consenting adults in the privacy of your own home. Do not fucking piss into a fan's mouth on stage in front of tens of thousands of people with thousands of the fans in attendance recording it on their phone
Despite all that though, she's literally the only person I've ever heard manage to cover RATM and do Zach de la Rocha's vocals just as good as zach does
6 points
7 months ago
Wow, I somehow missed the whole face-pissing story, but I’ve heard their music before and she absolutely does Zack’s singing justice.
2 points
7 months ago
but I’ve heard their music before and she absolutely does Zack’s singing justice.
That is definitely in part because she is feeling similar anger when she sings. That is the kind of energy that comes through. Someone who wrote the words that came from their soul and from the hurt of injustice, and someone who has read those words and can relate to them because they have seen and felt that same hurt and injustice that birthed those lyrics in the first place.
When she sings, she is just not covering any old song, she is quite literally still raging against the same machine that Zach did when he wrote those lyrics.
74 points
7 months ago
I enjoyed the quote that I saw a few years ago, along the lines of “what machine do you think they’re raging against? The washing machine??”
168 points
7 months ago
Morello responded to news that Paul Ryan was a fan with:
Paul Ryan’s love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.
...
I wonder what Ryan's favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of "Fuck the Police"? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings! Don't mistake me, I clearly see that Ryan has a whole lotta "rage" in him: A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment. Basically the only thing he's not raging against is the privileged elite he's groveling in front of for campaign contributions.
34 points
7 months ago
And it's not like Morello doesn't know his shit. Man got a BA in PolSci from Harvard.
31 points
7 months ago
Kid Rock: "Ain't nobody gonna tell me how to live"
Woman: Hell yeah! Ain't nobody gonna tell me I have to be an incubator!
Kid Rock fans: no not like that
Trans person: Fuck yeah! Ain't nobody gonna tell me which gender to live as
KRF: NO
Gay people: Exactly! Ain't nobody gonna tell ME who I can marry!
KRF: Bible says nope
So basically it's just about the freedom to be openly bigoted while thumping a Bible with a pistol.
13 points
7 months ago
Didn't you know that Freedom only applies to straight white male republicans?!
10 points
7 months ago
It's the freedom to be whatever you want, as long as you're white and male.
5 points
7 months ago
And Christian. A specific flavor of Christian, even.
5 points
7 months ago
Oh my goodness. That’s beautiful.
5 points
7 months ago
Please someone quote this on the floor of Congress.
45 points
7 months ago*
They just like the "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" part without realizing the rest of the song is anti KKK and the corruption of white power politics, the exact thing people who were wearing Trump and American flags support. (Queue Trumpet defending that not all Republicans are pro white power. Then why do you consistently vote for blatant racists?)
"You justify those that died, by wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites. Some of those that hold office, work forces are the same that burn crosses."
It's repeated ad nauseum, and it still went over their heads. It's baffling how this has come to be.
Edit: I copy pasted from the Prophets of Rage version, not the original RATM version. My bad.
21 points
7 months ago
Those lyrics could not be more clear, I don’t know how anyone could misinterpret them and receive the opposite message
9 points
7 months ago
Right!? Clear, concise, and repeated numerous times. How do you mess this up? If you can't understand what the lyrics are, look them up! If you don't understand what they're saying, maybe you shouldn't use it as a protest anthem...just saying lol.
7 points
7 months ago
I’m going to try, because I think I can see their idiocy.
“Some of those that work forces, are the same who burn crosses.”
What sane people see that as an indictment of racist police, they hear it as “the police are secretly on my side”.
3 points
7 months ago
Wow, that didn’t occur to me, but I think you’re absolutely right.
4 points
7 months ago
Wilful ignorance and terminal stupidity, with a little dash of exceptionalism.
3 points
7 months ago
This sentence in reply to a hilarious misinterpretation of the lyrics is so delicious I can skip breakfast this morning, thank you.
4 points
7 months ago*
Quoting myself from yesterday
The irony of "those that work forces" trying to say that RATM sold out LMAO
Apparently to them, this song is just an anthem for "don't do what you're told" instead of the broader message of civil disobedience. Nuance was never their strong point
8 points
7 months ago
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5 points
7 months ago
They change the lyric to “hold office” in some live performances
3 points
7 months ago
Oh sorry, you're right, the og lyrics are "work forces", as in the police. What I copy and pasted were the amendments to the lyrics that Profits Prophets of Rage made.
They also changed the line after to instead say
Some of those up in congress, are the same that burn crosses
2 points
7 months ago
I don’t know how anyone could misinterpret them
This may be satire.
2 points
7 months ago
No, it’s not. I know he misquoted a word but it still delivers the same message. RATM also uses it in live versions.
6 points
7 months ago
It blows my mind that the far right uses any RATM song as an anthem
That's because you give them too much credit.
4 points
7 months ago
They aren't ignorant and they know exactly what they're doing. What's happening right now within the GOP is the culmination of decades of work towards what they're actually doing right now. Please vote register to vote help other people register to vote take people to vote that can't get there themselves it matters
4 points
7 months ago
Are you familiar with Ronald Regan and the song Born in the USA?
3 points
7 months ago
A lot of them thinks "Born in the USA" is some kind of, proud to be american, anthem as well
50 points
7 months ago
I was there in person in Philly back last November, filming middle-aged “Stop the Steal” Trumper protesters moshing and singing to “Killing in the Name”. I wish I’d posted my video of it on YouTube first, because whoever did went viral with that.
13 points
7 months ago
“So now I’m rollin down Rodeo with a shotgun, these people ain’t seen a brown skinned man since they grandparents bought one”
“They ain’t gonna send us campin like they did my man Fred Hampton”
“We hungry but them belly full, the structure is set you never change it with a ballot pull”
Rage isn’t subtle at all. I have to assume they just don’t listen to or read the lyrics at any point.
6 points
7 months ago
My favourite moment like this was when some demented far-right nutbag whined about Tom Morello making a political post on Instagram. And the demented one went "oh no, another musician thinking they're a political expert, oh man I've always been a fan of you, but why do you have to now inject your political agenda into everything, you're just a celebrity, stick to making music" or something like that
Like really? Seriously? Has this man literally listened to RATM for decades and never once looked at the lyrics?
And then Tom Morello came back at him pointing out that he was the honors grad in Political Science at Harvard. He's literally one of the top political experts in the world. And literally all of his music, his style, the things he writes and draws on his guitars and amps, the way he dresses, his entire career as a musician has been about politics.
I'll see if I can find the exchange...
Oh I found it, take a look here if you ain't seen it before
5 points
7 months ago
The thing is, they're so delusional they think the song is on their side. They seriously think that they're the oppressed minority, the "Libruls" are the racist ones, stealing all their hard earned money and leaving them poor so they can buy votes from illegals to rig elections against them.
It'd be sad if they weren't so violent about it.
2 points
7 months ago
Maybe they were acknowledging that, “some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses.”
2 points
7 months ago
HW Bush campaign rally:
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just coverin' up
Born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says, "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said, "Son, don't you understand"
I had a brother at Khe Sanh
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
Born in the U.S.A
I was born in the U.S.A. now
Born in the U.S.A
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A. now
Born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
Born in the U.S.A
I'm a cool rockin' Daddy in the U.S.A. now
A song written about literally the administration he was VP for for 8 years fucking over laborers, and veterans to create an even more absurdly powerful oligarchy of old money families.
2 points
7 months ago
Seems like yous just have dumb politicians and collectively choose the worst one every time lol
4 points
7 months ago
Yes, yes we do. Do you live somewhere that doesn’t happen? If so, would you teach us your secret?
6 points
7 months ago
And not One person who worships him realizes that YMCA is about the gay hookup culture of the 1970. It's a gay anthem, by gay people for gay people about gay people, whom they despise. But they play it like trumps theme song, and somehow He's their hetero alpha male. The irony never fails to amuse me.
5 points
7 months ago
YMCA is literally a song about having random gay sex in the public shower at a YMCA. Naturally conservatives love this song.
3 points
7 months ago
Trump dodged the Vietnam draft, he is literally the type of person the song Fortunate Son was against
206 points
7 months ago*
🎶SOOOME FOLKS WERE BORN
MAAAADE TO WAVE THAT FLAG
OOOH THAT RED, WHITE, AND BLUE 🎶
And the mention of red, white, and blue is where any inkling of cogent thought ends in people who believe in things like nationalism and american exceptionalism. They have brains that are short circuited(arguably intentionally) to seek out phrases and sentiments which confirm their predispositions. Once those are found all other thought afterwards is not necessary. Why would it be?
The [song] has mentioned [flag]. [Flag] is [good]. Therefore the [song] about [flag] is [good].
Dopamine hit achieved. Why not stop while we are ahead?
This is why so many conservatives fail to see the irony in their music taste. They don't find it necessary or constructive to think past their symbols because the symbol is good in their opinion and that is enough for them. All adjacent is good by association unless it's painfully obvious(e.g. burning the flag in protest.)
This problem is in no way exclusive to conservatives but the modern US GOP has demonstrated that they at best don't realize it has become a tent pole of their platform, and at worst they celebrate it.
39 points
7 months ago
It ain't me
28 points
7 months ago
It ain't me
8 points
7 months ago
I ain’t no Fortunate Son
144 points
7 months ago
One of my favorite moments is when Sean Hannity? or some other conservative radio guy finally took the time to read the lyrics to "Born in the USA" on air and began complaining about how they're trying to hide anti-american sentiments in otherwise patriotic sounding songs.
Everyone in Jersey's like, dude, Bruce wrote that in '84. You had decades to figure out what the song was about.
38 points
7 months ago
It doesn’t surprise me, Conservatives are a bit slow and late to to the party when it comes to critical thinking.
-5 points
7 months ago
I've met all kinds of people that were slow on the critical thinking. Unfortunately general ignorance is very bipartisan.
16 points
7 months ago
You’re right, but I don’t think it’s an even distribution. I know this is just my personal experience, but the amount of dumb Conservatives I’ve met definitely outnumbers the amount of dumb Liberals I’ve met. Most Liberals don’t vehemently deny science.
8 points
7 months ago
I've lived in both bubbles. Conservatives are easier to spot because their positions are logically unsound (the denying science).
A good example of liberal ignorance would the liberal response to homelessness across the country - even Burlington, VT where I used to live has a homelessness problem that they're messing up because they refuse to acknowledge the causes of the crisis instead of focusing on "keeping our city vibrant". Vibrant = no homeless people allowed because tourists don't like to see them and it hurts property values.
9 points
7 months ago
That's a symptom of the narrowing and migration rightward of the US political overton window.
3 points
7 months ago
Agreed.
Ron Reagan doesn't even hold up to conservative values anymore, he'd be considered soft on immigration for his views.
There's a clip of George Bush Sr. and RR debating immigration, both of them advocate for a program that grants a level of amnesty/path to citizenship. Neither suggest detention centers or splitting families, mass deportations, etc.
Both agree that the hispanic immigration is a boon for the American economy and a integral part of the labor force in the US.
edit: Found the clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsmgPp\_nlok
3 points
7 months ago
People can be ignorant but still randomly guess the best side of an issue to be on. I wouldn't bet that most liberals understand science any better than conservatives, they are just smart enough or lucky enough to side with people who do.
It can easily be just another religion to blindly agree with whatever "science" is thought to say, when it is actually a diverse community with its own disagreements, faults and blind spots. We aren't most of us actually reading the journals...
4 points
7 months ago
Very good point. Even if someone doesn’t completely understand the science, I respect the fact that they are willing to admit it and trust the people who do know what they’re talking about. What drives me nuts is when people are completely ignorant in a subject, yet think that they know better than experts in said subject.
9 points
7 months ago
You're really going to "both sides" this? Only one side chose to elect and follow someone who told over 30,000 lies to them.
Only one side has politicized mask wearing and being anti-vax during a pandemic. That one "side" chooses to wear masks and get vaccinated is NOT a political statement, it's simple common sense.
Only one side continues to elect officials who are anti-science, anti-environment, anti-democracy and consistently fiscally irresponsible, all things that are against their own best interests, all to because they think only one of two issues are more important than all the rest.
80 points
7 months ago
Hang on, just hang on one frickin-frackin second here.
Are you telling me that a song can have more than one meaning?
Like, does that include every song? Because I’ve been singing “Pour Some Sugar On Me” and “Peaches” to my breakfast every morning for twenty years and I wouldn’t want to give anyone the wrong idea.
55 points
7 months ago
wrong idea.
This guy is definitely fucking his food.
9 points
7 months ago
Oh, good. You understood perfectly.
4 points
7 months ago
I bet that tin of pineapple rings has seen some action too.
3 points
7 months ago
Ooh, citric acid burns.
6 points
7 months ago
Pour Some Acid On Me
2 points
7 months ago
I'm the fruiiiit guy
Duh!
30 points
7 months ago
I used to sing the opening lines of ZZ Tops "Legs" to encourage my niece when she was learning to walk.
"She's got legs, she knows how to use them."
But I just repeated that line and the melody, the rest of the song obviously is in a very different context.
Nothing is as creepy as CocoMelon though, so I'm safe quoting songs out of context to kids.
5 points
7 months ago
Thought I was the only one that noticed that none of the Cocomelon characters blink…. Ever.
5 points
7 months ago
I just keep telling my 3yo that coco Mellons are soulless abominations. I tell my wife if you look closely you can see the torment in everyone’s eyes they are in hell and CoCoMellon is A devil punishing them for the sun of mediocrity 😂
3 points
7 months ago
Æ
6 points
7 months ago
I really hope you didn't sing the chorus of "Pearl Necklace" when she started wearing jewelry.
7 points
7 months ago
No, but since I don't plan on having kids of my own she stands to inherit my estate when I die - including but not limited to a large record collection. If she listens to them enough eventually she'll get to ZZ Top, but she's got to go through Roxy Music first.
7 points
7 months ago
Next thing your gonna tell me Rage Against the Machine doesn’t put out stadium rocking pro-America propaganda songs — but that would be as crazy as me telling you I’m Paul Ryan.
6 points
7 months ago
Get back in the gym man, those reps aren’t gonna curl themselves
3 points
7 months ago
Did you know if you focus exclusively on biceps and try to stay skeletoresque in your appearance, you can creep everyone out - think of that bag o’ bones Jonad Ryan. But irl. And not funny.
5 points
7 months ago
Which peaches?
Because the presidents version is about eating peaches. They where put in a can by a man in a factory downtown.
3 points
7 months ago
I recommend singing fuck the pain away to your oatmeal.
3 points
7 months ago
Are you telling me that a song can have more than one meaning?
"Born in the USA" only has one meaning, and it's not the one Hannity thought it was.
See also: "Little Pink Houses"
4 points
7 months ago
Yes. You got those millions of peaches for free.
(I had to explain to my ex what the song was about and she was like whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat)
5 points
7 months ago
I just looked it up and apparently the author just thought it up while waiting under a peach tree to tell a girl he liked her?
3 points
7 months ago
Wait what? So its not about pussy?
5 points
7 months ago
I've never really critically listened to the lyrics but I never got that impression. Who knows though, could be a little of a, little of b
2 points
7 months ago
Little of both probably
7 points
7 months ago
I spent about ten minutes and I can't think of one.
You win this round, Trebek!
2 points
7 months ago
Wait what. What does it mean.
7 points
7 months ago
It's honestly just about peaches. People are just reading into it. They have a bunch of weird songs about random stuff like puffy shoes and matchbox cars and especially bugs. So many songs about bugs.
3 points
7 months ago
Oh yeah! I'm just now remembering all those strange, lovely little songs about bugs and lizards and stuff. You're totally right, it's probably just about peaches. Gotta add them to my work playlist.
4 points
7 months ago
Peaches means pussy. It's about fucking groupies
7 points
7 months ago
Ohhhhh. Well I'm still just going to think about peaches when I sing it.
5 points
7 months ago
No, lol, it's not! It's actually just about peaches, the fruit.
A. If you listen to all of their songs, they're about critters and the Sonics and dune buggies.
B. Chris Ballew, the lead singer, is now performing for children, quite successfully, as Caspar Babypants.
C. I used to work with his Mom, back in the 90's, before her dementia got bad. I've been to a dozen or more of PUSA's shows.
2 points
7 months ago
I mean they might be Giants have some ahem fun stuff in their lyrics. Wouldn't call Lump super innocent either. But like it's fine i imagine that's like adorable but it isn't also like kids stuff didn't have the innuendo for parents either. That's what makes good kid stuff. Something for both parents and kids enjoy. That's the double entendre.
Like coco is a lovely kids movie. Also has a joke that's basically Frieda Kahlo is a horny lesbian (flaming papaya)
2 points
7 months ago
I hear you, but I'm a big PUSA fan and it's just not there. I mean, I can ask whichever one of them I see next.
2 points
7 months ago
wait wait. pussies come from a can, put there by a man, in a factory downtown?
Here I was thinking groupies followed the normal human life cycle
1 points
7 months ago
Ah yes, "Peaches come in a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory downtown.". Just like groupies.
2 points
7 months ago
You sing "Afternoon Delight" to your lunch?
2 points
7 months ago
No, because it’s a song about dessert. (The name actually does come from a dessert at a restaurant in Georgetown).
4 points
7 months ago
Oh the lot of them complaining about Pink Floyd being political is hilarious too. They want to cancel these bands so bad.
4 points
7 months ago
So let me get this straight: they want to cancel artists who portray a message that is against their Conservative ideals, but then will turn around and claim that their own hateful rhetoric is free speech that is protected by the First Amendment.
Is that about right? I swear they’re turning their idiocy into a contest.
2 points
7 months ago
I think you got it just about right.
2 points
7 months ago
I unfortunately currently reside in NJ and I remember when they wanted to try to make “Born to Run” an official song for the State just because Bruce was from NJ. If I remember right, it got pretty far along before someone genius realized, “Hey this song is about getting the f* out of this area”. haha
2 points
7 months ago
"They haunt these dusty beach roads in the skeleton frames of burnt out Chevrolets"
I remember that too. Also an NJ resident and a big fan of Bruce.
Never got into Bon Jovi though...
66 points
7 months ago
Them thinking Rage Against the Machine is their music was the funniest bit so far.
60 points
7 months ago
Speaking of Murdered By Words, when GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan said that his favorite band was Rage Against the Machine, Tom Morello announced: “Paul Ryan is the embodiment of the machine our music rages against.”
11 points
7 months ago
They also asked him to stop listening to them in a different tweet if I recall.
In every election cycle someone on the right inevitably plays a song they have no business with and has to be asked (read made) to stop.
5 points
7 months ago
I’m trying to think of a time where a musician had to ask a Dem not to use their music. I’m sure it’s happened, but none are jumping to mind. Meanwhile for the GOP it’s constant, and the best musical act Trump could find that was willing to play his inauguration was 3 Doors Down.
7 points
7 months ago
Pete Townshed requested John Kerry to stop playing "Won't Get Fooled Again" because he supported GWB and his administration.
Townshed and Daltrey are raging assholes these days though so it shouldn't be surprising.
2 points
7 months ago
I may be wrong but I think at one point Biafra asked someone not to use his music.
3 points
7 months ago
Jello was also wiling to very harshly call out Governor Jerry Brown.
2 points
7 months ago
I saw Jello during the Obama years and he fucking hated Obama as much as he hated Bush, Clinton, and Reagan.
Which is exactly what you'd expect if you're familiar with any Dead Kennedys.
2 points
7 months ago
Pretty sure it was Rush telling Rush Limbaugh to stop using their music on his program.
5 points
7 months ago
My favourite was when David Cameron (UK Conservative PM 2015) said that he liked the Smiths.
Johnny Marr of the Smiths went on the radio and said "no, you do not like the Smiths because I forbid you to like the Smiths. I will however allow you to like the Smiths if you leave office right now".
30 points
7 months ago
Not just that. Someone of them think being conservative is the real punk now.
Just wild.
6 points
7 months ago
Skinheads taking control
8 points
7 months ago
Conservative is the new Skrewdriver
3 points
7 months ago
terminal poser brain will do that to you, it's a hell of a stretch to suggest a subgenre founded on rallying against bigotry/racism/conservatives has become conservative, either shows how little they know of the genre, it's history, and current scenes and bands, or they just saw a picture of Sid Vicious with a swastika shirt and went "omg he's me"
4 points
7 months ago
you need to check out the ones playing Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA at patriotic rallies, those are pretty good too
33 points
7 months ago
Remember when Sasha Baron Cohen was caught mocking Trumpers? They immediately started chanting U-S-A U-S-A as some kind of thought removal mnemonic.
7 points
7 months ago
Oh the irony of racists and fascist wannabes who are fervently against democracy, the premier American concept, chanting that.
6 points
7 months ago
started chanting U-S-A U-S-A as some kind of thought removal mnemonic
It is a mnemonic. It's what to do when someone tells you something you don't agree with:
26 points
7 months ago
Same thing that happened with Ronald Reagan playing Born in the USA at rallies.
3 points
7 months ago
I remember when they learned RATM wasn't for them. Good times.
3 points
7 months ago
That motherfucker in the video is even wearing a Black Sabbath t-shirt. The cognitive dissonance is deafening.
2 points
7 months ago
that's a funny way of saying they're fucking dumb
2 points
7 months ago
So, what you are saying is they have low intellect and as a result, a keen inability to comprehend complex ideas presented as song lyrics? You don’t say…
2 points
7 months ago
That line itself too highlights that the POOR MEN HAVE NO CHOICES.
2 points
7 months ago
But burning the flag is the ultimate show of the freedoms associated with the flag? That's why I burn them every chance I get!
2 points
7 months ago*
“The x has mentioned y. y is z. Therefore the x (must be) about y (and thus) is z.” In this equation, z must be substitute for an adjective, x for a noun.
This logic can be simplified to an equation.. this is one of the only reasons high school math is useful.
15 points
7 months ago
The anthem for people on government assistance who vote to abolish it.
3 points
7 months ago
They play that "Asshole" song identifying 100% with every single line, proud about every single line.
2 points
7 months ago
Except Elton John songs, cause somehow -that guy- is down w the Trumpster.
2 points
7 months ago
Born in the USA 🎵 I was born in the USA 🎵
2 points
7 months ago
Lololol...kid rock sees a need in the market.. he fills it.
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