Nowadays industria is full of black-clad thirteen year olds whose
major consumption of culture is T-Shirts, they express themselves
in the
aisles of toys-r-us, define themselves politically as a small
section in
their local Tower/HMV/Virgin store, support dire prima-donnas
this trend (dubbed by your kind and gentle host as 'commodification
of
sub/counterculture") started the first moment the first throbbing
gristle record was sold to an interested party. it's common to every
sub/countercultural movement and is as inevitable as the passage of
time. the argument could even be made by those who care that such a
commodification is necessary if said cultural movement (often
youth-oriented) wishes to survive beyond its few years of relevance
to
its specific demographic. to rail against it is often the mark of an
immature mind, one who needs intellectual validation through
assertion
of 'superiority'.
or, to put it into quicker words: who cares? your rant is every bit
as tiresome and cliche as the target you rant about. grow up and find
something interesting to challenge you.
In fact I think the Goths are the Ravers of the new century...
thee doktor is reminded of a recent conversation with a friend
wherein
said friend made the ludicrous assertion that the movie _the fast and
the furious_ was "the generation X version of _gone in 60 seconds_".
your assertion, armitage, is every bit as short-sighted and asinine
as
that, and for the exact same reasons besides.
A most industrious post, dok industrial.
If Armitage is right, then being a goth sucks ass. Maybe it's time to
wipe out the fucking make up, put the piercings aside, oh and plant a
bomb in the goth club on your way out.
I'm afraid he's right to some extent. :/ Next, we'll see Britney Spears
assuming the same gothic whore appearance like everybody else.
Anyhow, I can't stand the common judgement nowadays that "good
industrial" means something like cheesy dance music. Most of the new
stuff I hear in the name of ebm/industrial is simply badly produced
trance. What a crap!
I'd rather produce glam rock than do that shit. What's the point in
making dance music?
Of course, that does not mean that there are no new acts that I don't
like. There are lots of brilliant artists.
I don't think industrial is dead. I actually liked the new laibach,
front 242 and ministry albums btw. It's not power noise, but the albums
had content.
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exa/malfunction