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29/01/2011

Response to Batman: Fortunate son

(This is going to be a brief blog, I just thought of it after some video).
Fortunate son is a Batman comic book about Batman believing that rock 'n' roll and other forms of music is (and I'm quoting here) "Is about death...and crime...and the rage of the beast". If anyone knows about Atop the 4th wall, they probably know that Linkara already reviewed this comic, I'm just trying to empathise Linkara's view of this comic. Music is NOT evil or anything demonic. True, singers in bands take drugs and go carried away just to get more popular in the charts, and even in 1983, heavy metal bands Metallica and Judas Priest had subliminal pro-suicide messages hiden in there songs (I'm not sure if that's true but I never heard their songs so I wouldn't notice). Plus, singers get really crazy like Lady Gaga, I'm mean have you seen her fashion? But what I don't understand is, why? Batman said that before he saw a punk singer who turns out to have killed his girlfriend (the singer's I mean) but that doesn't mean that other music genres are evil!

The singer Izaak Crowe (yes that's his real name)is mad! He keeps complaining that everything should be free! No it shouldn't, as Linkara said, money makes the world go round and yes I agree and it's OK if some things should be free, but not everything in the friggin' world! And also,he thinks that if someone disagrees with you, it's OK to ruin their property and stuff. Yeah...um what if the person who was disagreeing with you was a Prime Minister or a wrestler? And he starts hallucinating and destroys this music studio that was trying to make a music video. What's wrong with music videos? Music videos are used to empathise the singers songs and express there meaning, what the heck is wrong with that!?

But ignoring all that, this line...this one friggin' line really makes me irate. It shows how bad this comic book is by just one line. "Insanity...reverberates in every chord of this music you love..." :0
You can't be serious...you are suggesting that every note and lyric is entirely (and adding the quote in the beggining of this blog)is insane and evil...YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!!!!!! It isn't! Music is like poetry, to express the singers feelings and theories...and you're suggesting it isn't? No, wait, Batman is fictional, it's not the characters opinion, it's the writer's opinion. Well, Gerald Jones (the writer) IT ISN'T!!!! I mean...here is a list of some of the songs from various artists and tell me is these songs insane and evil.

'I am (I'm me)' and 'We're not gonna take it' from Twisted Sister is telling the younger generation to choose their own destiny and not what the parents chose for them.

Pink's new album 'F**king perfect' is telling us it doesn't matter what you look like, whether you are fat or ugly,or you're a freak, you're perfect the way you are.

'Ain't got no...I got life' from Nina Simone is about that if you don't have anything, you still have life and that's more important.

'Firework' from Katy Perry is expressing people to explode from their lonely shell and show their true colours.

WHERE IN THAT LIST DO YOU THINK EVIL IS IN IT!? SO YOU THINK MUSIC IS EVIL GERALD? GET A LIFE DUDE! IT ISN'T, IT'S ENTERTAINMENT AND AT THE SAME TIME EXPRESSES MORAL AND MEANING!!! YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!!!!! Oh, and what about Christian rock, I mean is Gerald also thinking that Christian rock is being reverberated by insanity and crime?

And if my quick list doesn't empathise my (and Linkara's) perspective, here is another list without my explanation to the songs.

'Heaven is a place on Earth' from Belinda Carisle.
'Enough is enough' from Donna Summer.
'It's my time' from Scorcher.
'Don't stop believing' from Journey.
'Dear Mr President' from P!nk.
'Ay Haiti' from various Spanish artists (You might need google translate).
'Ghetto gospel' from 2pac.
'Hallelujah' from Leonard Cohen.
'My mamma said' from Aqua.
'High school never ends' from Bowling for soup.
'Lose yourself' from Eminem.
'Brick by boring brick' from Paramore.
'I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair' from Sandi Thom.
'Worthy is the lamb' from Hillsongs.

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