John Hoosier Mellonhead: Traitor to Rock and Roll
Via Cold Fury, we learn that Alice Cooper is disgusted with liberal musicians campaigning for Kerry. Aiming a broadside at Michael Stipe, John Cougar Melloncamp and Bruce Springsteen, the Coop said:
"To me, that's treason. I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics," says the 56-year-old Cooper, who begins a 15-city Canadian tour on Aug. 20 in Thunder Bay, Ont.
"When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick.
"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." [emphasis mine]
Truer words were probably never said. Ted Nugent'll probably shoot 'em all, anyway.
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Too bad it came from Alice
Too bad it came from Alice Cooper, who is largely unknown to anyone under 30.
This message might have really resonated had it come from someone the slack-jawed MTV minions pay attention to. Usher or somebody.
And Nuge will hunt them down first, then shoot them. With a bow.
He continued: "See? I said
He continued: "See? I said Washington Journal! What the hell was that? Look, I loved the Jack Daniels and heroin, and it loved me." He then vanished in a puff of meta-logic.
Hey, most young people may
Hey, most young people may not know who he is, but any student, present or past, worth his salt knows "School's Out For Summer", as blared across any available and hijackable set of speakers on the last day of school each year(unless the school plays it itself - mine did). That said, I love his commentary, and I can't complain about his affiliation(though I have to wonder how he reconciles the two).
What about country music?
What about country music? Musicians from Nashville have ponied up to the GOP for years. Is there no rebel tradition? Is there no outrage?
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But how would "rebel" = "anti-Republican"?
I'm with Alice. The idea that pop stars have any special knowledge, or have anything to teach me about policy, is silly.
Musical acts in politics are either marketing tools for a party or examples of tremendous egos.
Likely both.
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That is not what I said, nor was it what Alice Cooper. The point was that rebels don't belong in the mainstream political game. If we criticize the tarnish put on rock because of Springsteen, should not the country music be affected similarly?
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Yeah, I took Alice's attitude toward rock, that it doesn't belong in politics, and added my own, that rock stars have nothing to teach me. Alice did say they were "morons", after all. Those 2 thoughts seemed to go together at the time.
I think this is the perfect line to sum all of this: "rebels don't belong in the mainstream political game." It goes for REM and Springsteen the same as the folks playing at the RNC this week. Country and rock. Rightpunks and leftpunks.
One problem is the fossil rockers, who cut their teeth in the 60s, desperately need new causes to augment their midlife crises, and overlooking that by becoming part of the political apparatus, they're not rebels anymore.
I'll be a true rebel and post that preceeding run-on sentence. Bu$h Lied! My Grammar Died!!