How comes heavey metallers/goths with horror imagery are largley peaceful and rap fans often support thug culture?
Ie look at heavey metal clothing and there is a strong association with horror imagry on films...
Often in songs too...
But in clubs you are perfectly safe the worst risk being bounced around a dance floor mosh pit like a wild bouncy castle game.
With them often loving music and creative areas. Many becoming teachers or youth leaders
you get hurt everyone looks out for you.
Yet if you look at cultures surrounding garage, rap, jungle music etc.
There appears to be a 'respect' dominance culture where vicious fights are common over nothing, with respect for gang culture, mugging, guns, calling girls bitches, lack of contraception, pecking orders etc...
Whilst the only time you here of heavey metallers or goths truning violent its after extream long term abuse and bullying till they snap.
Why is that?
2007-02-08 20:38:54 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Also note...
As for biting heads off bats... many meatllers are vege and the famous incident involving ossie appears to have been a drunked mistake thinking it was rubber or something ...
with him thinking.. oh fk its real...
as for playing records backwards...
ever heard of a joke...
some words were heard... among them
I want a peppermint...
its just conincidence or anoth one said join us...
Ie become a slayer fan which we thought was funny , not serious...
No diff to the hidden songs on cds etc.
2007-02-08 21:03:32 · update #1
because different people like different music, us metalers have a very different personality to the rap kids, i mean i love my heavy music, i hang out with goths sometimes, (although all the goths i know are whiny bitvhes, and are way pretentious) but my massive metal mate steve rocks big time, he's loud often untentienally violent to inanimate objects, hes big and scary looking, but a heart of gold, always making dirty comments but always got a hug for me. yaya metal
2007-02-08 20:47:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its all from Satan (hail Satan, lol) according to anyone not into either vein... I did an English writing assignment a few years back on this exact topic. Like how one extreme is the same as the other...opposite ends of the same spectrum.... about how rap is usually simplex rhymes paired with a prerecorded beat about life in the ghetto and how much bling they have, when metal is all about the music, the melodies the noise, the pure raw intensity of anger and pain... and sometimes sex....they lyrics mean something other than "I got my Air force 1s" Who the hell cares about your shoes? I've lost my train of thought cause I'm listening to Metallica as I write... James is a genius... and nothing else matters....
2007-02-09 07:48:59 · answer #2 · answered by Annabella Stephens 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i always used to get really angry about the stereotypical image of metal music fans.... it seemed that whenever i watched a police drama on tv, the bad guy was always someone wearing a biker jacket and long hair..... i guess it's the whole Hells Angels image that triggered this off - that and some ignorant people seem to think that all metal fans are devil worshippers... *sighs*..... the problem is that U are guilty of stereotyping the rap / RnB / hip hop culture too, by seeing a generalisation of this genre of people in the media, and assuming that they are all involved in a violent gang culture..... try to rise above the stereotypes hon, and just judge people on who they are, and not on what the media would like to to think they are....
2007-02-09 04:53:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The horror imagery is fairy tale, fantasy but the lyrics, of rap...why do people always leave the c off? are based in real violence and gloryfies the things that are killing children in South London now.
2007-02-16 15:46:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heavy metal began with the common theme being massive death and destruction that hung over our heads in the nuclear missile era. In a way, it was a means of embracing the likely apocalypse, and the dark, butal side of man itself.
Rap music began with the common theme of the opressiveness of poor urban life, and the self-centeredness often required to survive in a crime-ridden area.
As such, metal embraces the fact that humanity itself is self-destructive, while rap embraces that one must often be destructive of others.
Existentialism versus materialism. Materialism is always the more violent of the two.
Metal often has themes that violence is a sad fact of life, while rap glamorizes violence as a mean to an end.
Additionally, rap music is about the ego of the individual. There are very few rap groups...merely rappers themselves, with a supporting cast. Metal is about groups(bands)...there are few heavy metal individual artists. The media themselves lend to a difference between collaberation and individualism.
Additionally, the violence in heavy metal is rarely about one-on-one violence, whereas the violence in rap is usually about one-on-one violence.
It's also about who listens to what...metal has appeal to mostly-white suburbanites, while rap has appeal to mostly-black city dwellers. The culture of the street versus the culture of the cul-de-sac.
2007-02-09 04:54:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
well, music is the common denominator, look at the lyrics. deep purple said, theres smoke on the water... snoop dog wants to smak his ***** up. robert plant sang of his stairway to heaven, and eminem showed us 8mile.
heavy metal imagery is just that imagery, its designed to shock and awe complacent parents... and its safety in numbers.
its teenagers playing at being grown ups, and doing what their peers are upto, and in teh middle class world of HM you dont need urban squalor or an uzi to make a point.
violence (and its subcultures) will always be the last refrain of a desperate ignorant misguided society.
2007-02-09 04:50:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
What happens when you play a rap track backwards? Does it preach the evil concept of peace and gentility?
2007-02-09 04:59:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The answer to that question is black & white. What race mainly listens to rap & what race composes most of the metalheads?
2007-02-16 21:09:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
source: "Born to be wild"
rock'n'roll !!!
2007-02-16 04:47:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
because most of the people listining to that are black,low class,no daddy having mofo's
2007-02-15 22:26:05 · answer #10 · answered by wade 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋