Ned Flanders
Banned
..who suddenly became a liberated mind one day and started writing poetry, randomly signing aloud in class, and spouting off nonsensical opinions about every other socio-political issue. The same kid who, when people who actually knew what the fuck they were talking about would chime in and correct him, would call them "conformists" or "puppets" or some shit.
The last 2 Incubus videos literally make me want to laugh out loud. And it's not that I'm a pro-Bush guy or that I don't like rock music, it's just that the fucking lyrics that these guys write are among the more piss-poor I've ever encountered, and their little social stances seem rather hackeneyed.
"If I met you in a scissor-fight, I'd cut off both your wings on principal alone"????
BWAHAHAHAHA!!! WTF are you 12?
The worst part is that they seem to be pulling it off. One of my not-too-swift friends the other day was noting how he liked "Megalomaniac" and how it was "all political and shit". Upon inquiring as to what exactly made it's poltical message so cool, he really didn't have a response. Rage Against the Machine was probably far too cryptic a band for today's listeners to handle.
Incubus manages to make generalized statements and wrap them in a 9th grade poetry-caliber package that is palatable enough to make the "ereybody in the club gettin tipsy" generation feel like political activists when their videos come on. Lights, camera, transaction. Yup.
The last 2 Incubus videos literally make me want to laugh out loud. And it's not that I'm a pro-Bush guy or that I don't like rock music, it's just that the fucking lyrics that these guys write are among the more piss-poor I've ever encountered, and their little social stances seem rather hackeneyed.
"If I met you in a scissor-fight, I'd cut off both your wings on principal alone"????
BWAHAHAHAHA!!! WTF are you 12?
The worst part is that they seem to be pulling it off. One of my not-too-swift friends the other day was noting how he liked "Megalomaniac" and how it was "all political and shit". Upon inquiring as to what exactly made it's poltical message so cool, he really didn't have a response. Rage Against the Machine was probably far too cryptic a band for today's listeners to handle.
Incubus manages to make generalized statements and wrap them in a 9th grade poetry-caliber package that is palatable enough to make the "ereybody in the club gettin tipsy" generation feel like political activists when their videos come on. Lights, camera, transaction. Yup.
