Did white Rage Against the Machine fans actually listen to/understand the lyrics?

[Breh13]

I feel like a lot of fans don’t actually read or comprehend lyrics.

Long as it sounds good they go with it.

 

[Phitz]

Thread is comedy

 

[get these nets]

I've always wondered if they were really paying attention to what they were really saying or if they only cared about the guitar work

Reminds me of all the white Wu-Tang fans who pretend they understand the lyrics but don't realize RZA and them are calling them devils lol

OP, are you serious? You haven't seen the footage of the fans at Woodstock? You didn't read about them eventually adopting the same views as their parents as they got older? Young people rebel against society then they get older and conform to 99% of the views they challenged as kids.



Music industry smartly exploits young people's need to rebel by giving them a way to vent through music. They cash in on kids going through that phase.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

 

[Turbulent]

I think that young people tend to lean more left and go towards the right as they get older on average. So it's not impossible that those same people who liked Rage started to go right but still fukked with the Rage music out of nostalgia for their youth. Also, they reconcile these opposite ideas by viewing MAGA as an anti-establishment movement. They see it as "going against the system".

 

[Ski Mask]

Yeah these the type of fans that don't like lyrics that are in your face, shyt you can't gaslight or juelz away.

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

I think that young people tend to lean more left and go towards the right as they get older on average. So it's not impossible that those same people who liked Rage started to go right but still fukked with the Rage music out of nostalgia for their youth. Also, they reconcile these opposite ideas by viewing MAGA as an anti-establishment movement. They see it as "going against the system".

 

[Neuromancer]

Very few people listen to lyrics and comprehend them. It's too much work for people.

 

[ViShawn]

Some...

 

[Turbulent]

I even see it in non-white people. When you get older, you start dealing with "more serious" jobs, kids, mortgage, divorce and seperation of assets, crime in your neighborhood...

You might not become a full fledged republican, but you might not be as down with feminism, or defund the police.

 

[Black Hans]

Yeah, the left leaning ones did. Those songs are partially what led them into that type of activism. The right leaning ones just thought they were a great rock band and was to the lyrics.

RATM still held as one of the GOAT bands to both sides of white cats, tho. I'm surprised they're not in the HOF yet

 

[karim]

I was going to say, white kids just want to rebel and piss of their parents.

 

[bnew]

another example of musk referencing things and not understanding the real meaning.

 

[The Fade]

another example of musk referencing things and not understanding the real meaning.

They co-opted the Matrix too when they’re actually trying to build it

Peter Thiel got literal blood boys like a vampire. People were obsessed with music industry booty bust theories but this guy is a booty buster billionaire who called his blood boy company “Ambrosia” in everyone’s face and we put his direct lackey in office.

Yarvin wants to use the low caste people as fuel for buses

 

[JadeB]

How Gen X Became the Trumpiest Generation

Really hits on the nail on why Gen X folks love RATM and other 80s and 90s left-wing artists but vote Republican