Vigilant Walrus
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Johnny Cash going out right after Hurt came out was bizarre. To this day it still rages if the original is better, but that discussion is not really interesting. Cash made it his own, made it about his own life, faults and regrets.
A lot of people in Europe hate American Country music. They see it as Nascar/Wrestling/My-inbred-Trucker-Wedding. It's hard for us to understand because we don't have the same relationship to the western frontier or westerns in general. Not in the same way Americans do. Furthermore Southern-American cultural export has a bad rep all over the world; racism, obesity, not sounding intelligent, guns, republicans. This is a stereotype of course, but I think the progressive sides of America are generally preferred a lot more.
So people know who Johnny Cash is, but they don't know who Dixie Chicks or Jason Aldean are even though those acts are pretty big.
Anyway, the point is that Johnny Cash Hurt- Everyone I saw talking about that song loved it to death, and sort of just overlooked its country roots. "I hate country, but that song is realllllyyy goood" was usually the response.
Foo Fighters @ Many people shit on Foo Fighters because it is supposedly boring, and I agree that it is not as distinct as a lot of the great stuff in sub-Rock cultures that now dominate the popular sphere- post rock, Alternative, Stone, Pyschedellic, ectro, metal, hard, post-punk, post-alternative and so on and so forth, Foo Fighters remains pretty much the only "standard" Rock band that is just Rock and is able to be mainstream.
You could say the same about U2 (who I find legitimately boring and tiresome), Coldplay (see them more as Brit rock). In a weird way Foo Fighters are hanging on to a time when great rock music was at the top of the charts. Foo Fighters is not like blow-your-mind-this-is-so-fucking-amazing-im-gonna-die, but I really appreciate how its just normal rock.
So many rock acts are fusioned in all sorts of directions but Foo Fighters remain consistent.
A lot of people in Europe hate American Country music. They see it as Nascar/Wrestling/My-inbred-Trucker-Wedding. It's hard for us to understand because we don't have the same relationship to the western frontier or westerns in general. Not in the same way Americans do. Furthermore Southern-American cultural export has a bad rep all over the world; racism, obesity, not sounding intelligent, guns, republicans. This is a stereotype of course, but I think the progressive sides of America are generally preferred a lot more.
So people know who Johnny Cash is, but they don't know who Dixie Chicks or Jason Aldean are even though those acts are pretty big.
Anyway, the point is that Johnny Cash Hurt- Everyone I saw talking about that song loved it to death, and sort of just overlooked its country roots. "I hate country, but that song is realllllyyy goood" was usually the response.
Foo Fighters @ Many people shit on Foo Fighters because it is supposedly boring, and I agree that it is not as distinct as a lot of the great stuff in sub-Rock cultures that now dominate the popular sphere- post rock, Alternative, Stone, Pyschedellic, ectro, metal, hard, post-punk, post-alternative and so on and so forth, Foo Fighters remains pretty much the only "standard" Rock band that is just Rock and is able to be mainstream.
You could say the same about U2 (who I find legitimately boring and tiresome), Coldplay (see them more as Brit rock). In a weird way Foo Fighters are hanging on to a time when great rock music was at the top of the charts. Foo Fighters is not like blow-your-mind-this-is-so-fucking-amazing-im-gonna-die, but I really appreciate how its just normal rock.
So many rock acts are fusioned in all sorts of directions but Foo Fighters remain consistent.
