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Bono: "music has gotten very girly". Girly boys outraged!

posted 6 years ago by Satan2016 (23330)
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Interview is good but long, but MSM focus on that one sentence. https://twitter.com/hashtag/bono

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/bono-u2-state-of-the-world-what-he-learned-from-almost-dying-w514442

I think music has gotten very girly. And there are some good things about that, but hip-hop is the only place for young male anger at the moment – and that's not good. When I was 16, I had a lot of anger in me. You need to find a place for it and for guitars, whether it is with a drum machine – I don't care. The moment something becomes preserved, it is fucking over. You might as well put it in formaldehyde. In the end, what is rock & roll? Rage is at the heart of it.

https://www.gq.com/story/bono-music-is-too-girly

Bono is (1) a man, and (2) has dedicated his life to the concept of rock & roll, so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that he’s said some misguided things about gender and music in an interview with his good friend Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone. We expected better from the reigning Woman of the Year!

[–] Betamax66 (588) 4 years ago

he's right, too many silly, squawking girls on the damned radio

[–] Kowalski (57914) 4 years ago

MAJORITY OF THE MALE TALENT IS SQUAWKING TOO...GUITAR LED ROCK IS IN A LULL RIGHT NOW.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Not to mention the "millennial whoop." And I say that as a millennial myself.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 4 years ago

Most new rock or metal doesn’t get airplay these days compared to hip-hop, although young people today tend to listen to a lot of classic rock too, more so than when I was a teen.

In the UK, the mainstream album charts is full of old acts like Queen and Fleetwood Mac, forever in the top 40.

[–] ODB82 (2055) 4 years ago

U2 is girly music.

[–] liscarkat (16515) 4 years ago

He didn't say anything "misguided" except for condoning drum machines. Almost every contemporary pop song I hear has some castrato dude singing falsetto. It's pathetic.

[–] Satan2016 (23330) 4 years ago

"some castrato dude singing falsetto"

Just like the 70s, minus the long hair.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Ok Bono, you butch thing you

https://img2.thejournal.ie/inline/3771995/original/?width=320&version=3771995

Actually he has a point about the lack of current rock acts. I think it might be slightly better here in Australia, we've always had a strong pub-rock influence in the local music scene and that continues today with acts like The Kingswoods, The DMA's, The Rubens, Dan Sultan etc. As for charts / radio though, it's a bit of an autotuned hip-hop wasteland. I listen to the New Music Friday playlist on Spotify every week and out of the hundred or so new songs they include, I probably save around 5-10 for further listening. The amount of rap and hip hop with that distorted male vocal that makes everyone sound the same is just incredible, and incredibly boring.

[–] ultravioletx (10216) 4 years ago

It ebbs and flows. 80s pop rock was very girly, which is why it was embraced so heavily by gay male artists. Its massive support made it extremely corporate. Grunge and alternative was a return to real music, with real attitude, and to distance itself from the corporate machine.

With grunge and alternative rock being dead, it's all corporate now. Like Bono says, you have to go to edgier hip-hop. That too is corporate, just not as much.

[–] Kowalski (57914) 4 years ago

HE SHOULD KNOW...HIS BALL FREE U2 HELPED USHER IN THE NEUTERED ERA OF ROCK.