it was knowingly camp, especially things like black sabbath. can't say i've spent a lot of time listening to it, but come on, the am-dram and kitsch is all knowingly part of the act. it's like kayfabe in wrestling, or something.
you like musicals, another musical form that inspires a passionate following and is really rather hammy, at the end of the day. it's a day of playing dress-up. it's just as often very camp and queer as it is macho and toxic. look at someone like judas priest, for example.
as for musically uninteresting ... well, it's a very broad church. there's a huge diversity of styles. i don't really care much for the endless paginini-on-electric guitar solo or hair metal stuff. but sabbath and zeppelin and early examples like that were very consciously plugged into rhythm and blues and other interesting musical traditions. it's not entirely without merit or innovation.
sociologically, it was a bunch of working-class lads from the midlands making a ruckus and escaping their class-confined and predetermined path in life to end up in some factory or on the dole. why not?
you like musicals, another musical form that inspires a passionate following and is really rather hammy, at the end of the day. it's a day of playing dress-up. it's just as often very camp and queer as it is macho and toxic. look at someone like judas priest, for example.
as for musically uninteresting ... well, it's a very broad church. there's a huge diversity of styles. i don't really care much for the endless paginini-on-electric guitar solo or hair metal stuff. but sabbath and zeppelin and early examples like that were very consciously plugged into rhythm and blues and other interesting musical traditions. it's not entirely without merit or innovation.
sociologically, it was a bunch of working-class lads from the midlands making a ruckus and escaping their class-confined and predetermined path in life to end up in some factory or on the dole. why not?
Last edited by uziq (2025-07-23 07:23:05)
