{"id":131,"date":"2013-09-21T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T09:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danhudson.net\/?p=131"},"modified":"2013-09-21T09:52:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T09:52:06","slug":"in-defence-of-nu-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danhudson.net\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"In Defence of Nu-Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I know they’re trying to wind people up. I know I shouldn’t rise to it. i also know that plenty of publications print complete falsehoods on a regular basis, often followed by a minuscule apology when the damage has already been done.<\/p>\n

But seriously, have you read this article by Lucy Jones of the NME?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/nme-blogs\/10-reasons-why-nu-metal-was-the-worst-genre-of-all-time<\/a><\/p>\n

I understand that she doesn’t get ‘nu-metal’. A lot of people don’t. But there’s just so many poorly argued points in this article it beggars belief. To save boring you all to sleep, I’ve narrowed it down to a succinct Top 5.<\/p>\n

1. Deftones<\/a> have ALWAYS been high on festival line-ups, this is not just a recent thing. To claim a band as diverse as this is just ‘nu-metal’ and to discredit their longevity is lazy journalism.<\/p>\n

2. The assumption that ‘rap + metal = crap’, by default, implies that Rage Against The Machine<\/a> are ‘crap’. And I would seriously question any music critic who thinks that.<\/p>\n

3. The Strokes did not ‘wash anything away’. I remember vividly Slipknot’s ‘Iowa’<\/a> beating The Strokes ‘Is This It’ to Number One in the same week, with 1\/10 of their hype.<\/p>\n

4. It is accepted by everyone, apart from it seems the NME, that the first rap\/rock crossover was Aerosmith\/Run DMC’s ‘Walk This Way’, not Anthrax\/Public Enemy’s ‘Bring The Noise’ a year later.<\/p>\n

5. The article resorts to petty insults about how a band looks to make its point.<\/p>\n

However, the point, that REALLY gets my goat deserves a whole separate article. It’s Lucy’s throwaway comment that Limp Bizkit <\/a>and System Of A Down<\/a> are ‘sexist claptrap’. Yes, there’s an argument that Limp Bizkit are misogynistic and I accept that. But System Of A Down? Really?!?! I do worry in the wake of ‘Blurred Lines<\/a>‘ that people can be accused of sexism without being questioned and it’s just taken as fact. But I cannot think of a single lyric, track, album, video, live performance or interview that SOAD have ever done which even has a touch of sexism to it. It is seriously unfair on the band, their fans, or the genre, for the NME to make such a bold statement without backing it up.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m off to Break Stuff. Keep rollin’ baby, you know what time it is.<\/p>\n

N.B I tweeted Lucy Jones<\/a> last night and asked her to offer an example of System Of A Down’s sexism, at the time of writing I have received no reply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know they’re trying to wind people up. I know I shouldn’t rise to it. i also know that plenty of publications print complete falsehoods on a regular basis, often followed by a minuscule apology when the damage has already been done. But seriously, have you read this article by Lucy Jones of the NME?… <\/p>\n

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