Category: Music

Murder Music Gets Million Dollar Paycheck

Murder Music Gets Million Dollar Paycheck — Evita Duffy-Alfonso of The Federalist recently interviewed a Chicago policeman about the horrors occurring in his city.

Counter-productive gun control and Soros-DA Kim Foxx were cited as reasons for the catastrophe but the unexpected kicker was music executives.

We quote:

One of the main ways I think we can make Chicago safer is to change the music that our children are listening to and try to find a way to stop a lot of these big music organizations and executives from exploiting our children to promote their own destruction. And I say that in regard to rap music or a specific sector, drill music.

So let’s just say you’re part of a gang, and I’m a part of a gang, and we’re both rapping, but we are in opposition to one another. I rap about your group, you rap about mine, but my group comes and kills someone from your side. And then I rap about it. I mock killing your loved one or your best friend, or a person in your gang. You get back on the same song or different song, and now you rap about retaliating — coming to kill someone that means something to me, and it just goes back and forth.

And a lot of these executives, they come into our low-income communities, and they say, ‘Oh, man, this guy got 5,000 or 10,000 likes on his song, let me give him $1,000,000 to rap about that stuff at a bigger level,’ so people around the country can listen.

People celebrating — and committing — murder are getting million dollar paychecks to take things to higher levels.

Neither a city nor a nation can survive with a culture like that. The solution isn’t to ban this, though. It’s to out-shout it. Start by putting the Bible and prayer back in our public schools. Can it honestly hurt anything?

Where are the leaders speaking out against it? How about the church leaders? We sorta suspect they might be more inclined to celebrate this rather than condemn it.

Evita’s story can be found here.

Murder Music Gets Million Dollar Paycheck
Murder Music Gets Million Dollar Paycheck

Modern Classical Music at DCCC

Modern Classical Music at DCCC

By Bob Small

Modern Classical Music, like alternative political parties and alternative religions  can be seen as a subculture followed by those of us who don’t always trust the dominant traditional cultures.

Most people’s perception of classical music has been both Eurocentric and empire-centric, to say nothing of being male-centric. There should be room for music based on alternative visions of gender, race, and culture, and celebrating peace instead of wars and militarism.

For many, the enjoyment of new modern classical music lies in both the discovery phase and re-listening when possible. Hearing repeated live performances of new works is an extremely rare occurrence, whereas we can hear Bach, Mozart, Puccini, Beethoven and Verdi on an endless loop. Depending on how you get your music, there is usually a very limited choice of other composers presented. Though WRTI, our local classical FM station, tries to be diverse, it is rather limited in its diversity. For example, on March 8, which was International Women’s Day, the all-women-composers playlist included some composers only to be heard on that day, and some of their compositions were only partially played.

The new music performance groups I used to follow were Relache, when I lived in Philly, and Orchestra 2001, when it was at Swarthmore College.

Lately, I have discovered the new music program at Delaware County Community College (DCCC).

On the March 2 program of new music at DCCC, the duo Melomanie, consisting of harpsichord and flute, played works by Larry Nelson, Chuck Holdeman, Mark Hagerty and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier.

The first time I attended one of these programs at DCCC, I was one-third of the audience. Last Thursday night, I was one-tenth of the non-composer section of the audience. I had a challenging and enjoyable evening.

The next concert in the series is 5 p.m., Thursday, March 23,and features the Lang/Rainwater project. General admission is only $10.

Modern Classical Music at DCCC
Modern Classical Music at DCCC

Hi Ren Is True Art

Hi Ren Is True Art — Hi Ren by English musician Ren Gill is not fun but it is anything but stupid and is infinitely better than what passes for popular music today.

It actually is kind of popular as it has 4.1 million views on Youtube as of today, Feb. 2.

We’ll put the song in the pure art category.

Here’s the take by Evita Duffy-Alfonso of The Federalist.

Hi Ren Is True Art

The Martha’s Vineyard Invasion Song

The Martha’s Vineyard Invasion Song

By Chad Prather

Hat tip Bob Small

The Martha's Vineyard Invasion Song By Chad Prather Hat tip Bob Small

Lyrics Good the Bad and the Ugly William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 7-8-22

Lyrics Good the Bad and the Ugly — The lyrics to  the theme of “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” are “Go, go, go Manco”

Manco means one-armed in Spanish. It was what Clint Eastwood’s character was called in the preceding “For a Few Dollars More” because he did everything left-handed except for shooting.

In “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” Clint’s character was called “Blondie”.

Officially, he is referred to as “The Man With No Name.”

Go figure.

Lyrics Good the Bad and the Ugly

 

Lyrics Good the Bad and the Ugly

Sad Little Man By Five Times August

Sad Little Man, a video by Five Times August, has as of Christmas Eve morn 2021, about 350 thousand views on YouTube.

How long will it stay up?

Anyway, watch it while you can.

Hat tip Bob Small.

Sad Little Man By Five Times August
Sad Little Man By Five Times August

BBC Proms Worth Clicking

BBC Proms Worth Clicking

By Bob Small

Normally, my articles tend toward the Political, in one or another ways. However we will be discussing a yearly musical phenomenon (first heard in 1895) and how you can now hear it for free.

BBC Proms Worth Clicking

The BBC Proms aka Henry Wood Promenade Concert presented by the BBC began in 1895 as both Classical and Popular Music Concerts designed, via low ticket prices and an informal atmosphere, to bring music to the masses.

Over the years, the eight-week festival morphed into jazz, world music and many etceteras. Because Britain is no longer an empire but now a Commonwealth, they use this, as BBC itself, as what they themselves call “soft power,” as opposed to the massive military force they once had.

To find the BBC Proms on your search engine of choice (I use Duck Duck Go, so as not to be searched myself.) to get to BBC Radio 3. Click on BBC Sounds or any other link but I Player. (I Player requires you to live in England,) Then you can choose your Concerts. As of this writing , most are still available for a month, the earliest ones expiring first. I listen sequentially, but that’s also how I read a book or watch a movie, whereas others choose by Composer or Conductor, whether Classical or Jazz. I now use my Smartphone, which seems to work easier for me on BBC Radio 3 BBC Proms.

The Last Night of the Proms has traditionally featured the Anthem “Rule Brittania”and other highly Patriotic songs. Lately, though, what might be termed the ‘Woke’ crowd has been protesting that, seeing this as inconsistent with the aims of the British Commonwealth, especially as Britannia no longer ‘rules the waves’ or anything else. (Possibly not even Scotland if they get another referendum.) Rather, the Proms, like BBC itself, is a form of soft power, witness the many people, self included, who listen to at least one BBC program daily.

Austin Forman Triggers Left

Austin Forman Triggers Left –The same unsigned story “debunking” Austin Forman’s internet sensation Pallets Full of Ballots is appearing on small blogs throughout the nation.

You can see it here and here and here and lots and lot of other places.

Austin Forman Triggers Left.
It’s a good song. Check it out here

We know because we are getting pingbacks as we are cited in the article. Apparently our comparison of Austin to Woody Guthrie did serious triggering. Frankly, we are going to walk it back. Austin is far more musically talented that Guthrie ever was and has a much better sense of humor.

It’s beyond weird to subject a poem, song or work of art to debunking. Art, by definition, is not meant to be literal. That such a shrill attempt is occurring is actually an indication of panic. You Democrats really have doubts Biden fairly won the election? Why, then, are you talking a song on the internet so seriously?

There are serious, objective, concerns by credible people of major flaws in the Nov. 3 election. They must be conclusively and fairly addressed for half the nation to respect a Biden presidency.

The real fear is that the cheating is unprecedented and goes beyond simple partisan game playing but involves adversarial foreign powers.

That’s what should be taken seriously. Honest liberals should not hand-wave this away.

Austin Forman Triggers Left.
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