why would i find this song offensive?

[deadair]

Pedro the Lion Backwoods Nation lyrics

[size=-1]Calling all rednecks
to put down their sluggards, turn their attention
from beating the buggers,
and pick up machine guns,
and kill camel-fuckers
backwoods nation

Calling all doctors
of spin and the smokescreen
to whip the new patriots
into a frenzy
of good versus evil,
ignoring the history
of the backwoods nation

Ain't it a shame,
when due process
Stands in the way, of swift
justice

Calling all frat boys
to trade in their hazing,
their keggers and cocaine
and casual date-raping
for cabinet appointments
and rose garden tapings
backwoods
backwoods
backwoods nation[/size]

 

[deadair]

i hope at least one of you will see my point on this one...



i think alex might

 

[lizard]

are any of you fellows frat brothers?

the lyrics seem to advocate a bushite neocon philosophy of jingoistic flag waving hysteria.

 

[deadair]

i understand what the lyrics are pointing too... that's not my problem with the song.

(i don't think anyone here was ever in a frat)

 

[lizard]

pls elaborate, after a suitable wait for others to weigh in.



actually the lyrics aren't bad, there is a slyness to them, all incorrectness aside.

 

[KingoftheSausages]

I've got problems with it because I was once dateraped by a redneck fraternity brother.

 

[avi]

it reads to me like stupid preaching-to-the-choir indierock snobbiness.

 

[deadair]

avi's getting closer...

Lizard - i will when, as you said, more people weigh in

 

[avi]

does it have to do with stupid indierockers trying to dress like rednecks?

 

[FrostGiant]

Evan eht Nioj!!!!

 

[xfer]

mesh hats, dude.

 

[kleo706]

A redneck married your cousin then divorced her to marry her daighter?

 

[deadair]

ok, here it is.

avi is partly right. it's totally "safe" for him to say what he said in the scene he is... no matter how offensive his approach.



also, the double standard which alows him to call all people who agree with the war as "rednecks" and the whole "frat boy" thing, without anyone speaking out against him. see, when the war started Travis from D-plan stated his pro-war beliefs (on his bands web site) and got railed for it. i just hate the idea that no matter how "wrong" something might be that's being said in the indie world, as long as it's the "in thing" to say you can get away with it.

 

[avi]

yeah, that's pretty much what I was thinking, but I was too retarded to be able to put it into words. I remember that d-plan debacle, read the original post and was like "dude is gonna get ridden on rail for that just because"



stupid

 

[FuSoYa]

Jesus I can't wait until I'm middle-aged.

 

[deadair]

like me?

 

[goatschool]

maybe i'm way off here, but

ignoring the history
of the backwoods nation

changes the shift of the song a bit?

 

[FuSoYa]

no, like nick

 

[FuSoYa]

joke nick.


i mean i can't wait until i'm at the age when my generational peers are people who don't care about posturing.

 

[FrostGiant]

I haven't cared about posture for a while. It's starting to kill my back though.