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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
RATM brings up an interesting paradox, when you have a revolutionary message that needs to get to the masses, how do you avoid mass marketization, which is the inevitable result of mass distribution of anything? I mean, I think we can all agree that RATM didn't start out as some sell-out band, before they were signed that were just another pissed off political punk band like a hundred other punk bands in my collection.. but like Bob Marley that shit got big, and unlike Bob Marley those fuckers let it get to their heads and sold-out.
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The thing is, it's not a revolutionary message. Never has been, never will be. This is why RATM gall with me - the music isn't radical, the message isn't radical, the label is a major, none of them are fat or particularly ugly, they still use Zildijian and Fender. The X-factor winner is actually significantly less entrenched in the shit of the 'system', and RATM are meant to represent some sort of rebellion? I can understand for some teenagers my age, RATM were seminal. This is 2009, and it genuinely pains me to see grown adults regurgitating the same pathetic rhetoric that's forgiveable if you're a hormonal teen but genuinely, and politically, criminal from a grown adult.
EDIT: I meant 'people my age who were teenagers when RATM were first doing the rounds, which isn't entirely clear above.