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Originally Posted by dead_battery
Maybe if we can't have the kind of anger RATM had, we could still have a kind of disgusted anger that was aware of its own futility. Even that would be better than the sunshiney indie crap we've been barraged with ever since bands like RATM went into declin.
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The entire problem with RATM is after 1992 they weren't angry either! They gave into themselves, they collapsed under the fame like Nirvana did, but in a different way. You're right, its not just bands like Rage, in rap the Fugees became an early version of the Black Eyed Peas (i.e. a commercial piece of cultural shit), dead prez dropped off the radar and Killah Priest was so discouraged he went into a kind of monastic approach to underground rap scene.
It seems that the entirety of the 2000s has been one big, cosmic, fucking shoulder shrug. People were "pissed off" during the Bush era, but did it end the wars? Reduce the growing corruption? Empower the people? Obama is a symptom of our collective sigh of complacency. People have sincerely
adopted the, "Hey it could be worse, love it or leave it" cynical optimism.