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Sexist frontmen

Post by Tero » Tue Nov 27, 2018 4:55 pm

It's a classic! I heard it live 2002
International disaster, gonna be a blaster
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)

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Re: Sexist frontmen

Post by Tero » Tue Nov 27, 2018 4:57 pm

Zappa collects underpants for a quilt. It was made. Colorado quilter made it out of the unwashed panties.
International disaster, gonna be a blaster
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)

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Post by DRSB » Tue Nov 27, 2018 5:56 pm

They all had groupies, you can't blame them for being unable to fend them off.

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Post by Tero » Tue Nov 27, 2018 6:07 pm

That would be sexy sidewomen. One pair made penis casts of many heroes:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/cynthia-plaster-caster
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Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)

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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Nov 27, 2018 7:54 pm

Robert Plant.

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Have you actually listened to his lyrics?
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Post by DRSB » Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:09 am

:shock: Pretty clear message: may white male supremacy reign!
With songs we praise a happy landing
On yet another virgin shore
Escape the old world
Embrace the new world
Out here the immigrant takes all

Across the plains and over mountains
Put plight to all who came before
They’re barely human
It’s time to move them
To let them kneel before the sword

Uneducate the noble savage
The great white father’s word is law
Subjugate them
To liberate them
The poison pen, the bloody sword
Robert Plant
New World

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Post by Hermit » Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:21 am

DRSB wrote:
Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:09 am
With songs we praise a happy landing
On yet another virgin shore
Escape the old world
Embrace the new world
Out here the immigrant takes all

Across the plains and over mountains
Put plight to all who came before
They’re barely human
It’s time to move them
To let them kneel before the sword

Uneducate the noble savage
The great white father’s word is law
Subjugate them
To liberate them
The poison pen, the bloody sword
Robert Plant
New World
If you detect sexism in this song, you have misread it in a most spectacular way.

"New World" is a comment on a recent history of conquest and submission. - Robert Plant
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould

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Post by DRSB » Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:48 am

May be. White male supremacy is always sexist.
Anyway, lyrics are about a lyrical hero, not about the singer. In literature you do not equate the lyrical hero of a poem to the poet.
The private life of a person says more about who they are. Look at what they do, not at what they say or sing.

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Post by Hermit » Wed Nov 28, 2018 7:03 am

DRSB wrote:
Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:48 am
The private life of a person says more about who they are. Look at what they do, not at what they say or sing.
Oh in that case I apologise for misunderstanding you. I was under the obviously mistaken impression that you cited the song's lyrics as an example of sexism.
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Post by DRSB » Wed Nov 28, 2018 7:36 am

Nope, this would be Socialist Realism.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:46 am

Cuba!
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Post by Tero » Wed Nov 28, 2018 1:10 pm

ELP! Greg Lake lyrics: he had ladies by the score! waiting by the door! He only had to slay the...to get the score!
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Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
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Re: Sexist frontmen

Post by DRSB » Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:36 pm

I still think you cannot judge a singer by his lyrics anymore than you can judge an actor by his roles. You don't want to send Nick Cave behind bars for the Murder Ballads!

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Re: Sexist frontmen

Post by Tero » Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:52 pm

But what if they wear a codpiece on stage? is it only to go with the lyrics?
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International disaster, gonna be a blaster
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)

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Re: Sexist frontmen

Post by DRSB » Wed Nov 28, 2018 2:59 pm

On stage they are impersonating some stage persona.

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