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Fallout Boy has our answer! by Quentin Beck 10/21/2007, 3:17am PDT
Zseni wrote:

There are measurably more niggers involved in metal than in indie rock, even though there were no black Vikings. (Even though lots of black people have unpleasant childhoods.)


You are on the right track. In the first third of their video for the song, "This ain't a scene" , Fallout Boy examines this phenomenon with a musical experiment. They surround themselves with a group of respected black rappers and begin singing "This ain't a scene." The song starts with a low, poppy level of rock, and the blacks respond indifferently. Things progress, and by the time of the "This ain't a scene" lyric, Fallout Boy have increased the rock to a modest level. You may mistake this step up in rock level for the chorus, like I did. At this standard level of rock, the blacks become repulsed and even make fun of the band.

Some people, like maybe the author of that slate article, would probably end the experiment there and conclude that blacks don't like music of this sort. Fallout Boy, perhaps for the sake of thoroughness, decides to increase the rock level even higher until they are, in my opinion, rocking out. A remarkable things happens: at this level of rock, the blacks approve! Encouraged, the band goes even further and rocks just a little bit harder by smashing some shit. However, this incredibly high level of rock is unacceptable to the blacks and Fallout Boy is thrown out.

Blacks responses to guitar music summarized below...

Hardly rocking - Rocking - Rocking out - RO€KING OUT!

Indifferent ----- scornful - pleased ------ furious

So the reason behind the lack of black guitary music becomes clear once we've identified this very precarious musical sweetspot for the black race. Who would run the gauntlet between scornful and furious when you can rap about how pretty girls and make everyone smile?
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Indie rock: awful because no niggers? by Zseni 10/16/2007, 7:29pm PDT NEW
    I was going to add something but you said it in the last paragraph. NT by Fullofkittens 10/16/2007, 7:55pm PDT NEW
    Just the word indie by induces bloodcurdling rage in me 10/16/2007, 9:51pm PDT NEW
        Fight the perceptions that empower the system! by Entropy Stew 10/17/2007, 1:04pm PDT NEW
            rage against the ratm NT by diet Coke/Grumah forever 10/17/2007, 6:39pm PDT NEW
    Where it's not derivative, it's boring. NT by Sander Cohen 10/17/2007, 6:31pm PDT NEW
        Where it's not BORING, it's obvious. NT by Sander Cohen 10/17/2007, 6:31pm PDT NEW
            Where it's not obvious, IT'S DAN NT by Sander Cohen 10/17/2007, 6:32pm PDT NEW
                GER NT by Sander Cohen 10/17/2007, 6:33pm PDT NEW
                    OUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS NT by Sander Cohen 10/17/2007, 6:33pm PDT NEW
                        SSSSSSSSS NT by Sander Cohen 10/17/2007, 6:45pm PDT NEW
    Fallout Boy has our answer! by Quentin Beck 10/21/2007, 3:17am PDT NEW
        Robotbuttons lives on in you! NT by <3 10/21/2007, 4:17pm PDT NEW
    I misread both this post title AND the New Yorker headline as "Indian" NT by You can understand, a Zseni post 10/21/2007, 11:49am PDT NEW
        Indian rockers wish they weren't niggers. by Quentin Beck 10/21/2007, 4:59pm PDT NEW
    This reviewer recently got fired from the LA Times by skip 05/21/2016, 9:27pm PDT NEW
        "Ethics in music journalism, amirite? lol!" NT by That anti-gg cunt who posts here 02/11/2018, 9:48am PST NEW
    Re: Indie rock: awful because no niggers? by Roop 06/14/2016, 4:35pm PDT NEW
 
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