I listen to probably a majority of communist songs though I really like Lyubeh (related to the soviet union but not communist), IU, Gfriend, TWICE, (don’t fucking judge me) miscellaneous klezmer bands, recently teresa teng, as well as various video game osts. (persona 4. yokai watch, etc.)
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Oops! *'06 😂
Yes if it’s just straight up glorification it’s a hard sell for me, also just not realistic IMO. “Hide the fear behind this here bravado…” damn man. That stings.
The pain is so deep. It is sort of political in a way for me because it makes me want to fight for a world where people aren’t living in such a hell. The pain of living this sort of life expressed by people like Vince or Kendrick (“DAMN” really stung me for a long time) or X (I know he’s a controversial figure and honestly he’s not some masterwork lyricist but his emotion is deep and the pain explored over such a versatile catalog…) or the like really makes my heart hurt, it makes me see the people in the project housing across the street or in the crisis centers or tumbleweeding across the streets and it fills me with such anger and sadness and a desire to help everybody. There’s been moments of my life where I would directly relate to such dark places and I would never wish that upon another human being and I am eternally grateful that I managed to escape (for now) with a lot of myself still intact.
Sorry if I’m being extra I just really am really passionate about this stuff.
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Yes, yes, yes. It’s like, there’s absolutely nothing fun about any of this. And if I look like I’m having fun doing this? It’s literally just bullshit stunting to keep up an image, aka to keep safe. Or just a grim sort of acceptance and celebration of this hell (something I would attribute to X, a quote from an interview of him, very simply: “I realized it’s not fun to be the villain.”).